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Carolina Aragón is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the founder of Art for Public Good. Her creative scholarship blends artistry and transdisciplinary practices, bringing together research, craft, and community engagement to address environmental justice, public health, and climate change. By utilizing public art as a medium for climate communication, she experiments with innovative materials and participatory methods to improve public knowledge and collective action.
Her work has earned significant international recognition, including being named one of the 25 Creative Revolutionaries by the CODAworx organization in 2020 and receiving the International Climate Change Communication Award from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in 2021 for her FutureSHORELINE project. Aragón’s artwork has been featured in the Fifth National Climate Assessment, the World Bank’s Art of Resilience Exhibition, and the U.S. National Park Service’s 100 Years of Arts in the Parks video, among various other global venues