DVPP hosted two public, intergenerational Sonoran Timequake events, one along the quarter-mile nature trail featuring petroglyphs and native desert habitat and the other inside the museum. The Sonoran Timequake reframed visitor experiences in relation to an ongoing journey of ingenuity unfolding in Deer Valley.

The relationships of local communities with Deer Valley have evolved over millenia as people produced food, harnessed energy, and managed water in the arid Sonoran landscape. Against the backdrop of the preserve’s remarkable rock imagery and archaeological history, the timequake invited visitors to examine contemporary challenges in wider relation to the enduring relationships. Exploring and reimagining how humans adapt to changing conditions can inspire new ways of thinking about both the present and the possible futures we shape.

Sonoran Photovoltaics Lab (SPV Lab) hosted three timequakes workshops for K-12 professional development. Teachers explored how constructing alternate pasts and possible futures position a agrivoltaics in wider relation to centuries-long evolution in food, energy, and water systems. 

By reimagining how humans adapt to changing conditions, Timequakes inspired teachers to contextualize students contributions to the SPV Lab program in relation to the past and possible futures unfolding in the Sonoran Desert.