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The Politics of Building a Climate Crisis
Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:00am
to 2:30pm
Virtual
The History of Architecture and Urbanism Society invites graduate students to participate in its Annual Research Ph.D. Symposium, which seeks to rethink architecture's historic role in the politics of climate change while reimagining interdisciplinary paths for addressing it. This year's inaugural symposium will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keynote
9:00 a.m. Daniel A. Barber, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman, School of Design
Panel 1
10:00 a.m. Reclamation by Design: Landscape Architecture and the Politics of Mined Land ReclamationChristina Shivers, Harvard University, Planning
10:20 a.m. Designing Canadian Resource Landscapes: Three Histories of Double VisionDouglas Robb, University of British Columbia, Geography
10:40 a.m. Extractive Capitalist Worldbuilding: Van Ginkel Associates in the NorthJordan Kinder, University of Alberta, Media Studies/English
11:00 a.m. Response
Asya Ece Uzmay, Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urban Development
11:15 a.m. Discussion
12:00 p.m. Break
Panel 2
12:30 p.m. From Decolonization to Environmentalism: The Shift of French Solar Architecture circa 1973Paul Bouet, École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est, Architecture
12:50 p.m. Greenhouse in the Desert: Urban Agriculture and the Technologies of Environmental ManagementJessica Ngan, Princeton University, Architecture
1:10 p.m. Making Place in Times of Climate Change: Dirt, Ice and Magic in HunzaJavairia Shahid, Columbia University, History of Architecture
1:30 p.m. Response
Michael Moynihan, Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urban Development
1:45 p.m. Discussion
Please register here for the symposium.
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