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Location
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Event Website
https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-ii
Start Date
5-12-2019 9:15 AM
End Date
5-12-2019 10:30 AM
Document Type
Video
Description
The architectures have, to date, been somewhat inconsistent champions of just transitions for low carbon futures. Sustainable design, with its rather one-sided focus on deriving “lessons from nature”, has historically displayed limited interest in class, race, labor, gender, or broader power relations. Design schools and design professionals have regularly proclaimed that they can play a leadership role in building low carbon futures but then continually returned to “business as usual agendas”. The call for a Green New Deal, though, has raised hopes that more radicalized visions of architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture could be renewed, revitalized and reworked in more sophisticated ways. In this panel we will consider the extent to which new forms of public works for the public good in sustainable urbanism, green infrastructure and adaptive reuse could push back against green gentrification and green neo-liberalism. We will explore the ways in which labor struggles for just working conditions within architecture and design could ally and reinforce the call for a Green New Deal. We consider how architectural innovations with virtual reality could open up community engagements with sea level rise. Finally, we struggle with the extent to which the national imaginary of a Green New Deal can address the profound cross-border impacts and global design challenges posed by climate change.
Sponsored by the Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
File Type
mp4
Run Time
1 hr 37 min 37 sec
Speakers
Chair: Ijlal Muzaffar (RISD THAD/Global Arts and Culture Graduate Program Director)
Speakers:
- Billy Fleming (Ian L. McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania) “Design and the Green New Deal”
- Peggy Deamer (The Architecture Lobby, Yale University) “Labor, Architecture and the Green New Deal”
- Daniel Barber (School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania) “After Comfort”
- Liliane Wong (Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design) “Projecting Change: Extended Realities & Sea Level Rise”
Discussants:
- Amy Kulper (Department Head, Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design)
- Johanna Barthmaier-Payne (Department Head, Landscape Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design)
Climate Futures 2 | Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal, Session 1: Architectural Futures, Public Infrastructure + the Green New Deal
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
The architectures have, to date, been somewhat inconsistent champions of just transitions for low carbon futures. Sustainable design, with its rather one-sided focus on deriving “lessons from nature”, has historically displayed limited interest in class, race, labor, gender, or broader power relations. Design schools and design professionals have regularly proclaimed that they can play a leadership role in building low carbon futures but then continually returned to “business as usual agendas”. The call for a Green New Deal, though, has raised hopes that more radicalized visions of architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture could be renewed, revitalized and reworked in more sophisticated ways. In this panel we will consider the extent to which new forms of public works for the public good in sustainable urbanism, green infrastructure and adaptive reuse could push back against green gentrification and green neo-liberalism. We will explore the ways in which labor struggles for just working conditions within architecture and design could ally and reinforce the call for a Green New Deal. We consider how architectural innovations with virtual reality could open up community engagements with sea level rise. Finally, we struggle with the extent to which the national imaginary of a Green New Deal can address the profound cross-border impacts and global design challenges posed by climate change.
Sponsored by the Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_climatefutures/climatefutures2019/climatefutures2019symposium/2