The Politics of Building a Climate Crisis

Overview

Cornell University’s History of Architecture and Urbanism Society (HAUS) 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.

Schedule

Keynote Lecture

9–10 a.m.: Daniel A. Barber, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman, School of Design

Panel 1

10–10:20 a.m.: Reclamation by Design: Landscape Architecture and the Politics of Mined Land Reclamation by Christina Shivers, Harvard University, Planning

10:20–10:40 a.m.: Designing Canadian Resource Landscapes: Three Histories of Double Vision by Douglas Robb, University of British Columbia, Geography

10:40–11 a.m.: Extractive Capitalist Worldbuilding: Van Ginkel Associates in the North by Jordan Kinder, University of Alberta, Media Studies/English

11–11:15 a.m.: Response by Asya Ece Uzmay (HAUD)

11:15 a.m.–12 p.m.: Discussion

12–12:30 p.m.: Break

Panel 2

12:30–12:50 p.m.: From Decolonization to Environmentalism: The Shift of French Solar Architecture circa 1973 by Paul Bouet, École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est, Architecture

12:50–1:10 p.m.: Greenhouse in the Desert: Urban Agriculture and the Technologies of Environmental Management by Jessica Ngan, Princeton University, Architecture

1:10–1:30 p.m.: Making Place in Times of Climate Change: Dirt, Ice and Magic in Hunza by Javairia Shahid, Columbia University, History of Architecture

1:30–1:45 p.m.: Response by Michael Moynihan (HAUD)

1:45–2:30 p.m.: Discussion