The Politics of Building a Climate Crisis
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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 Reclamation
Christina Shivers, Harvard University, Planning
10:20 a.m. Designing Canadian Resource Landscapes: Three Histories of Double Vision
Douglas Robb, University of British Columbia, Geography
10:40 a.m. Extractive Capitalist Worldbuilding: Van Ginkel Associates in the North
Jordan 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 1973
Paul Bouet, École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est, Architecture
12:50 p.m. Greenhouse in the Desert: Urban Agriculture and the Technologies of Environmental Management
Jessica Ngan, Princeton University, Architecture
1:10 p.m. Making Place in Times of Climate Change: Dirt, Ice and Magic in Hunza
Javairia 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
