The Built Environment

¿SUSTAINABLE? - a symposium series

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT symposium is the fourth in a series of five symposia entitled ¿SUSTAINABLE? curated by Raffaella Colombo and hosted by metaLAB (at) Harvard. Composed of critical interventions it promotes perspectives that deconstruct commonplaces and critically scrutinize claims of sustainability. The symposium series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners from institutions from around the world.
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Type
Seminar
Location
online
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Speakers
First Session 11:30 am (EST)

Li Xiangning, Vice President of Tongji University; Professor of History, Theory, and Criticism
Building for Biodiversity
Mark Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
No Miracles Needed: How to Transition the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy for Everything
Ellen Van Bueren, Vice-Dean TU Delft; Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment; Head of the Management in the Built Environment Department
Susatainability: From Design Heuristics to Moral Choice Through Design

Second Session 13:00 (EST)

Marc Tsurumaki, Director of the Master of Architecture Program at Columbia University and Professor of Professional Practice
Biogenic Tectonics
Federico Pompignoli, founder PMP Architecture and former Project Leader OMA\ Koolhaas
Unsustainable
Deane Alan Simpson, Head of Program in Urbanism and Societal Change at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture; Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and Planning
Unbounded Sustainability