What is the role of design in tending to a broken planet?
When is it appropriate for design to preserve extinct ecologies and
when is it necessary for design technologies to propose new ecologically sound, healthy futures?
Design Focus: Architecture, Urbanism
Concept Focus: Climate, Mannahatta


Week 2
Sept 16th



architecture, urban design, sustainability, water, restoration, solar, community, RETI Center, experimentation, future materials, ecology, Red Hook

Lecture:

Lecture and Field Trip:

Design for a Broken Planet:NYC

Visit the RETI Center floating Field Station barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Readings/Media:

Read “End of Earth – Death of the Sun,” “Exercises in Eco-Logic,” “Matrix of Knowledge” from Agnes Denes, The Human Argument

Read “Caring Architecture,” “Architecture and Care,” “Practicing Civic Ecology,” “Seeing and Acting” from Critical Care – Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet

Project:

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