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Liberatory Aesthetics for a Just Transition? pan­el discussion

presented by Anastasiia Raina, Nicholas Pevzner, Paula Gaetano Adi, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Yuriko Saito

This pan­el is sup­posed to be about joy­ful, lib­er­a­to­ry aes­thet­ics. So what do we need to devel­op in order to advance that con­ver­sa­tion? What kind of non-white,non-Anglo,decolonial aes­thet­ics and imag­i­nar­ies are need­ed today for this polit­i­cal moment?

Beyond Biocentricity in Design & Pedagogy

presented by Anastasiia Raina

Today, we will exam­ine the his­tor­i­cal and philo­soph­i­cal roots of bio­cen­trism, bio­mimicry, explore the qual­i­ty of the rela­tion­ship it pre­sup­pos­es with nature, and ques­tion its ecofriend­li­ness. We will intro­duce emerg­ing alter­na­tives to bio­mimicry and dis­cuss the chal­lenges it promises. 

Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial

presented by Priscilla Solis Ybarra

This is a pan­el that pro­pos­es to talk about lib­er­a­to­ry, joy­ful aes­thet­ics. And if you’ve tak­en the time to read the Green New Deal, it does­n’t real­ly take a lot of care to appeal to us in an aes­thet­ic way, right. It’s a bureau­crat­ic doc­u­ment. But we’re chal­lenged here to talk about cul­tur­al pol­i­tics and the Green New Deal, or what Damian said this morn­ing, how does that pol­i­tics feel and entice?

Liberatory Ecotechnologies, Cyborg Ecologies and the Green New Deal pan­el discussion

presented by Kai Bosworth, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sophie Lewis

One of the things that’s real­ly dif­fi­cult about scale is pre­cise­ly this ques­tion of how do dif­fer­ent col­lec­tives inter­face with each oth­er and inter­face as part of one another.

Design Justice for the Green New Deal

presented by Sasha Costanza-Chock

What I want to share is one way of think­ing about how we’re going to design and build the tech­nolo­gies and the sociotech­ni­cal sys­tems that we need for a Green New Deal, if such a thing is what we do want to build. And what that could look like through the lens of this com­mu­ni­ty of prac­ti­tion­ers that I’m part of, which is the Design Justice Network. 

Designing Energy Transformation: From the Modern Infrastructure Ideal to Liberatory Technologies

presented by Kai Bosworth

When you actu­al­ly look at infra­struc­ture sys­tems from the per­spec­tive of the Global South, they’re much more hybrid, pre­car­i­ous, amenable to polit­i­cal and social trans­for­ma­tion. And I want to maybe flip this and say hey, if we actu­al­ly look at the infra­struc­ture sys­tems of renew­able ener­gies in North America this might also be the case.

Cyborg Ecosocialism + Gendered Labor + the Green New Deal

presented by Alyssa Battistoni

I think it’ll prob­a­bly come as no sur­prise to any­one here that there have been ten­sions between labor and envi­ron­ment since at least the 1970s. And this is a major prob­lem we think for the cli­mate move­ment and for any sort of move­ment for a Green New Deal to solve.

Racial Capitalism, Designs for Energy Transition and the Green New Deal

presented by Jacqui Patterson, Myles Lennon, Shalanda H. Baker

The his­tor­i­cal under­stand­ing that there was no cap­i­tal before racial­iza­tion is real­ly impor­tant for tend­ing to the extrac­tive fos­sil fuel lega­cies that we’re try­ing to unearth today with the Green New Deal and just tran­si­tion work in so many ways.

Architectural Futures, Public Infrastructure + The Green New Deal pan­el discussion

presented by Amy Kulper, Billy Fleming, Daniel A. Barber, Johanna Barthmaier-Payne, Liliane Wong, Peggy Deamer

Latour spent his career, or has spent his career argu­ing that sci­en­tif­ic facts need to be seen as a prod­uct of sci­en­tif­ic inquiry. In his terms that they’re net­worked, mean­ing that they stood or fell not on their strength or inher­ent verac­i­ty but on the strength of the insti­tu­tions and prac­tices that pro­duced them. And so, in a pan­el ses­sion that’s dis­cussing archi­tec­tur­al futures, I wan­na ask how we can address roles of our insti­tu­tions and prac­tices in shap­ing these future realities.

Projecting Change
Extended Realities & Sea Level Rise

presented by Liliane Wong

Projecting Change was part our post-professional MA in Adaptive Reuse pro­gram. It was inspired by the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which turned Newport, Rhode Island into a lake.

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