New Geographies #2: LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY GSD Book Launch

Roundtable Discussion Followed by a Reception Organized by Rania Ghosn, Editor-in-Chief -Martin Felsen, IIT/Archeworks -Mark Jarzombek, Architecture, MIT -Sheila Jasanoff, Science and Technology Studies, Harvard -Ajantha Subramanian, Anthropology, Harvard Moderated by Hashim Sarkis, GSD, Harvard Copies of the journal will be available for sale at the event. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEW GEOGRAPHIES #2: LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain invisible because the creation of value in the oil regime has long externalized spatial costs, sliding them out of sight and away from design's agency. Contemporary environmental, political, and financial crises have brought energy once again to the forefront of design concerns. Rarely, however, do practices of sustainable designefficient building skins, islands of self-sufficiency, positive-energy machineaddress the spatiality of energy systems. Instead, they tend to emphasize a renewable/nonrenewable binary that associates environmental costs exclusively with the infrastructure of oil and overlooks the geographic imperative of all forms of energy. Volume 2 of New Geographies proposes to historicize and materialize the relations of energy and space, and map some of the physical, social, and representational geographies of oil, in particular. By making visible this infrastructure, Landscapes of Energy is an invitation to articulate design's environmental agency and its appropriate scales of intervention. Contributors to New Geographies #2 include: Ivan Illich, John May, Carola Hein, Gavin Bridge, Abdellatif Benachenhou, El Hadi Jazairy, Santiago del Hierro, Gary Leggett, Andrew Barry, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Geoffrey Thun, Kathy Velikov, Martin Melosi, Maria Kaika, Geoff Manaugh, Pierre Belanger, Kazys Varnelis, Robert Sumrell, Jean Robert, and Mirko Zardini. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New Geographies #2: LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY Editor-in-Chief: Rania Ghosn. Editorial Board: Gareth Doherty, El Hadi Jazairy, Stephen Ramos, Antonio Petrov, Neyran Turan. Advisory Board: Bruno Latour, Mohsen Mostafavi, Antoine Picon, Hashim Sarkis, Charles Waldheim. Editorial Advisor: Melissa Vaughn Graphic Design: Tomas Celizna and Daniel Harding. New Geographies is distributed by Harvard University Press. For more information visit: www.gsd.harvard.edu/newgeographies