PRODUCING WASTE / PRODUCING SPACE
Saturday, Mar 7, 20156 PMEDT
| Princeton University School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium Princeton, NJ
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The production of waste and the production of space go hand in hand. The design of urban space has historically produced a considerable amount of waste, ranging from wastelands to the material detritus of consumption and urban development. The transport and disposal of waste, in turn, has produced important ideas and practices about the design and construction of space. Yet despite waste’s centrality to the design and imagination of cities, it is today understood as a largely technical problem about the management of its disappearance. If waste was for much of the twentieth century a marginal topic for design discourse, recent scholarship and experimentation in architecture and the arts question the terms of its disappearance from the urban landscape and its segregation from critical debate. They acknowledge its immutable presence as something that we increasingly design and think with. The symposium will bring together scholars engaging in innovative research on the origins, meanings and repercussions of waste landscapes in conversation with artists and architects conducting design research and interventions in spaces designated as waste or wasted. The symposium seeks to locate points of intersection between the study of waste and strategies for waste in space. Full schedule at: http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/ Producing Waste/Producing Space is organized by Mariana Mogilevich (Princeton-Mellon Fellow) and Curt Gambetta (PhD Student, School of Architecture), and sponsored by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities.
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