Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies

Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies will reflect on the urgency to affect change in urbanization practices when confronted with the context of unviable "territorial ecologies," defined as spheres of sustainable interaction between humans and their environment. The guest speakers will shape an explicit understanding of different urban contexts examined via the lens of ecological viability and speculate open-ended alternative urban futures. Tuesday, April 10 at 6pm, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square Prior to the event, there will be a reception on the Alumni Roof Terrace at 5pm This event is free and open to the public Schedule: 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Reception Alumni Roof Terrace at 41 Cooper Square 6:00 -6:15 pm: WELCOME Anthony Vidler Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union Ambassador François Barras Consul General of Switzerland in New York Introduction | Lydia Kallipoliti (Conference Chair) Assistant Professor Adj. of Architecture | The Cooper Union Senior Associate | Cooper Union Institute of Sustainable Design 6:15-7:15 pm: LECTURES “The Architecture of Social Investment” | Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner - Urban-Think Tank Founders and directors of Urban-Think Tank and S.L.U.M. Lab (Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory) Chair for Architecture and Urbanism at the Swiss Institute of Technology [ETH Zurich], Zürich. “Technology and Urban Issues for Cities of the South” | Jean-Claude Bolay Director of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development. Professor at the Laboratory of Urban Sociology – EPFL, Lausanne. “Post Sustainable: The Future of Socio-Ecological Cities” | Mitchell Joachim Co-President of Terreform ONE and Partner at Planetary ONE Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture, Urban and Sustainable Design Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University 7:15-8:30PM : ROUND TABLE Moderator: Lydia Kallipoliti Carolina Barco Project Manager Sustainable Cities, IADB (Inter American Development Bank) Denise Hoffman Brandt Associate Professor, Director of Landscape Architecture Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York Grahame Shane Professor Adjunct, the Cooper Union & Columbia University Discussion with all participants Conclusions and Salutations | Kevin Bone Director | Cooper Union Institute of Sustainable Design Professor of Architecture |The Cooper Union This event is organized by the Cooper Union Institute of Sustainable Design in collaboration with International Institutional Affairs at ETH, Zurich and the UNESCO Chair for Technologies in Development at EPF Lausanne. It is made possible with the generous sponsorship of the Swiss Consulate in New York and the Swiss organizing institutions. http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/urban-planet-emerging-ecologies