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Comments Posted 05.25.11 | PERMALINK | PRINT | VIEW SLIDESHOW

Exhibition: Global Design NYU

New York University Hosts Global Design Event

Projects exhibited at Global Design NYU, clockwise from top left: SCAPE, Oystertecture; Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, Nauru Elegies; Terreform One/Planetary One, Homeway.

Opening May 25 at New York University, the exhibition and symposium Global Design NYU, organized by professors Peder Anker, Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim, addresses the ways in which global warming poses new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture and urban design communities.
 
One immediate response to global warming has been a turn toward energy-saving technologies, but the problem of scale has rarely been addressed. How can designers make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, the exhibition proposes a new GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design framework.

Gallery Show
May 25 – June 15, 2011

Exhibit Opening
May 25, 6 pm – 9 pm

Symposia
May 26, 9:30 am – 6:15 pm
June 10, 9:30 am – 6:15 pm

NYU Gallatin Gallery
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
One Washington Place
New York, NY

All events are free and open to the public. Advance registration for the symposia is encouraged. The gallery is open 9 am – 9 pm, Monday to Friday, and by appointment on weekends.

Forty designers and scholars will showcase their work and discuss the emerging GLOBAL design framework, with the aim of developing a design language that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. The initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat the separation between humans and the natural world.




Keynote speakers include architects Bjarke Ingels, BIG; Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, RUR Studio; and Hashim Sarkis and Sanford Kwinter, professors at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Additional presenters and speakers include Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, Work AC; Peder Anker, Nina Edwards Anker, nea Studio; Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca and Georgeen Theodore, Interboro Partners; Rachel Armstrong; Daniel Barber; Graham Burnett; Jimena Canales; Decker Yeadon; Evan Douglis; Marc Fornes, THEVERYMANY; Donna Goodman; Jeffrey Inaba; Mark Jarzombek; Natalie Jeremijenko; Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, Terreform 1; Lydia Kallipoliti; Ed Keller and Carla Leitao, AUM Studio; Axel Kilian; Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams, SIDL; Sanford Kwinter; Nancy Levinson; Jonathan Massey; Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky; Kate Orff, SCAPE; Chris Perry and Cathryn Dwyre, pneumastudio; Planetary ONE; Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, RUR; Francois Roche, R&Sie(n); Jason Rogenes, David Ruy and Karel Klein, Ruy Klein, Michael Silver, Richard Sommer, Scott Specht and Louise Harpman; Specht Harpman, Ioanna Theocharopoulou; Mason White and Lola Sheppard, Lateral Office; Adam Yarinsky and Steve Cassell, ARO.

For a full program and more information, see www.gdnyu.com. Places is a media partner of the GDNYU event series.

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