Intertwined Environments is the series hosted by Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design, which discusses the natural, the physical and the digital realms in constructing environments that respond to current and future challenges. We are often unaware of the power of design and its effect on human behavior. Michael Leube and Elvira Muñoz consider the cultural impact of any project or intervention in our environment in order to ensure sustainable development. This space was produced by IE School of Architecture and Design, its Center for Sustainable Cities and urbanNext.net ..read more

For centuries, architecture and gender has been a silent debate but in the last decades there has been a very fruitful conversation about how design can have biased implications. This has awaken the need to find which strategies can lead to the building of more gender inclusive cities. Today we are going to talk with Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, director of the UNESCO Chair on Gender and professor of urban planning at Technical University of Madrid. Learn more about her work: https://urbannext.net/gender-sensitive-city/ This space has been sponsored by Actar Publishers and urbanNext.net ..read more

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is joined by Mariano Gomez Luque, Marcella Del Signore and Shawn Rickenbacker, whose work examines the role of architecture, technology, and politics, that give rise to accelerated capital and planetary conditions within the Nature of Enclosure. Learn more about Mariano Gomez Luque's work: https://actar.com/product/new-geographies-09/ https://urbannext.net/critical-ecologies-of-posthumanism/ https://officeforurbanization.org/mariano-gomez-luque/ Learn more about Marcella Del Signore's work: https://www.routledge.com/Data-Matter-Design-Strategies-in-Computational-Des ..read more

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is joined by Ersela Kripa, Stephen Mueller, Kathy Velikov and Neeraj Bhatia whose scholarly work interrogate the role of territory, border, and technology as it relates to the politics set within the Nature of Enclosure. Learn more about Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller's work: https://agencyarchitecture.com/ https://www.depts.ttu.edu/architecture/about/people/faculty/Kripa/index.php https://www.depts.ttu.edu/architecture/about/people/faculty/Mueller/index.php https://www.amazon.com/Fronts-Security-Developing-Ersela-Kripa/dp/1941806953 Learn more about Kathy Velikov's work: h ..read more

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is joined by Jordan Bimm, Aleksandra Jaeschke and Fred Scharmen to reflect on the cultural impact of the enclosure in architecture, landscape and aerospace history. Learn more about Jordan Bimm's work: https://www.academia.edu/37957384/Anticipating_the_Astronaut_Subject_Formation_in_Early_American_Space_Medicine_1949_1959 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/science/mars-jars-strughold.html Learn more about Aleksandra Jaeschke's work: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37546284 Learn more about Fred Scharmen's work: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/space-settlements/97819413324 ..read more

Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design. Alfredo is joined by Danika Cooper and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió to talk about indigenous practices in landscape design and how they can be crucial in tackling not only the climate emergency but also social injustice. The conversation is a follow-up on the article The Red Deal: Decolonising Climate Action published ..read more

Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design. Alfredo and Clara are joined by Billy Fleming and Douglas Spencer to discuss the role of the architecture profession in tackling climate change and social justice. The conversation is a follow-up on the article Crises and Contestations: The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal published in AD: https://on ..read more

Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design. Alfredo is joined by Neil Brenner and Kai Heron to discuss global environmental politics and inherited approaches to urbanization. The conversation is a follow-up on the article Towards the Abolition of the Hinterlands published in AD: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.2781 Learn more about Neil Brenne ..read more

Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design. Alfredo is joined by Alex Breedon, Liam Mouritz and Kaylie Salvatori to talk about how a decolonial cultural shift in land management can contribute to the mitigation of the climate crisis and the need to learn from design practices and knowledges from indigenous cultures in the Australian context. The conversation ..read more

Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design. Alfredo is joined by Amelia Horgan, Julian Siravo and Kate Soper to talk about the role of working models shape the landscape and its contribution to climate change. The conversation is a follow-up on the article Making Space for Green Work published in AD: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.2774 Learn ..read more