A two-day symposium exploring the future of infrastructure and urbanization beyond the dogma of civil engineering and transportation planning. Presentations and panel discussions focus on the growing agency of ecology to propose responsive strategies that address the predominant challenges facing urban economies today including climate dynamics, carbon and nitrogen accumulation, population mobilities, and resource economies.
Drawing from an array of interrelated disciplines and practices, guest speakers include:
Kate Ascher, Happold Consulting
Public Works: The Subterranean Anatomy of a City
Sabine Barles, Université Paris 1, UMR Géographie-Cités
The Nitrogen Question: Urban metabolism and the making of urban landscape, 19th–21st century
Liz Barry, PLOTS – Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science Citizen Cartographies
Erle Ellis, Geography & Environmental Systems,
UMBC The Anthromes Project
Wendi Goldsmith, The Bioengineering Group
Ecological Enterprise Leadership
Jo Guldi, Harvard Society of Fellows
The Infrastructure State
Kevin S. Holden, US Army Corps of Engineers
Watershed Economics & Floodplain Politics
Peter del Tredici, Arnold Arboretum –
GSD Plants as Megastructure
Christophe Girot, ETH Zurich
Degrees of Precision
Eduardo Rico & Enriqueta Llabres, ARUP – Relational Urbanism
Urban Processes & Relational Modelling
Todd Shallat, Center for Idaho History and Politics, BSU
Building Infrastructure: Water, Science & Technology and the rise of the US Army Corps of Engineers
Kevin Shanley & Ying-Yu Hung, SWA – I.R.I.S.
Building Soft
Dirk Sijmons, TU Delft, HNS Landschapsarchitecten
The Metabolic Landscape
Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Infrastructure as Lived Experience
Dawn Wright, ESRI Chief Scientist & Oceanographer
Geodesigning Coastal and Ocean Space
