The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue
Panel: Marshall Cox, Rosalie Genevro, Kate Gordon, Jeremy Leggett, Deirdre Lord, Mark Wigley
Recorded May 10, 2014
The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue was a symposium on energy and architecture organized by The Architectural League and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in May 2014.
The Energy Entrepreneurship panel focused on two start-ups, The Megawatt Hour and Radiator Labs, and their innovation in the energy sector. The founders of these companies are in conversation with Jeremy Leggett, Kate Gordon, and Rosalie Genevro, participants from earlier in the day, as well as Mark Wigley, former Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
The day’s closing conversation touches on two repeated themes from earlier discussions: the need for increased social consciousness regarding climate issues — and the promise of younger generations in this regard — and the dominating role of capitalism and corporations in the narrative on energy use.
The Five Thousand Pound Life (5KL) is an initiative of The Architectural League on new ways of thinking, talking, and acting on architecture, climate change, and our economic future.
The Energy Issue is a GSAPP initiative to make energy a cultural issue, launched in partnership with Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®. Follow the initiative @theenergyissue.
source
