The Energy Issues: Adrian Lahoud

The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue
The Energy Issues Panel Discussion
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 Issues panel brought together a diverse group of architects and academics along with a filmmaker and a journalist to each present an idea on energy through his or her particular lens. Each short presentation invited response and conversation from the panel, allowing the themes of economics and investment, engagement and practice, design and technology, and communication and ethics, to emerge through the issue of energy.

In this segment, Adrian Lahoud addresses the geopolitics of climate change, in which a climate action in one place triggers widespread effects in another part of the world. He highlights the massive inequity between the spaces of consumption and the spaces of repercussion, saying, “We’re not all in it together.” The panel conversation emphasizes the need for an emotional connection to our consumption, so that we feel the consequences of our choices even if we never directly experience them.

Lahoud leads the Master of Architecture (Urban Design) program at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and is part of the organizing committee for Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s forthcoming Anthropocene Curriculum.

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.

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