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SUMMARY:Mercury Rising:  Architecture Beyond Greenwashing / ARCHIZOOM & RI
 OT lab
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DTEND:20230306T193000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:MERIEM CHABANI (New South) avec SUMMER ISLAM (Material Culture
 s)\nSuperonda Talks is a lecture series organised each semester by a labor
 atory at EPFL Architecture to open up discussion on a particular research 
 theme.\n\nA program proposed by Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\, RIOT la
 boratory.\n\nMERIEM CHABANI (New South) \nwith SUMMER ISLAM (Material Cu
 ltures)\nin collaboration with l’ASAR\n\nAll the lecture are also broad
 cast live on Zoom.\nMeeting ID : 646 5060 5823\n\n“Hot\, hot\, hot\, hot
 / Hot\, hot\, hot\, hot”\n(Yeon Kim / Troelsen Thomas / Sigvardt Mikkel 
 Remee\, “Hot Summer\,” in Strictly Physical\, ed. Monrose (Universal M
 usic Publishing Ab\, Emi Music Publishing Denmark A/s\, Culture Technology
  Group Asia\, S M Entertainment Co Ltd\, Ctm Outlander Music Lp\, 2007).\n
 Because it relies on extracted materials\, isn’t construction unsustaina
 ble by design? Pressure is increasing for the sector actors’ to diligen
 tly address the harm caused by the built environment\, from new constructi
 on to usage and demolition\, begging the question of whether real ‘susta
 inability’ in architecture and planning is possible. For the industry\, 
 the temptation is great to adopt strategies of simulated commitment instea
 d of investing in actual change toward less emissions. NGOs have called ou
 t large companies for ‘low integrity’ pledges\, pointing at the system
 ic social\, political\, and ecological injustice the built environment cre
 ates via material\, wealth\, culture\, and labor extractivism.1 \nWhile i
 nstitutionalized greenwashing hollowed the term ‘sustainability\,’ how
  do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of 
 a flattening universalistic understanding of a ‘sustainability beneficia
 l to all’? What emancipatory forms of practice allow for accountable and
  revolutionized construction modes? How to face the mistakes of the past a
 nd form new values grounded in humility? In this lecture series\, we will 
 discuss how the discipline of architecture corrects course in the face of 
 a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude—beyond greenwashing.\n1. Sil
 ke Mooldijk\, Thomas Day\, Sybrig Smit\, Eduardo Posada\, Frederic Hans\, 
 Harry Fearnehough\, Aki Kachi\, and Takeshi Kuramochi Carsten Warnecke\, N
 iklas Höhne.\, Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022 (Cologne: Ne
 w Climate Institute\, Carbon Market Watch\, 2022).
LOCATION:Espace d'exposition Archizoom https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%2012
 12 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64650605823
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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