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SUMMARY:Mercury Rising:  Architecture Beyond Greenwashing / ARCHIZOOM\, RI
 OT
DTSTART:20230403T180000
DTEND:20230403T193000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061815Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:JENNIFER NEWSOM & TOM CARRUTHERS (Dream the Combine) \nwith 
 AMY PERKINS (Assemble)\nSuperonda Talks is a lecture series organised each
  semester by a laboratory at EPFL Architecture to open up discussion on a 
 particular research theme.\n\nA program proposed by Prof. Charlotte Malter
 re-Barthes\, RIOT laboratory.\n\nJENNIFER NEWSOM & TOM CARRUTHERS (Dream t
 he Combine) \nwith AMY PERKINS (Assemble)\n\nAll the lecture are also br
 oadcast live on Zoom.\nMeeting ID : 646 5060 5823\n\n“Hot\, hot\, hot\, 
 hot/ Hot\, hot\, hot\, hot”\n(Yeon Kim / Troelsen Thomas / Sigvardt Mikk
 el Remee\, “Hot Summer\,” in Strictly Physical\, ed. Monrose (Universa
 l Music Publishing Ab\, Emi Music Publishing Denmark A/s\, Culture Technol
 ogy Group Asia\, S M Entertainment Co Ltd\, Ctm Outlander Music Lp\, 2007)
 .\nBecause it relies on extracted materials\, isn’t construction unsusta
 inable by design? Pressure is increasing for the sector actors’ to dili
 gently address the harm caused by the built environment\, from new constru
 ction to usage and demolition\, begging the question of whether real ‘su
 stainability’ in architecture and planning is possible. For the industry
 \, the temptation is great to adopt strategies of simulated commitment ins
 tead of investing in actual change toward less emissions. NGOs have called
  out large companies for ‘low integrity’ pledges\, pointing at the sys
 temic social\, political\, and ecological injustice the built environment 
 creates via material\, wealth\, culture\, and labor extractivism.1 \nWhil
 e institutionalized greenwashing hollowed the term ‘sustainability\,’ 
 how do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy 
 of a flattening universalistic understanding of a ‘sustainability benefi
 cial to all’? What emancipatory forms of practice allow for accountable 
 and revolutionized construction modes? How to face the mistakes of the pas
 t and form new values grounded in humility? In this lecture series\, we wi
 ll discuss how the discipline of architecture corrects course in the face 
 of a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude—beyond greenwashing.\n1. 
 Silke Mooldijk\, Thomas Day\, Sybrig Smit\, Eduardo Posada\, Frederic Hans
 \, Harry Fearnehough\, Aki Kachi\, and Takeshi Kuramochi Carsten Warnecke\
 , Niklas Höhne.\, Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022 (Cologne:
  New 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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