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SUMMARY:Mercury Rising:  Architecture Beyond Greenwashing / ARCHIZOOM\, RI
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DTSTART:20230515T180000
DTEND:20230515T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T051547Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:ARCHITECTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK (ACAN) \nwith NAGY MAKHLOUF
  (ALICE lab)\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 Malterre-Barthes
 \, RIOT laboratory.\n\nARCHITECTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK (ACAN) \nwith NA
 GY MAKHLOUF (ALICE lab)\n\nAll the lecture are also broadcast 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 Su
 mmer\,” in Strictly Physical\, ed. Monrose (Universal Music Publishing A
 b\, Emi Music Publishing Denmark A/s\, Culture Technology Group Asia\, S M
  Entertainment Co Ltd\, Ctm Outlander Music Lp\, 2007).\nBecause it relies
  on extracted materials\, isn’t construction unsustainable by design? P
 ressure is increasing for the sector actors’ to diligently address the h
 arm caused by the built environment\, from new construction to usage and d
 emolition\, begging the question of whether real ‘sustainability’ in a
 rchitecture and planning is possible. For the industry\, the temptation is
  great to adopt strategies of simulated commitment instead of investing in
  actual change toward less emissions. NGOs have called out large companies
  for ‘low integrity’ pledges\, pointing at the systemic social\, polit
 ical\, and ecological injustice the built environment creates via material
 \, wealth\, culture\, and labor extractivism.1 \nWhile institutionalized 
 greenwashing hollowed the term ‘sustainability\,’ how do architects an
 d designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening univ
 ersalistic understanding of a ‘sustainability beneficial to all’? What
  emancipatory forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionized c
 onstruction modes? How to face the mistakes of the past and form new value
 s grounded in humility? In this lecture series\, we will discuss how the d
 iscipline of architecture corrects course in the face of a climate crisis 
 of unprecedented magnitude—beyond greenwashing.\n1. Silke Mooldijk\, Tho
 mas Day\, Sybrig Smit\, Eduardo Posada\, Frederic Hans\, Harry Fearnehough
 \, Aki Kachi\, and Takeshi Kuramochi Carsten Warnecke\, Niklas Höhne.\, C
 orporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022 (Cologne: New Climate Institu
 te\, 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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