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SUMMARY:Mercury Rising:  Architecture Beyond Greenwashing / ARCHIZOOM\, RI
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DTSTART:20230424T180000
DTEND:20230424T193000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:SARAH GRAHAM & MARC ANGÉLIL (AGPS) \nwith ALIA BENGANA (ALIC
 E lab)\nSuperonda Talks is a lecture series organised each semester by a l
 aboratory at EPFL Architecture to open up discussion on a particular resea
 rch theme.\n\nA program proposed by Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\, RIO
 T laboratory.\n\nSARAH GRAHAM & MARC ANGÉLIL (AGPS) \nwith ALIA BENGANA 
 (ALICE lab)\n\nAll the lecture are also broadcast live on Zoom.\nMeeting I
 D : 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 Music Publishing Ab\, Emi Musi
 c Publishing Denmark A/s\, Culture Technology Group Asia\, S M Entertainme
 nt Co Ltd\, Ctm Outlander Music Lp\, 2007).\nBecause it relies on extracte
 d materials\, isn’t construction unsustainable by design? Pressure is i
 ncreasing for the sector actors’ to diligently address the harm caused b
 y the built environment\, from new construction to usage and demolition\, 
 begging the question of whether real ‘sustainability’ in architecture 
 and planning is possible. For the industry\, the temptation is great to ad
 opt strategies of simulated commitment instead of investing in actual chan
 ge toward less emissions. NGOs have called out large companies for ‘low 
 integrity’ pledges\, pointing at the systemic social\, political\, and e
 cological injustice the built environment creates via material\, wealth\, 
 culture\, and labor extractivism.1 \nWhile institutionalized greenwashing
  hollowed the term ‘sustainability\,’ how do architects and designers 
 position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening universalistic u
 nderstanding of a ‘sustainability beneficial to all’? What emancipator
 y forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionized construction 
 modes? How to face the mistakes of the past and form new values grounded i
 n humility? In this lecture series\, we will discuss how the discipline of
  architecture corrects course in the face of a climate crisis of unprecede
 nted magnitude—beyond greenwashing.\n1. Silke Mooldijk\, Thomas Day\, Sy
 brig Smit\, Eduardo Posada\, Frederic Hans\, Harry Fearnehough\, Aki Kachi
 \, and Takeshi Kuramochi Carsten Warnecke\, Niklas Höhne.\, Corporate Cli
 mate 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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