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SUMMARY:Pressure Points: Risk - Sonia Seneviratne / RIOT\, MAS UTD
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DESCRIPTION:Sonia Seneviratne is a Full Professor in Land-Climate Dynamics
  at ETH Zurich\, with a focus on climate science and environmental physics
 . She conducts research on climate extremes such as droughts\, land-climat
 e processes\, and human-induced climate change\, based on climate modellin
 g and data analyses. Listed among the Highly Cited Researchers of Web of S
 cience (Clarivate) since 2014\, she was a Coordinating Lead Author and Lea
 d Author on several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan
 ge (IPCC)\, including the Special Report on Extreme Events\, the Special R
 eport on Global Warming of 1.5°C\, and the Sixth Assessment Report in 202
 1. Seneviratne has received the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysica
 l Union in 2013 and the Hans-Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Un
 ion. Since July 2023\, she serves as IPCC Working Group I Vice-Chair for t
 he seventh assessment cycle (2023–2030). Her most recent contribution\, 
 published in June 2026\, is the release of MESMER v1.0.0\, an open-source 
 climate model emulator she helped develop as part of her research group. I
 t reproduces the spatial climate patterns of complex Earth System Models\,
  including temperature and several climate-extreme indicators\, making det
 ailed climate information accessible to the wider research community.\n“
 To emphasize (...) dubious uses of risk is perverse\, a dirty way of talki
 ng about a\nclean scientific subject”\nMary Douglas\, Risk and Blame\, 3
 6.\n\nAs the baseline condition of so many territories shaped by extractiv
 e industries\, administrative delay\, and climatic instability\, risk is p
 revalent. Yet ecological risk—pollution\, fires\, floods\, heatwaves\, d
 roughts—is still presented as problems to be solved rather than conditio
 ns to be inhabited. This also speaks to an outsourcing of risk through ext
 ernalized consequences of spatial injustice. Banks\, developers\, material
  supply chains\, normative institutions\, subcontracting hierarchies —al
 l contend with calculated risk. This edition of Pressure Points asks us to
  unpack what it means to live with the risk\, how it is managed\, commodif
 ied\, quantified\, invented\, politicized\, instrumentalized\, tamed\, and
  to think\, design\, cohabitate intellectually and physically with it. The
  assembled guests should help us think and build literacy toward developin
 g tools for living within uncertain territories and futures. \n\nSonia Se
 neviratne\nMonday\, October 26\, 17:00 CET\n\nSonia Seneviratne is a Full 
 Professor in Land-Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich\, with a focus on climate
  science and environmental physics. She conducts research on climate extre
 mes such as droughts\, land-climate processes\, and human-induced climate 
 change\, based on climate modelling and data analyses. Listed among the Hi
 ghly Cited Researchers of Web of Science (Clarivate) since 2014\, she was 
 a Coordinating Lead Author and Lead Author on several reports of the Inter
 governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\, including the Special Report
  on Extreme Events\, the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C\, and 
 the Sixth Assessment Report in 2021. Seneviratne has received the Macelwan
 e Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2013 and the Hans-Oeschger Me
 dal of the European Geosciences Union. Since July 2023\, she serves as IPC
 C Working Group I Vice-Chair for the seventh assessment cycle (2023–2030
 ). Her most recent contribution\, published in June 2026\, is the release 
 of MESMER v1.0.0\, an open-source climate model emulator she helped develo
 p as part of her research group. It reproduces the spatial climate pattern
 s of complex Earth System Models\, including temperature and several clima
 te-extreme indicators\, making detailed climate information accessible to 
 the wider research community.\n\nRIOT (Research and Innovation on Territor
 y) is a laboratory engaged in pedagogy and research within the Institute o
 f Architecture (ENAC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology–EPFL\
 , led by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes with Elif Erez\, Flore Guichot\, Jerem
 y Ratib\, Summer Islam\, Antoine Iweins\, Kathy Kao\, Nathalie Marj\, Roma
 in Dubetier-Grenier\, Sylvie Clavel\, and Saira Mohammed. Believing that t
 he construction sector and design disciplines must pivot and wholeheartedl
 y engage in the current social and climatic urgencies by rewiring themselv
 es to face and repair the harm\, RIOT utilizes tactics and strategies to d
 ecarbonize\, decolonize\, and depatriarchalize space production–by desig
 n. \n\n 
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