BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. R. Ghosn DTSTART:20201105T140000 DTEND:20201105T144500 DTSTAMP:20260928T200403Z UID:5f04a8bd3a25a66daf550ad0264ce5dc3f04bc220adb969efb7fce59 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Rania Ghosn\n14:00 – 14:45 – Prof. Rania Ghosn\nAsso ciate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Boston\, USA\n\nTalk title:\nTerrarium of the Anthropocene\n\nAbstract:\nThe climat e crisis has brought large swaths of Earth––the crust\, oceans\, and a tmosphere––to public concerns and disciplinary thought. How might urba n and territorial design reckon with the scale\, complexities\, and interc onnectedness of the earth and of techno-environmental systems? “Terrariu m of the Anthropocene” charts how technological systems of fossil fuel e nergy have changed the earth\, and imagines ways of living with legacy geo graphies\, such as oil fields and landfills\, chemical leaks\, and constru ction debris\, on a damaged planet. The contemporary terrarium learns from the Victorian Wardian Case how to become conscious of the layers of matte r entombed in the Earth’s crust and the influence that they have in modi fying the surface of the planet. However\, while 19th century glass struct ure had encased a parcel of purified air for the lush miniature gardens to survive the coal-burning\, soot-particle\, smoke-infused environments of emerging industrial cities\, the contemporary terrarium reckons with the e nvironmental externalities that had been kept at bay––the body of geol ogical strata that we commonly refer to as the Anthropocene. The terrarium becomes a heuristic device that incorporates the artificial\, mutable\, d issonant and parasitic as components of environment\, design\, and politic s. The premise of this work\, and of the book Geostories more generally\, is that the design project—as expounded through drawings\, narratives\, and artifacts—can galvanize an essential shift towards public communicat ion that explicates climate change as it anticipates other possible worlds .\n\n\nShort bio:\nRania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of Design Earth with El Hadi Jazairy. Her research charts the territories of technological systems to reframe t he aesthetic and political concerns of urbanism in the age of climate chan ge. Ghosn is co-author of Geographies of Trash (2015) and Geostories: Anot her Architecture for the Environment (2018)\, and editor of New Geographie s 2: Landscapes of Energy (2010). Her essays and projects have been publis hed in Perspecta\, Volume\, Domus\, Avery Review\, Journal of Architectura l Education\, New Geographies\, ARQ\, San Rocco\, MONU\, Science Fiction S tudies\, Thresholds\, [bracket] and as chapters in edited anthologies on i nfrastructure\, energy\, and regionalism\, such as Architecture and Repres entation: The Arab City (Columbia GSAPP\, 2016)\, Energy Accounts: Archite ctural Representations of Energy\, Climate\, and the Future (Routledge\, 2 016)\, and Infrastructure Space (Ruby Press\, 2017). The work of Design Ea rth is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been exhibited in more than 10 countries at venues such as M atadero Madrid\, SFMOMA\; MAAT\, Lisbon\; Triennale Milano\; and the Venic e Architecture Biennale. Ghosn holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Ameri can University of Beirut\, a Master in Geography from University College L ondon\, and Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design.\n\n\n   LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84865773200 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR