New Visions of the Multispecies City

What tools and modes of thinking challenge anthropocentric perspectives of the city? This lecture series explores new approaches to understanding, visualizing and designing for urban biodiversity. Architects, artists, and technologists will discuss innovative methods for integrating wildlife and human habitats.  

Ariane Lourie Harrison, PhD, AIA is a Principal and co-founder of Harrison Atelier (HAT) and a registered architect in New York State. She is the Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Urban Design at the Graduate School of Architecture, Pratt Institute and is a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture where she has taught since 2006, as well as at the Weitzman School of Design. HAT’s work on multi-species design has been internationally recognized, selected for the Barcelona Architecture Festival (2023), and awarded for Hempcrete Habitats (2022 Global Architecture and Design Award) and Pollinators Pavilion (2021 AIANY Design Awards). AB Princeton, M Arch GSAPP, Columbia, PhD NYU. Current projects include a hempcrete Pollinators Habitat at The Bee Conservancy on Governors Island, NY. Her projects and writing explore the concepts and realities of making architecture for multiple species, from her anthology Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Routledge, 2013) to “Feral Architecture,” in Aesthetics Equals Politics (MIT Press, 2019); “Holes” in Ambiguous Territory (Actar, 2020); “Feral Surfaces” in Future Offices (Actar 2023) and “Building Envelopes as Multi-species Habitats,” AD Posthuman Architecture (2023). Ariane's lecture is titled "Feral Surfaces: building biodiverse urbanism".