Lands and Communities

¿SUSTAINABLE? - a symposium series

The LANDS AND COMMUNITIES Symposium is the first in a series of five symposia entitled ¿SUSTAINABLE? curated by Raffaella Colombo and hosted by metaLAB (at) Harvard. Composed of critical interventions, it promotes perspectives that deconstruct commonplaces and critically scrutinize claims of sustainability. The symposium series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners from institutions from around the world.
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Type
Seminar
Location
online
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Speakers

First Session 11:30 Am | 12:50 Pm [EST] Boston Time

Jeffrey Hou, Head of the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore
Sustainability of the Displaced?
Gary Hilderbrand, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard
Sustainability and Natural Intelligence
Machiel Van Dorst, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Resilient Communities versus Social Sustainability

Second Session 13:00 PM | 14:20 [EST] Boston Time

Maria Villalobos, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at IIT Chicago
Rooting Justice
Randall Mason, Chair of the Department of Historic Preservation at University of Pennsylvania
Conservation, not sustainability?
Stephen Gray, Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard
Sustainability and the Question of Power