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Fred Scharmen takes McHarg into Outer Space

 

Scharmen will discuss his new book "Space  Settlements" at 6:00 PM in Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall on Thursday, February 13. Register before seats fill up!

In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists—along with architects, urban planners, and artists—to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. This Summer Study was led by Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, whose work on this topic had previously been funded by countercultural icon Stewart Brand’s Point Foundation. Two painters, the artist and architect Rick Guidice and the planetary science illustrator Don Davis, created renderings for the project that would be widely circulated over the next years and decades and even included in testimony before a Congressional subcommittee. A product of its time, this work is nevertheless relevant to contemporary modes of thinking about architecture. Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.

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Krista Reimer's "The Aesthetics of Ecology and the Ecology of Aesthetics" challenges the primacy of ecological science in design, noting that "Whereas these theorists are working to see a world of related actors, landscape architecture in the picturesque tradition predominantly sees a world it acts in and on."
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Katie Pitstick's "Generation Climate Crisis" argues that "our current 'merit-based' power structures incentivize old leaders to select new leaders who look, think, speak, and act like them."
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Shannon Mattern's "Data Ecologies: A Green New Deal for Climate and Tech Reform"

In a wide-ranging talk aimed at merging the climate action and tech reform movements through the Green New Deal, Shannon Mattern delivered this lecture to a packed house of more than 200 people on Thursday, January 23rd.

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The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is an interdisciplinary think tank that brings environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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