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April 1, 2021

The Right to Infrastructure

Danielle Purifoy and Louise Seamster present their conceptual framework for understanding black towns within extractive white space, highlighting questions of citizenship, extraction, and exclusion as they focus on how legal, spatial, racial, and economic systems structure black spaces’ access to infrastructure and facilitate environmental violence.

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A black and white illustration shows various components of "Blacktown" and "Whitetown."

Illustration by billy dee, originally published in Environmental Sociology

February 18, 2020

The Green New Deal: Shaping a Public Imagination

On February 18th, Kim Stanley Robinson spoke on ways of shaping public imaginations toward an embrace the Green New Deal, in conversation with architecture critic Kate Wagner and paleoceanographer Maureen Raymo, moderated by journalist Andrew Revkin.

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Exhibition: Exploring the Green New Deal’s relationship to society, policy, and the built environment

On Nov.17th a wide array of advocates, organizers, and elected officials gathered at the Queens Museum for “The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly” to explore the Green New Deal’s (GND) relationship to society, policy, and the built environment.

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Panels from "The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly" in the Queens Museum's Werwaiss Gallery (CJ Wang)


April 1, 2021

The Right to Infrastructure

July 30, 2020

Green Reconstruction Curricular Workshop

February 18, 2020

The Green New Deal: Shaping a Public Imagination

November 17, 2019

The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly

November 17, 2019

Exhibition: Exploring the Green New Deal’s relationship to society, policy, and the built environment

September 27, 2019

Public Works for a Green New Deal

September 13, 2019

Designing a Green New Deal

March 29, 2019

Democracy in Retreat? Master Planning in a Warming World

November 9, 2018

Unnatural Disaster: Infrastructure in Puerto Rico before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

October 19, 2018

It's Simple: Histories of Architecture and/for the Environment

April 14, 2018

Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Emergency Powers Workshop

April 13, 2018

The Decolonization of Design: Pierre Bélanger

April 13, 2018

Climate, Infrastructure, and Emergency Powers Workshop

March 28, 2018

Design Earth

March 23, 2018

Infrastructure and Emergency Powers Workshop, Michigan

February 22, 2018

Legacies of Emergency Management: Looking Back and Moving Forward

May 12, 2017

Infrastructure and Emergency Powers Workshop

April 6, 2017

New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson

February 9, 2017

The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert

November 29, 2016

Air Drifts

October 13, 2016

"Outlaw Territories" Book Launch and Discussion

April 15, 2016

Power and the Space of the Planet

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