Global Design New York University: TEDx Gallatin Art + Science

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

TEDx Gallatin Art + Science

TEDxGallatin Art+Science is a forum primarily featuring talks by NYU Gallatin Graduate Students. Individual talks will vary based on each student’s field of study but overall the event will explore ways art and science collide, intermingle and converge. We tend to think of “Art” and “Science” as separate categories when in fact they inform each other more than we might imagine. The speakers will focus on interdisciplinary ways in which the topics intersect in an effort to inspire more creative ways of thinking.

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MISSION

Global warming effects pose new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can the designer make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, we propose a new GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design initiative.

We seek a Global yet still Local design that can Open the sociopolitical Borders that all too often separate Architecture from its Landscape. The overreaching aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. We see environmental problems as a crisis of human alienation from the natural world, and our initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat the unfortunate separation. In our plea for proximity between the individual and the global we will explore, in the words of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a design that is "as close to the beyond as to things near" when we evoke "our power to imagine ourselves elsewhere."