Global Design New York University: Who's That There?

Monday, May 23, 2011

Who's That There?

Why it's none other than Susanne Wofford, Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, home of GDNYU!

And she's not the only one taking a peek. Passerby are stopping at our windows, perplexed by the absurdly intriguing models we're putting up for display. You too are encouraged to stop by! Come see us at NYU Gallatin, One Washington Place, New York, NY 10003.

Elsewhere Envisioned Opens MAY 25, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. Register now for this FREE groundbreaking event on our website: http://www.gdnyu.com/

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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."