Global Design New York University: London Calling!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

At last, the moment we've all been waiting for, the carefully selected, brilliant minds of design, architecture, urban design, and landscape design, that will ignite our passion for beautifully intelligent solutions to GLOBAL problems, and take us somewhere, Elsewhere Envisioned.

And the GLOBAL Design NYU London 2012 participants are:

Aberrant

ACME

atmos

AWP

BIG

Biothing

BLOOM

Code: Architects / Eriksen + Skajaa

Creus and Carrasco

CUAC

David Kohn Architects

doxiadis+

Fantastic Norway

GroundLab

Haugen/Zohar

HHF

Jestico + Whiles

J. Mayer H.

LAVA

Mi5

MMW

NEA Studio

New Territories

Ordinary [Magnus Larsson & Alex Kaiser]

OSA_Office of Subversive Architecture

Rachel Armstrong

Raumlabor Berlin

Serie

SLA

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."

Sunday, August 26, 2012

London Calling!

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