Global Design New York University: See the Show at The London Design Festival

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

See the Show at The London Design Festival

Global Design NYU or GDNYU is a five-city exhibition and speaker series entitled Elsewhere Envisioned that brings together leading architects, landscape architects, designers, urbanists, historians, and scientists to forge new links to address global climate concerns and to reformat architectural education. This year we will be exhibiting in London from 20 September - 20 October in partnership with New London Architecture at The Building Centre on Store Street.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Events and speaker series will take place throughout the one-month run of the show.

Opening times: Monday - Friday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM; Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Private view: Thursday, 20 September: 7:00 PM

THE BUILDING CENTRE

26 Store Street

WC1E 7BT

London

United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7636 4044

(Northern Line) Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central Lines), Euston Square (Circle, District and Metropolitan Lines) and Russell Square (Piccadilly Line)

http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/global-design-nyu-elsewhere-envisioned

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Marcus Williams8/08/2012 9:31 AM
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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."