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ARCHITECTS and DESIGNERS TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING at LONDON EXHIBITION
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HOSTED by New London Architecture | FEATURED at The London Design Festival

“Energy-saving technologies are not enough to stem climate change,” says host group from NYU

A groundbreaking exhibition series explores how architecture and design can help reduce climate change and bridge the gap between people and the natural world.

“Elsewhere Envisioned” will draw more than 30 leading designers, architects, landscape architects, urbanists, historians, and scientists to London’s Building Centre from 20 September to 20 October, 2012.
Hosted by NLA - London's Centre for the Built Environment,

Free and open to the public!
On View: Drawings and physical models by leading architects and designers

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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."