Global Design New York University: Electric Is the New Green?

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Electric Is the New Green?

Geneva Motor Show 2011

From electric drive to high capacity batteries to hydrogen fuel cells, car companies around the world make their statement about driving green. Check out the slideshow. What do you think is the future of the car?

Toyota EV

Featured models:

Toyota EV
Range Rover Range e
Nissan Esflow
Toyota Yaris HSD
Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid
Renault Twizy
Rolls-Royce 102EX
MINI Cooper SD
Porsche Panamera S Hybrid
Smart Forspeed Concept

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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."

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Electric Is the New Green?

Toyota EV

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