On the tenth anniversary of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, the Druker Design Gallery exhibition Our Artificial Nature: Perspectives on Design for an Era of Environmental Change aims to situate emerging research within a history of design and solidify a dialogue around a new ecological paradigm. Carson Chan, Director, Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will engage GSD faculty in a conversation about past design speculations, current research, and practice.
The conversation will address the cultural, social, and technological processes emerging within design discourse that aim to address ecological imperatives. The event will call attention to the idea that design practice is the creation of the artificial, as well as the imagination of our constructed environment in a moment when our designed and natural worlds are fused. Both the event and exhibition aim to situate current research within a history of design for environmental change, framing new paradigms for environmental design.
This event is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). Free and open to the public in the Gund Hall Piper Auditorium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on November 16 from 6:30 – 8. For complete information visit www.gsd.harvard.edu
