ULWeek2017- [NO]Further- Towards the Edge of the Anthropocene

from Urban and Landscape Week 2017: [NO] FURTHER - Towards the Edge of the Anthropocene

by Polis Platform for Urbanism

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

II.FOREWORD

III.INTRODUCTION

IV.PERSPECTIVES

IV-A / CHRISTOPHE GIROT

IV-B / JAN WILLEM PETERSEN

IV-C / GODOFREDO PEREIRA

IV-D / COLIN WATERS

IV-E / SABINE MUELLER

IV-F / JAN JONGERT

IV-G / ADRIAN LAHOUD

IV-H / CLAUDIA PASQUERO

V.CONVERSATIONS 104

V-A / PANEL DISCUSSION I

106

V-B / PANEL DISCUSSION II

114

VI.MANIFESTO 122

VI-A / ENERGY PRODUCTION

126

VI-B / CIVIL WAR

130

VI-C / [IN]FORMAL SPRAWL

134

VI-D / RESOURCE EXTRACTION

138

VI-E / NATURAL DISASTER

142

VII.REFLECTIONS 146

THE SPEAKERS

CHRISTOPHE GIROT

Professor & Chair of Landscape Architecture, Architecture Department, ETH Zurich Founder & Principal, Atelier Girot

JAN WILLEM PETERSEN

Founder & Principal, Specialist Operations

GODOFREDO PEREIRA

Programme leader, MA Environmental Architecture, Royal College of Art London

COLIN WATERS

Honorary Professor, Department of Geology, University of Leicester Secretary, Anthropocene Working Group, International Commission on Stratigraphy

SABINE MUELLER

Professor of Urbanism, Oslo School of Architecture Founding partner, SMAQ

JAN JONGERT

Founding partner, Superuse Studios

ADRIAN LAHOUD

Dean, School of Architecture Royal College of Art London

CLAUDIA PASQUERO

Professor of Landscape Architecture, Universitat Innsbruck Co-founder & co-director, ecoLogicStudio Lecturer & Director, Urban Morphogenesis, Bartlett School of Architecture Senior Faculty, IAAC Barcelona Head Curator, bioTallinn, Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2017

IV-A / CHRISTOPHE GIROT

Professor & Chair of Landscape Architecture, Architecture Department, ETH Zurich. Founder & Principal, Atelier Girot

PROFILES.

As an academic, Girot’s focus is on the history and theory of Landscape Architecture. The emphasis of his practice is large scale landscape design and modelling along with new media in landscape analysis and perception.

IV-B / JAN WILLEM PETERSEN

Founder & Principal, Specialist Operations

PROFILES.

Spatial planner, architect and researcher engaged with developing multidisciplinary strategies and shaping processes that rebuild resilient urban landscapes in conflict-affected environments.

IV-C / GODOFREDO PEREIRA

Programme leader, MA Environmental Architecture, Royal College of Arts London

PROFILES.

Godofredo Pereira leads the Master in Environmental Architecture program at the Royal College of Arts, London and his doctoral thesis investigated political and territorial conflicts for underground resources in Venezuela and Chile.

Before the RCA, he taught at The Bartlett School of Architecture and was part of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene Curriculum & Campus, an interdisciplinary education and research platform that discusses the consequences of climate change for planetary architecture.

IV-D / COLIN WATERS

Honorary Professor, Department of Geology, University of Leicester Secretary, Anthropocene Working Group, International Commission on Stratigraphy

PROFILES.

Professor Colin Waters is a former Principal Scientific Officer at the British Geological Survey and currently holds an honorary Chair at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment. He is secretary of the Anthropocene Working Group, established by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, and is actively working in Anthropocene research. His main research focus is on the understanding of the nature and relationships of geological strata that accumulated during the Carboniferous (~360-300 million years ago) and Anthropocene (last 70 years to present).

IV-E / SABINE MUELLER

Professor of Urbanism, Oslo School of Architecture Founding partner, SMAQ

PROFILES.

Architect and urban designer, professor of Urbanism at AHO, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, cofounder and principal of SMAQ in Berlin.

IV-F / JAN JONGERT

Founding partner, Superuse Studios

PROFILES. Jan Jongert studied at TU Delft and graduated in 2003 from the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. Founder of Superuse Studios, an architecture office based in Rotterdam. Their innovative method considers design not as a linear process but as a continuous cycle of creation and re-creation, use and “super-use”. Superuse Studios strongly believes in the connection between society and nature and therefore, engage with methods and tools to make our society more sustainable.

IV-G / ADRIAN LAHOUD

Dean, School of Architecture, Royal College of Arts London

PROFILES.

Adrian Lahoud is Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London. Prior to his current role at the RCA he was director of the MA programme at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, a research fellow in the ERC-funded Forensic Architecture project, studio master for the Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the Architectural Association and director of the MA Urban Design program at the Bartlett, University College London.

IV-H / CLAUDIA PASQUERO

PROFILES.

After graduating from Turin Polytechnic in 2000, Pasquero participated in the EE Master programme at the Architectural Association and then worked with various offices such as Ushida Findlay Partnership and Erick Van Egerat Architects. In 2005 she co-founded ecoLogicStudio, which focuses on the interaction of design, biology, and technology.

Her experience ranges from practice to academia and apart from design projects, she has developed prototypes, installations and exhibitions shown at the London and Venice Biennales. In 2012 she co-authored the book “Systemic Architecture” which gathers the work of ecoLogicStudio and in 2017 she was the curator for the Tallinn Biennale, entitled bioTallinn. Pasquero is currently the director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at The Bartlett, a senior staff member at IAAC Barcelona working with digital fabrication and professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Innsbruck.