Rethinking Practice: Climate, Equity, Labor

Rethinking Practice: Climate, Equity, Labor is a one-day conference organized by Alessandro Orsini, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. The symposium brings together practitioners, professors, community leaders, and students to support the idea that the architect’s community sits in society like others, opposing the insular position that architecture has held for a long time.

This conference is free and open to the public.

SCHEDULE

Introduction by Alessandro Orsini, co-founder of Architensions and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP

SESSION ONE – Climate, Equity, Labor
9 – 11 am, Wood Auditorium
This session includes a conversation about material extraction, alternative tectonic, adaptive reuse, and the environment.

SESSION TWO – Equity, Climate, Labor
11:15 – 1:15 pm, Wood Auditorium
This session includes conversation around race, social justice, and alternative approaches to design and planning.

SESSION THREE – Labor, Equity, Climate
2:15 – 4:15 pm, Avery 114
This session focuses on conversations about labor extraction and architecture as an essential condition needing a change.

This event content is equivalent to 6 AIA/CES total learning credits. Please contact events@arch.columbia.edu for more information.

https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3217-rethinking-practice-climate-equity-labor