#1: Stefano Boeri on the Sustainable City
Financial Crisis. Ecological Crisis. Mental Crisis. Our days are gloomy days. Yet all these crises present opportunities for a positive outcome as well. They could open the way to a fundamentally different way of social engineering, green planning and a new financial system. In the reshaping of our world after the crisis, a sustainable city is possible.
Stefano Boeri understands non-growth and human retreat as producing valuable urban eco-systems. Reforestation protects natural zones and green corridors shelter animals from the anthropocentric world. These potentially create new ways of exchange between wildlife and human beings, a new ethical order of urbanity.
Stefano Boeri (1956) is an architect, director of Boeri Studio and editor in chief of the international design and architecture magazine Abitare. Boeri teaches urban design at the Milan Polytechnic, he is visiting professor at the Harvard Design School and he is the founder of the research agency Multiplicity. With Rem Koolhaas he co-authored the immensely influential Mutations project. Boeri will share his visions on sustainable utopia and dystopia in an urban context. A story of how innovation and creativity may change the way we build, engage and live... for decades to come.
Free entry, reservation is necessary: maakbaarheid@partizanpublik.nl
Information on the Masters of Intervention series through:
http://maakbaarheid.blogspot.com
This series is part of the UvA/IIS minor Maakbaarheid in de Grote Stad (Social Engineering in the Amsterdam Metropolis)
Organisation:
Office for Social Engineering
Partners:
Instituut voor Interdisciplinaire Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam
Gemeente Amsterdam - Stadsdeel Noord
Gemeente Amsterdam - Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening
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