WHEN:
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
05:00 PM
WHERE:
Room 111, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Confronted with the climate crisis, many people fear the future and feel paralysed. Dystopian depictions of flooded cities dominate the media. But how can art and design help to regain hope and trigger action? An overview of people, places and projects that defy the despair. And a call to action to create more sustainable and inclusive future visions.
This event is hosted by MDes Risk & Resilience.
Pizza & refreshments will be provided.
Michiel van Iersel
Co-founder and Partner, Non-fiction Loeb Fellow 2019, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Michiel van Iersel works as an independent urbanist, curator, writer and teacher at the intersection of the arts, architecture, (urban) design, and heritage to support cities and places that are socially inclusive and sustainable.He cofounded Non-fiction, an Amsterdam-based collective interested in the creation of public values and engagement through artistic means and new rituals. The collective’s exhibitions and publications, research, projects, and events bring people and ideas closer together around such diverse topics as the future of heritage and the Post-Fossil City. Van Iersel is a tutor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy/Sandberg Institute and research fellow at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. He cofounded De Verdieping, a temporary project space for experimental culture, and the ongoing research project Failed Architecture, about architectural and urban failures around the world. He was curator of the 2016 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and recently cocurated Places of Hope, an exhibition for Leeuwarden-Friesland European Capital of Culture 2018.
