In a free, public event as part of Cooper Union x Climate Week, Elisa Iturbe, a critic at the Yale School of Architecture and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union, will be in conversation with Rania Ghosn, a founding partner of Design Earth and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning. They will explore the role of representation and speculative futures in architecture’s relationship to the climate crisis.

This event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

This event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

In their lecture Cooking Sections trace the construction of salmon—the colour of a wild fish, which is neither wild, nor fish (nor even salmon). Colour is a vector that composes forms, entwines species, and signals environmental changes. From the Isle of Skye, Cooking Sections document how industries are changing the planet’s metabolism, redefining the shades we live in, censoring our sensitivity to the Earth and its hues, while constructing new extractivist territories. Salmon usually feed on red-pink crustaceans, like shrimp and krill, making them metabolise the colour that tints salmon salmon. But farmed salmon have become [salmon], which are deprived of the substances that should otherwise salmon their bodies. 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

Ellie Abrons and Meredith Miller are co-founders of T+E+A+M, with Adam Fure and Thom Moran. T+E+A+M’s work centers on materiality, image, and environment. Their collaborative projects have been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and A+D Museum in Los Angeles, among other venues. T+E+A+M is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan where they are associate professors at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. For access link and information, please email mauricio.higuera@cooper.edu. 

You may read the curatorial statements for our lecture series and a list of all Fall 2020 Semester events and exhibitions here.

The student program offers an inside look at the architectural profession, highlighting the varied and creative career paths open to graduates of architecture school.

Panelists include Jerome Haferd, co-founder, BRANDT : HAFERD, Pascale Sablan, senior associate, S9 Architecture / founder and executive director, Beyond the Built Environment, Seb Choe, associate director, MIXdesign.

Advance registration is required. All registered participants will be sent a link to participate through Zoom. The program is free and open for current students. Please register with a .edu email address.

Posted Wednesday, September 2

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