All, see details below on this international conference at the UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Resilience, energy efficiency and sustainability in architecture, urban design and related disciplines. June 2020, London.
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Complexity and the City – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment
Themes: Resilience, energy efficiency and sustainability in relation to engineering, urbanism, architecture, communities, social change and economics.
Conference Dates: 17-19 June 2020
Abstract Submissions: 01 December 2019
http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/
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Outline:
The UN Environment Programme argues that we need to cut the world’s carbon emissions to zero by 2064. At the same time it is predicted that by 2050, sixty six per cent of the world’s population will be urbanized. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies several global cities in threat from rising sea levels in the coming decades, including: Guangzhou, China; Mumbai, India; Osaka, Japan; and New Orleans and New York City in the United States. This sits alongside estimates of the building industry’s contribution to world carbon emissions that reach as high as 30% worldwide – with figures on energy consumption in the region of 40%.
Given the scale of the design and construction industry’s contribution to global pollution, the continued boom in urban living and the anticipated need for costal retreat from sea line cities, it is fundamental that we address our design, planning and building practices. However, the question of sustainable and resilient design is not just an engineering or construction issue. Key to a sustainable future are also related social questions. The sustainability of communities are a basic component of life quality; badly planned developments bring unaffordable housing that fractures communities, poorly built infrastructure has effects of physical health, global property speculation disrupts cultures and their heritage.
All this has historical roots. By the early 1970s the Environmental Protection Agency had been set up and sustainable design was on the agenda of the United Nations. Jane Jacbos had published The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing complex was seen as the nadir of social housing and the Ronan Point disaster brought into doubt a future for prefabricated architecture in the UK.
Some fifty years after these historical landmarks, this conference asks how far engineering, infrastructural design and environmental modelling have come. It Also asks colleagues from other disciplines to explore how these advances have informed their areas of expertise: interior design, architecture, urbanism, environmental health, social and cultural attitudes and more.
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Presentation and Publication Details:
Pre-recorded and skype film presentation are available for delegates unable to attend in person. Pre-recorded presentations will be permanently available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfWS4KkYSauAaTV2pjrQlQ
Publishers include: Routledge Taylor&Francis, Intellect Books, Vernon Press, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Libri Publishing and UCL Press.
The conference is coordinated by City - University of London and PARADE (Publication and Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments) in collaboration with AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society).
More information:
http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/
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