Lydia Kallipoliti: Histories of Ecological Design

An Unfinished Encyclopedia
Vortrag in English

This talk will present conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel histories of their intellectual positions toward environmental thought from the 19th century to today. It will showcase that ecological design starts with the reconceptualization of the world as a complex system of flows. A main objective will be to decolonize notions of environmentalism and open the framework of the content to produce a historiography that also empowers historically disenfranchised environmental narratives. The scope is to enlarge our viewpoint on matters of environmental inequality and to augment the cultural and geographical disciplinary boundaries of the historiography of environmental design.