Gretchen Bakke [ 5 JUN 2018 | Urban Design | 35:06 ] The Goethe-Institut and Speculative Life Cluster (Concordia University) Conference on Automated Environments at the Canadian Centre for Architecture on November 1, 2017. Gretchen Bach holds a PhD from
Musk vs Gary
Elon Musk [ 3 MAY 2017 | Urban Design | 40:50 ] Chris Anderson: In the next half hour or so, we’re going to spend some time exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like, which I
Nano Liquid Batteries
John Katsoudas [ 21 DEC 2016 | Energy Security ] We all know that burning gasoline for transportation contributes significantly to an oncoming global calamity – climate change. We also know that switching to electric vehicles – or EVs –
Backyard Forestry
Shubhendu Sharma [ 22 AUG 2016 | Urban Design | 9:12 ] This is a man-made forest. It can spread over acres and acres of area, or it could fit in a small space — as small as your house
Sustainable Urbanization
Parag Khanna [ 27 APR 2016 | Urban Design | 20:34 ] I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth. Think of the planet like a human body that we inhabit. The skeleton is the transportation
Shaping Neighborhoods
Theaster Gates [ 26 MAR 2015 | Urban Design ] I’m a potter, which seems like a fairly humble vocation. I know a lot about pots. I’ve spent about 15 years making them. One of the things that really excites
Rebuilding Detroit
Toni Griffin [ 16 DEC 2013 | Urban Design ] By 2010, Detroit had become the poster child for an American city in crisis. There was a housing collapse, an auto industry collapse, and the population had plummeted by 25
Microgrids
Gretchen Bakke [ 23 May 2013 | Urban Design | 12:37 ] Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University. Since about 2008 there has been a groundswell of intervention in the workings of what we now call
Creating Heat
Theaster Gates [ 6 MAR 2013 | Urban Design ] Good morning everybody. How you all doing? How many artists do we have out in the audience? Right on! Right on! How many people want to change the world? Right
Competitive Access
Susan Crawford [ 12 FEB 2013 | Urban Design | 25:35 ] You’ve heard me before quote one of my mentors who told his students that news is what people want to keep hidden –everything else is publicity. That’s why