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Spring 2023 Lecture: Lydia Kallipoliti
February 6, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
No cost
Our Spring 2023 Lecture Series kicks off on Feb. 6, 2023, with Lydia Kallipoliti, an associate professor at the Cooper Union in New York. Kallipoliti will be presenting her lecture entitled “Our Dirty Footprint: Architecture in the age of extinction, entanglements and other bodies.”
This lecture seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes.
As described by Kallipoliti: Many people tend to think of human waste as a phantom material condition, relayed to the management of urban resources; yet it infiltrates the air and water we breathe. It is a matter intricately enmeshed with the “dirty” physiology of the body and is thus weaved into the ecology of habitation. While ecological systems of the postwar period portrayed the inhabitant as an indispensable part of building ecology, currently this image is dismissed. Environmental concerns promote a conservationist ethic and a list of cautionary daily practices of scarcity. Integrating the body’s dirty physiology in the ecology of habitation potentially reveals alternative scenarios for handling waste as a resource in the future of urban environments. This talk maps and redraws the affinities of the built environment as a product of many forces, translated into the tensions between products and by-products, production, and consumption and, finally, creation and decomposition.
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Can’t attend? Watch the livestreamed lecture.
The lecture is funded by the Robert B. Church Memorial Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, lectures are held in McCarty Auditorium in the Art + Architecture Building at 5:30 p.m. For last-minute changes to this event, check this page as well as the college’s Facebook page.
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