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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building: “Imagine if all of the resources currently funding the […]

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:13:10 -0500

“Imagine if all of the resources currently funding the world’s unnecessary cooling, heating, humidifying, and dehumidifying could be taken back and directed towards the things we most need and desire.”

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/after-comfort/624766/conservation-after-conditioning-part-2-letting-the-world-in/

e-flux.com

After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Mal Ahern - Conservation After Conditioning, Part 2: Letting the World In

Since the 1990s, conservation scientists have worried about AC’s carbon footprint and thus started to question this approach. Newer research suggests the flat, unchanging museum environment is likely unnecessary for many types of collections.

Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: Portugal's "Banco de Materias" Gotta love Rick Steves […]

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:51:53 -0400

Portugal’s “Banco de Materias” Gotta love Rick Steves and score another one for Southern European degrowth.

https://twitter.com/RickSteves/status/1839861921165783210

Portugal has a special love of glazed tiles — and if you own a protected house, you also own the responsibility of preserving its tiles. In Porto, there’s a warehouse for homeowners who need to replace a broken tile that's also a kind of museum. Join me at the “Bank of Materials” pic.twitter.com/WHaEH61jxG

— Rick Steves (@RickSteves) September 28, 2024

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “That plantain in the sidewalk: that’s also what it does […]

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:10:53 -0400

“That plantain in the sidewalk: that’s also what it does for the skin, it’s trying to repair that crack.” Lessons from herbalist and artist @Lyss Alyssa Dennis on the medicine of plants and how to begin to think and work between “the wounds of the earth, the wounds of the body.”

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: "From a coyote’s-eye view, you could see what the trees […]

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:01:49 -0400

“From a coyote’s-eye view, you could see what the trees were up to: Growth, failure, decay and the drip of acid water through the gravel were mixing a dirt out of the detritus. This hideous forest, I suddenly realized, was there to repair the damage done, and not at our bidding. Its intent was not to look good. Its intent was to stay alive, year…Read more

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Algal bloom on a corner of Lake Anna in Virginia. It’s […]

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:53:06 -0400

Algal bloom on a corner of Lake Anna in Virginia. It’s beautiful in a way, especially when the late afternoon sun catches the water and everything glows softly in green, stoking my imagination of a mutant ecology for fallen times. But it also represents a failure of ecological imagination, a symptom of the excess fertilizers and organic waste…

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building:

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:37:59 -0400

Jessie Croteau posted an update: Certainly! Here’s a more professional version of the […]

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:05:41 -0400

Certainly! Here’s a more professional version of the introduction:

Hi EDC Community!

I am excited to introduce myself as one of your new coordinators. I am currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, where I am working on a dissertation in political theory where I suggest deterioration is not inherently negative and that durability…

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “Recognizing how animals inhabit our cities is the first […]

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:28:19 -0400

“Recognizing how animals inhabit our cities is the first step toward reducing the harm these spaces create for animals, like the risk that architectural glass poses to birds.”

Great to see this piece about the course you also shared with us @rfadok…

theconversation.com

This anthropology course looks at building design from the standpoint of different species

Humans aren’t the only species to consider when constructing new buildings. This course teaches students to take animals into account as well.

Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my […]

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:21:06 -0400

I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my essay Dwelling in the Climate Emergency in its entirety.

In this brief essay, I want to sketch how developments in architecture and design are exploring what it is to dwell in the climate emergency. Dwelling is a term derived from Martin Heidegger (1971) and thus has inevitably…

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building: A chance to visit the elegant earth-inspired […]

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:45:54 -0400

A chance to visit the elegant earth-inspired buildings designed by Laurie Baker for the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, in 1971. More on his work here:

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/case-studies/a4760-centre-for-development-studies-by-laurie-baker-a-response-to-the-location/

Alaa Saad posted an update: The Association of African American Museums emphasises […]

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:28:28 -0400

The Association of African American Museums emphasises how damage from storms, flooding, and rising sea levels threatens cultural sites, calling for resources allocation..

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/07/black-museums-face-greater-peril-in-the-climate-crisis

theartnewspaper.com

Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis

The Association of African American Museums outlines heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including old infrastructure, coastal locations and lack of access to funds and resources

Anand Pandian: Just published in the Baltimore Beat: an op-ed that

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:48:02 -0400

Just published in the Baltimore Beat: an op-ed that @Chloe Ahmann and I wrote in support of the recent civil rights complaint filed by the South Baltimore Community Land Trust about the BRESCO incinerator in Baltimore, which we contextualize in relation to a long history of environmental discrimination in the city. “We can develop…

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OP-ED: The Fight Against Incineration is a Chance to Right Historic Wrongs

On May 29, the South Baltimore Community Land Trust filed a civil rights complaint with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The complaint charges the Baltimore City Department of Public Works with failing to mitigate the heavy environmental impact … Continue reading