Planning in Silence: The Challenge of Hybrid Water Provision
Avery Hall, Rm 114 Columbia University (116 St. and Bway), New York, NY, United StatesA look at urban water reform in African countries from the perspective of its users.
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Edge Sustainability: The Future of Architecture in a Changing Climate
The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will explore how architecture must undergo a paradigm shift in order to respond to climate change and address the ambitious 80 by 50 plan set to mitigate it by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Freshkills Park Series: Planning and Designing the Park
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.
Learn about the planning process and conceptual design that NYC Parks is making a reality in this talk by Freshkills Park Manager for Programs, Arts and Grants, Mariel Villere.
$8
Museum of the City of New York: Soundscape New York – Opening Reception and Conversation
Donald Albrecht, MCNY curator of Architecture and Design, joins writer Tony Hiss to speak on the Museum's new exhibit on the soundscapes of iconic Manhattan sites such as Grand Central Terminal and the 42nd Street Public Library.
Free
Recycle-To-Art
Poe Park Visitor Center 2640 Grand Concourse, BronxHave fun turning discarded materials into usable works of art in this free, family-friendly event.
Free
Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Ethical Issues in Responding to a Global Disease Crisis – Ebola and Beyond
Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Satow Room 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThis session explores the ethical issues in dealing with infectious disease threats in a global environment. Issues from the current Ebola crisis are explored to understand the nature of these issues, and to generate lessons to guide future responses.
Free
Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: City Politics and Sustainability
Havemeyer Hall Room 209, Columbia University Morningside Campus 3000 Broadway, New York , NY, United StatesA lecture given by Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability in the City of Philadelphia on the strategies of implementing successful urban sustainability programs in the face of political and fiscal obstacles.
United Nations Habitat: the City We Need
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United StatesHow do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?
Free
Emerging Voices: Brian Phillips; Roberto Rovira
Scholastic Auditorium 557 Broadway, New York, NYA lecture featuring leaders in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism hosted by the Architectural League of New York.
$10
Public Space: Opportunities and challenges for Empowering Women
Conference Room 1, United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWhile access to public spaces in cities is highly contested for due to pressures from rapid urbanization and large-scale migration, creating public spaces that cater to women's needs and skills can give them an oft-missing space of their own to set up a business, network and interact with other members of the community to exchange ideas and information
Free
From the Right to Light to the Right Lights
The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn this public program, speakers will present lighting design work for public interest that range from ongoing projects in informal settlements in Haiti to participatory workshops in low-income housing environments.
In a panel following the presentations, speakers will debate the role that socially-engaged lighting design practices play and how lighting education can support a stronger social culture in practice and discourse in the field of lighting design
Free
High Bridge: A New Beginning
Hunter College, Room 714 Hunter West 68th Street and Lexington Avenue , New York, NY, United StatesThe High Bridge is slated to reopen as a walkway in summer 2015. Come hear Bryan Diffley, the Project Manager of the renovation, speak about NYC's oldest standing bridge.
Free