Latest Past Events

Our Land: Local Action, Global Impact

Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27 Street , New York

FIT’s Ninth Annual FIT Sustainable Business and Design Conference.

This conference is free and open to the public.

Free

Oysters: A History of Limits and Possibilities

Threes Brewing 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn

This spring season the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is hosting a 4-part series examining the theme "Living Things in an Urban Ecosystem", where invited panelists bring their perspectives on the living infrastructure of New York City, provoking questions about our human and environmental relationships within an urban environment.

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

In 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