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  • AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)

    The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY, United States

    What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.

    In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draws inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

    Free

  • Deconstructing the High Line: A Public Symposium

    The New School 66 W.11th St., 5th floor , New York, NY, United States

    A public discussion on the High Line's role in regards to urban design, ecology, public works, and creative practice with scholarly opinion from urban studies, art, architecture, geography, and cultural analysts.

    Free

  • Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

    Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    With the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.

    But what is a Superfund exactly?

    This class will focus on citizen participation in the Superfund process and conclude with a discussion of current and future sites in the five boroughs.

    $10

  • United Nations Habitat: the City We Need

    Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United States

    How do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?

    Free

  • Public Space: Opportunities and challenges for Empowering Women

    Conference Room 1, United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United States

    While 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 States

    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

  • High Bridge: A New Beginning

    Hunter College, Room 714 Hunter West 68th Street and Lexington Avenue , New York, NY, United States

    The 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

  • Great New York City Buildings Few Guide Books Will Ever Mention

    Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn , NY, United States

    This class will look at buildings that you might pass without noticing, but which have their own rich history and significance in the New York City architectural vernacular.

    $10

  • Fueling Our Future: Blackout: Security and the Electric Grid

    New York University Center for Global Affairs 15 Barclay St , New York, NY, United States

    With seven billion people in the world (nine billion projected by 2050), many of whom live in rapidly developing countries, the need for modern technologies with their attendant energy demands is increasing at an exponential rate. Will it be possible to provide sufficient energy for this generation and the next? How will the energy race change global economies and politics?

    Join John Bradley, Associate VP, Sustainability, Energy and Technical Services, New York University for a conversation on the emerging solutions and threats facing the electricity distribution sector.

    Free

  • The Chlorine Revolution

    Join NYC H2O as Dr. Michael McGuire author of The Chlorine Revolution recounts the story of how chlorine first got introduced into municipal drinking water supplies.

    Free