Secrets of Brooklyn Bridge Park
What makes this park, a new jewel for New York City, so successful?
High Bridge: A New Beginning
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.
The Last Unknown Place in New York City: A Conversation with Christopher Payne and Michael Miscione
Photographer Christopher Payne will talk about his experience shooting North Brother Island and his new book on the topic. Come discover what New York City might look like without human influence, as Payne captures vegetation taking over buildings on North Brother Island. Historian Michael Miscione will also talk about the history of North Brother Island.
Emerging Voices: Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi; Neri Oxman
Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Public Space: Opportunities and challenges for Empowering Women
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
Emerging Voices: Brian Phillips; Roberto Rovira
A lecture featuring leaders in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism hosted by the Architectural League of New York.
United Nations Habitat: the City We Need
How do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?
Deconstructing the High Line: A Public Symposium
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.
Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen, China
Learn more about the history and space of “urban villages” in Shenzhen, China.
Sustainability Crash Course 2015
Imagine being able to spend one amazing day immersed in learning about sustainable design—and meeting the people who have pioneered new thinking and practices.
On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Pratt’s CSDS will present the fifth annual Sustainability Crash Course, a day-long series of workshops with a host of experts from Pratt’s sustainable design faculty and elsewhere.
Great New York City Buildings Few Guide Books Will Ever Mention
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.
A History of New York City Transportation – From Horsecars to Helicopters
By some estimates, for every New Yorker you see walking around on the streets, there’s one New Yorker underground, riding the train. That’s right – 1/2 of New York’s population is on some form of public transportation at any given moment.
This class covers NYC transportation from the early days, when the best you could hope for was a mud-spattered omnibus ride, through the first steam-powered elevated railroads, all the way up to the Pan Am building helicopter shuttle.
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)
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 draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.
On February 27 & 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)
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.
February Forum: Sustainable Transportation
A sustainable transportation system is one that is accessible, safe, environmentally-friendly, affordable, and can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs.
Come learn more about sustainable transportation at this free forum organized by GreenHomeNYC!
Inspirations for the Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Leading designer of Brooklyn Bridge Park shares inspirations in this free talk!
Women, Climate and Cities: : An Intersectional Perspective
This event will focus on women’s role in raising awareness as well as providing solutions to climate change issues specifically within the urban context.
Participants will examine what women have brought to the table in the climate movement as well as the specific benefits of having a gendered approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, namely, in terms of disaster risk recovery, green jobs and urban infrastructure such as public transport.
The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization and the American Institute for Architecture New York Chapter are co-organizing a high-level discussion, which will cover key developments in the area of sustainable urbanization, entitled “The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges”.
This event will bring together high-level experts and representatives from national and local governments, non-governmental organizations, academia, foundations and industry.