COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES & CULTURE focuses on the design community’s response to environmental urgency, using architectural models, design prototypes, drawings, and videos to frame and advance this vitally important conversation. COLLAPSE is not a dystopian future-scape, but is in fact our “right now.” Global Design NYU believes that designers must initiate or join interdisciplinary efforts to find solutions for our current state of planetary peril.
The practices and projects selected for this exhibition come from a myriad of disciplines and operate at multiple scales, in a range of forms—constructed works, materials and systems research, community development, speculation, and philosophy. These projects are united by their shared focus on improving the health and well-being of our fragile planet. Global Design NYU is committed to advancing design discourses, research trajectories, and practices that will help to determine how we face our current and future planetary collapse.