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The COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES and CULTURE exhibition focuses on the design/artist community’s response to environmental urgency, using architectural models, design prototypes, drawings, and art to frame and advance this vitally important conversation. We will contrast and compare examples of design from central Europe to show efforts to find solutions for our current state of planetary peril. The practices and projects selected for this exhibition come from different disciplines and operate at multiple scales, in a range of forms—constructed works, materials and systems research, community development, and speculation. These diverse projects are joined by their shared focus on improving the health and well-being of our fragile planet and all of its occupants. Design will help to determine how we face our current and future collapse.

Berlin NYU at St. Agnes, Alexandrinenstraße 118

June 6-July 11, 2019. Exhibition Opening June 6 at 6pm

 

 

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.

 

NYU Gallatin faculty, students, and staff staged this CLIMATE ACTION in Washington Square Park.

We made a human heliostat to “shine the light” on three positive ways our university needs to change. We believe that 1) NYU should commit to using renewable energy for all our campus buildings, and to make all new buildings net zero energy; 2) climate education should be a core undergraduate requirement; and 3) NYU needs to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies. 

Director__Keith Miller
Producers__Louise Harpman, Peder Anker, Keith Miller, Mitchell Joachim
Actor__Priya Patel
Camera__Adam Golfer, Thomas Lau
Editor__Charles Chintzer Lai
Photography__Ivan Specht
Music__DJ Spooky
Production Assistants__Louisa Nolte, Rachel Stern