PANEL DISCUSSION
Public Space and Sustainable Development-- The Future of an Old City
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
Moderator:
Joel Towers, Associate Provost for Environmental Studies; Director, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School
Panelists:
- Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac, New York
- John Krieble, Director, Office of Sustainable Design, City of New York Department of Design and Construction
- Victoria Marshall, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, Urban Design Program
- Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Associate Professor, Parsons The New School of Design
As the distinction between commerce and leisure is increasingly blurred, public space has morphed into a structure that is semi-private, semi-governmental and facilitates both commerce and entertainment. Architects, artists and urban historians convene in this panel to consider how sustainable design has been deployed in contemporary public space through developers’ initiatives and government subsidies. What claims does the city stake on these new sites by fiscally supporting such developments? What is the client’s agenda in financing them? How does the public interact with spaces whose infrastructure is intrinsically linked to that of the larger community? Is that interdependency reflected in people’s interaction with each other?
Co-organized by The Tishman Environment and Design Center, the Department of Humanities, and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
Moderator:
Joel Towers, Associate Provost for Environmental Studies; Director, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School
Panelists:
- Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac, New York
- John Krieble, Director, Office of Sustainable Design, City of New York Department of Design and Construction
- Victoria Marshall, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, Urban Design Program
- Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Associate Professor, Parsons The New School of Design
As the distinction between commerce and leisure is increasingly blurred, public space has morphed into a structure that is semi-private, semi-governmental and facilitates both commerce and entertainment. Architects, artists and urban historians convene in this panel to consider how sustainable design has been deployed in contemporary public space through developers’ initiatives and government subsidies. What claims does the city stake on these new sites by fiscally supporting such developments? What is the client’s agenda in financing them? How does the public interact with spaces whose infrastructure is intrinsically linked to that of the larger community? Is that interdependency reflected in people’s interaction with each other?
Co-organized by The Tishman Environment and Design Center, the Department of Humanities, and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School.
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