Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions
23 July - 8 October 2009
A series of four conversations exploring architectural responses to living in and with a future world. In association with, and programmed in response to, the Barbican exhibition Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet.
Futureproofing the City: ZEDfactory, Foster + Partners, R/E/D
23 July 2009 7.30pmA panel discussion on the ecological challenge facing urban settlements around the world. The first in a series of three conversations exploring architectural responses to living in and with a future world. In association with the Barbican exhibition; Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet.
2012Architecten - Superuse
20 August 2009 7.30pm2012's architecture of re-use, research and adaptation, presented by Jan Jongert of the Rotterdam based practice.
Economy of Means: James Wines/SITE
5 October 2009 6.30pmFrugality as inspiration, with president and founder of influential New York architecture, art and design practice, SITE; James Wines.
With and Against Nature: Michael Pawlyn and Hugh Broughton
8 October 2009 7.30pmVisionary designs for inhabiting the Antarctic and the Sahara.
