English: Climate Change and the Scales of Environment

Wood Auditorium

With the advent of accelerated climate change, designers must operate within known and unknown ecological and social conditions in the design of buildings or landscapes whose useful life exceeds contemporary parameters. How does a design profession balance resilience to the known risks in the short-term and adaptation to the often unknown risks in the long-term? This question raises the propositions for how climate science will be incorporated within expanding design services and the extent to which this represents professional and moral liabilities.

Radley Horton, Columbia University and Goddard Institute for Space Studies Adrian Lahoud, The Bartlett, University College London Kate Orff, Columbia University GSAPP and SCAPE

Photography by Ronald Yeung and Ranitri Weerasuriya