The SDC Lecture Committee is privileged to invite you to “Ecological Design; Cohabiting the World” by Lydia Kallipoliti.
The indicators of climate change — greenhouse gas concentrations, rise in sea levels, ocean heat and acidification — are more than numbers. They are literally embedded in bodies and demonstrate how environments manifest themselves. Bodies are co-produced by and with the environment; they are not passive organisms inserted in a given, built, and measured context. In this light, understanding ecological design as care coincides with the idea of cohabiting the world, in which subjects of any kind, as mediums of ingestion and excretion, become the primal operators of the spaces that they inhabit, embracing labor and daily duties.
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology, and environmental politics. She is an associate professor and the director of the MSAAD Program at Columbia University GSAPP, as well as the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018) and Histories of Ecological Design (2024).
The lecture will be held on Monday, Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. at Goertzen Hall on the Pullman campus.
