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A Cultural Response to Climate Change September 30–December 15, 2011 All events take place in the gallery unless otherwise indicated. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery

Parsons The New School for Design 2 W. 13 Street, Ground Floor Open daily 12:00–6:00 p.m. and D until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays Admission is free www.newschool.edu/sjdc INTRODUCTION CONTENTS

These days, breezy conversations by the dating play. We’ll look at climate change in PANELS & CONVERSATIONS elevator about the weather soon dip into cities across the world as well as what could doldrums of worry about climate. It’s raining happen on our own Gowanus. We’ll learn Conversation with the Curators: David Buckland and Chris Wainwright 2 again and it’s been a sodden summer. We about Asia’s mega-deltas, everyday religion What Ifs: Climate Change and Creative Agency 2 find we know what flood zone we live in. and climate change in the Himalayas, the Climate Change: Art, Activism, and Research 4 Upstate farms have been ravaged, making waterlines of Venice, and Antarctica. We’ll Under Water: Climate Change, Insurance Risk, and New York Real Estate 5 our neighborhood greenmarkets places of listen to a musical performance of this What Insects Tell Us: A Conversation between David Dunn and Hugh Raffles 5 strange melancholy. We’re anxious about our clement world and also to what insects tell us. Southern Discomforts: A Focus on Antarctica 6 tap water and perplexed by spurious choices Students are invited to participate in a video between clean energy and clean water. contest and our radio students at WNSR will PERFORMANCES Into this comes U-n-f-o-l-d, an exhibition by direct a program from the gallery that deals artists inspired by some of the most remote, with these issues. New York Mud Pies or A Taste of Climate Change: Urban Reforestation in NYC 8 desolate, and beautiful places in the world This Clement World 9 whose faraway splendor we count on when If the exhibition is the dinner—rich, full, dense, we despair of things near and close. These and varied—these programs are the con- SYMPOSIA are no longer refuges however, their ice and versations for which one lingers after—well Rethinking Everyday Religion and Climate Change in the Himalayas 11 forests linked to our ways of living by ties fuelled, freewheeling, and fanciful. You want Water, Culture, and Climate Change 11 more weighty than reverie. to be there. And yet, it is precisely because of the centrality of reverie and myth in the relation- —Radhika Subramaniam SPECIAL EVENTS ships we have to these places, and to places New York Book Launch and Reception: Climate Change and Cities 13 even more trodden that allows us to stake Climate Change Art/Science Dating Game 13 a claim for the role of the creative voice in dealing with environmental crises. The BROWN BAGS: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS images, stories, and sounds that the artists of U-n-f-o-l-d bring into the gallery are, above all, Economics and Climate Change 15 expeditions into their imaginations—personal, Asia’s Changing Megadelta Systems 15 provocative, intimate, inciting—and they offer Repurpose Compostables 16 many openings for us to enter. Venice/New York: Waterlines 16 At the SJDC, we actively use exhibitions Climate Manipulation Station 17 to think—seeing them as incentives for the Designing for Resilience 18 alternative explorations of materials, con- A Retreating Goddess? Conflicting Interpretations of Climate Change 18 cepts, and approaches. Our hybrid curatorial Near the Gangotri Glacier agenda embraces exhibitions as frameworks for critical and active engagement with our VISUAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP world, for synthesis and reflection, and for a situated and contextual understanding of the Down the Gowanus: Climate in Concrete 19 kind of learning and research that happens at the university. We see the large windows of VIDEO our galleries as invitations as much to reach Cool Stories for when the Planet Gets Hot II and III (New York premiere) 20 out as to come in. Throughout the fall, the place of imagina- tion in the debates on climate change will RADIO be folded, masticated, and u-n-f-o-l-d-e-d AirSpace: WNSR New School Radio 21 through our public programs. Artists will speak about activism, intervention, and OTHER RELATED EVENTS AT THE NEW SCHOOL 22 research in their creative practices; culinary STUDENT VIDEO CONTEST 23 performance artists will give you a taste of CALENDAR 24–25 NYC soil; scientists and artists will grant a CREDITS INSIDE BACK COVER glimpse into their serious work and their PANELS & CONVERSATIONS PANELS & CONVERSATIONS

Belgium. His work is represented in many da Cunha and his partner Anuradha Mathur of critical wetlands habitat (Blue Rocks) Conversation with the Curators: major public and private collections includ- have focused their artistic and design in the Gulf of Maine. In 2009 she began David Buckland and Chris Wainwright ing: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; expertise on cultural and ecological issues presenting performance workshops on her Arts Council England: Bibliothèque National, of contentious landscapes. Their investiga- theoretical approach to environmental res- Friday, September 30, 2011 Paris; the Polaroid Corporation, Boston, US; tions have taken them to diverse terrains toration, “Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic 6:00–7:00 p.m. and Unilever, London. including the Lower Mississippi, New York, Activism.” The first event was at the Survival The curators of U-n-f-o-l-d in conversation Sundarbans, Bangalore, Mumbai, and most Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of with Sarah E. Lawrence. Sarah E. Lawrence is the Dean of the School recently, Jerusalem. An underlying thread in her participation as a formal observer for the of Art and Design History and Theory at da Cunha’s work is a concern for how water UCB, at the United Nations IPCC conference Parsons The New School for Design. For the is visualized and engaged in ways that lead on climate change. David Buckland is an artist whose lens-based last ten years, she served as the Director of to conditions of its excess and scarcity, but works have been exhibited worldwide. In the MA Program in the History of Decorative also the opportunities that its fluidity offers Susannah Sayler is an artist and co-founder 1999, Buckland presented a one-person Arts and Design, before which she was the for new visualizations of terrain, design of The Canary Project. Her current body of show of digitally mastered portraits of Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial imagination, and design practice. They are work, a series of photographic landscapes performers at London’s National Portrait Fellow at The Jewish Museum, New York. the authors of Mississippi Floods: Designing titled A History of the Future, has been Gallery. In 2000, Buckland created the Cape She received her undergraduate degree a Shifting Landscape (New Haven: Yale exhibited widely in group and solo shows Farewell project, which he now directs. A from Swarthmore College, and her masters University Press, 2001); Deccan Traverses: at: Exit Art (NY), Human Resources (LA), major international Cape Farewell touring and doctorate from Columbia University The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (New Denver Museum of Contemporary Art – exhibition includes his video work The End of in Renaissance Art History and in Theory Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2006); and Soak: Creative Acts that Matter Program (Denver), Ice and two series of black glass collodion- and Criticism. Dr. Lawrence’s scholarship Mumbai in an Estuary (New Delhi: National Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), based photographic pieces and a series of focuses on Renaissance visual culture Gallery of Modern Art/Rupa and Co., 2009). ARTECH (Spain), Wave Hill (NY), Harvard twelve photographic glacial text projections. and antiquarianism in the work of Valerio Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, Buckland’s work was also shown in the UN Belli, Jacopo Strada, and Giovanni Battista Aviva Rahmani is an ecological artist who MA), Cleveland Museum of Natural History, touring Exhibition for World Environment Piranesi. She has curated such exhibitions as works with scientists to design solutions to and others. She has an upcoming exhibit at Day. In 2007, he projected on to the Gehry Crafting a Jewish Style: The Art of Bezalel, degraded environments. Shown and pub- The Nevada Museum of Art. In 2006, Sayler stage, Millennium Park, Chicago an hour- 1906–1996 (1998–1999) and Piranesi as lished internationally, she began her career and her long-time collaborator, Edward long video work Arctic made in collaboration Designer (2007–2008). In addition to courses as a performance artist in the late sixties Morris, co-founded The Canary Project, with the sound artist Max Eastley. He has on the visual culture of the Renaissance, as founder-director of the American Ritual which produces art and media that deepen produced two films for television:Art from she teaches the historiography and theory Theatre, a street theater group. Rahmani public understanding of climate change. the Arctic for the BBC, 2006 and Burning Ice, of decorative arts and methods of curatorial is currently an Affiliate at the Institute for To date, The Canary Project has produced 2010. Recently, he co-curated the exhibition practice. Arctic and Alpine research (INSTAAR), projects involving more than 30 artists, Earth—Art of a Changing World, at Royal University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB), and scientists, writers, designers, and educa- Academy, London. a researcher with the Zurich-Node group of tors. In 2008–09, Sayler was a Loeb Fellow the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Chris Wainwright is an artist, curator, What Ifs: Climate Change and Best known for her seminal work, Ghost Nets Sayler currently teaches in the Transmedia and Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Creative Agency 1990–2000 (www.ghostnets.com), Rahmani Department at Syracuse University. Wimbledon Colleges, the University of the received an Arts and Healing Network Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Arts London, UK. He is also President of the award in 2009 for her work on water. Her Eve Mosher is an artist and interventionist 6:30–8:30 p.m. European League of the Institutes of the Arts current new media project on the impact of living and working in New York City. Her (ELIA), an organization representing over Dilip da Cunha, Aviva Rahmani, and extractive industries and climate change, works use investigations of the landscape as 350 European Higher Arts Institutions. He is Susannah Sayler. Moderator: Eve Mosher. Gulf to Gulf (2009–present), compares the starting points for audience exploration of currently a member of Tate Britain Council impact of global warming on the Gulf of urban issues. Her public works raise issues and a board member of Cape Farewell. Maine and the Gulf of Mexico. It is a virtual of involvement in the environment, public/ He has been in numerous one person and Dilip da Cunha is an architect and planner. collaboration with scientists and is fiscally private space use, history of place, cultural group exhibitions in the UK and worldwide. He is visiting faculty at Parsons The New sponsored by the New York Foundation for and social issues, and our own understanding Recent exhibitions include The Moons of School for Design, New York, and the School the Arts. Previous ecological art projects of the urban ecosystem. Her work has been Higashiyama, Kodai-ji temple, Kyoto, Japan; of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He have resulted in the restoration of a former profiled in international media including the The Night of a Thousand Lights, Nara, Japan; has a PhD from the University of California dump site to a flourishing wetland system New York Times, ARTnews, L’uomo Vogue, Trauma, Culturalcentrum, Bruges, Belgium; at Berkeley and a Masters in City Planning (Ghost Nets) and helped catalyze a USDA and Le Monde. Her public and community- and Between Land and Sea, Box 38, Ostend, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. expenditure of $500,000 to restore 26 acres based artworks have received grants from 2 3 PANELS & CONVERSATIONS PANELS & CONVERSATIONS the New York State Council on the Arts and Francisco, Artisterium in the Republic of Lydia Matthews serves as Dean of Academic New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Georgia, Columbia College in Chicago, and Programs and Professor at Parsons The New Under Water: Climate Change, Insurance both through the Brooklyn Arts Council at the Royal Academy of Art in London. She School for Design. Trained as a contemporary Risk, and New York Real Estate and The City Parks Foundation. She has an has recently participated in expeditions to art historian at the University of California, Thursday, November 10, 2011 undergraduate degree in architecture and a remote parts of the planet traveling on an Berkeley and London’s Courtauld Institute, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Masters in Fine Arts. Arctic seafloor mapping expedition with the her work addresses how artists, artisans, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping in and designers foster democratic debates Speakers to be announced. Please check 2008, to the Andes and Amazon with Cape and intimate community interactions in the website for updates. Farewell in 2009, and sailing from Barbados public sphere. As a 2001 Spencer Foundation Climate Change: Art, Activism, to French Guyana on an Amazon Plume Fellow, Matthews worked with master and Research research expedition. She has been an artist craftspeople and students at the Kunming Co-sponsored by The New School for in residence at the Headlands Center for the Nationalities Institute for Ethnic Minorities Public Engagement Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Kala Institute, Peoples in China’s Yunnan Province, which 6:30–8:30 p.m. and The Blue Mountain Center. She is cur- sparked her interest in developing a more Amy Balkin, Adriane Colburn, and Mary rently teaching at the University of Georgia, robust critical discourse around craft. Since What Insects Tell Us: A Conversation Mattingly. Moderator: Lydia Matthews. Athens. Adriane’s recent work consists then, she has published widely and lectured between David Dunn and Hugh Raffles of large-scale installations (comprised of internationally on craft’s evolving role in layers of hand cut paper, digital prints, and contemporary culture, presenting radical Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Amy Balkin is an artist whose work involves projected light) that investigate the complex models of marketplace emerging at the 6:30–8:30 p.m. land and the geopolitical relationships relationships between human infrastructure, intersection of design thinking and grassroots that frame it. Her solo and collaborative earth systems, technology, and the natural craft practice. A curator/educational advisor projects consider legal borders and systems, world. These works, derived from scientific for numerous institutions ranging from David Dunn is a composer whose current environmental justice, and the allocation of data, images, and video collected through small artist-run spaces to international art work is focused upon the development of common-pool resources. These include This research and while participating in scientific residencies to major museums, she curates listening strategies and technologies for is the Public Domain, an ongoing effort to expeditions, look at how mapping is used to regularly in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, environmental sound monitoring in both create a permanent international commons investigate fragile and remote ecosystems including the US contribution to Art Caucasus aesthetic and scientific contexts. Dunn is through the legal transfer of 2.64 acres of along the edges of the Earth’s last vestiges of International (2005); Artisterium International internationally known for his articulation land near Tehachapi, California to the global wilderness. (2008, 2010); One-Stop (temporary interven- of frameworks that combine the arts and public, and Public Smog (2004–present) an tions along this volatile post-Soviet city’s sciences towards practical environmental atmospheric park, opened through economic Mary Mattingly has participated in exhibitions main boulevard, 2007); and the Life Beyond activism and problem-solving. His mentors and political activities and gestures, such as at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Tourism Project (2010), which sought to included composers Harry Partch, Kenneth purchasing and withholding pollution rights the International Center of Photography, illuminate the cultural capital inherent in local Gaburo, and Pauline Oliveros, in addition (NOx/CO2) in regulated emissions markets, Palais de Tokyo, and the Neuberger culture. Commissioned by the Open Society to Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski. and an attempt to add the Earth’s atmosphere Museum of Art. She has had solo exhibitions Foundation, she will return in 2012 to offer Dunn has been the recipient of over 35 to the UNESCO World Heritage List. She at Occurrence Espace d’art et d’essai new strategies for strengthening curatorial grants and fellowships for both artistic and was a collaborator on Invisible-5 (2006), Contemporains in Montreal; Robert Mann infrastructures throughout the southern scientific research, including the National an environmental justice audio tour along Gallery, NY; the New York Public Library; Caucasus. In 2010, she helped launch a Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller California’s Interstate-5 freeway between Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Curatorial Design Research Lab at Parsons, Foundation, Langlois Foundation, McCune San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her recent Galerie Adler in Frankfurt, Germany. In whose activities included a collaborative Foundation, Meet the Composer, Ford projects include Land: 5 Case Studies and a 2010, she participated in the Marie Walsh endeavor with the Benaki Museum Pireos Foundation, Delle Foundation, Tides public billboard project in Douala, Cameroon. Sharpe Art Foundation residency (NY), Annex in Athens, Greece. Entitled Against Foundation, New Mexico Arts Division, and She lives and works in San Francisco, where Skowhegan (ME), and was awarded an Art All Odds: Ethics/Aesthetics (2011), the the US embassies to Argentina and Japan. she teaches in the Social Practice Program at Matters Foundation travel grant. Currently, project examined participatory co-design in In 2005, he received the Alpert Award for California College of the Arts. Mattingly is a fellow at Eyebeam Center for response to urgent global and local environ- music, and the Henry Cowell Award from the Art + Technology and a Jerome Foundation mental and social conditions. American Music Center in 2007. As a pioneer Adriane Colburn is an artist based in San grantee. Her work has been featured in in the fields of acoustic ecology, bioacous- Francisco, Vermont, and Athens, Georgia. Artforum, the New York Times, the New tics, interspecies communication, and sci- She has exhibited her work throughout the Yorker, the Financial Times, Le Monde entific sonification, he has composed a body US and internationally, at venues such as Magazine, ICON, Sculpture Magazine, of innovative and experimental musical work The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Aperture, BBC News, and MSNBC. and has contributed to projects as diverse as 4 5 PANELS & CONVERSATIONS PANELS & CONVERSATIONS sensory enhancement of healthcare environ- also developed participatory art projects his written work has appeared in The Village City region, she worked with city planners, ments, intervention strategies for forest and to engage communities in local action at Voice, The Source, Artforum, The Wire, Rap environmental scientists, historians, and agricultural pests, and reducing sensory points in between. He has worked with Pages, Paper Magazine, The Nation, and a other experts to look at the impact of climate deprivation problems in captive animals. environmentalists and scientists to develop host of other periodicals. Miller’s work as an on the future of human life both locally He has investigated, among other things, coastal reforestation initiatives in Miami artist has appeared in a variety of contexts and globally. Polli is currently an Associate the interrelationship between music and (2007), an urban reforestation campaign such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering at language and the ultrasonic world beyond in St. Petersburg, FL (2009), and coral Biennial; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, The University of New Mexico and Mesa Del human hearing. As an expert wildlife sound reef preservation efforts in Hawaii (2010). Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media at the recordist, Dunn has invented microphones Cortada has also worked with groups inter- Warhol Museum; Paula Cooper Gallery; University. to record such phenomena as the sounds nationally to produce numerous art projects and many other museums and galleries. His of bark beetles within trees, underwater and installations, including environmental newest book, The Book of Ice, was published Simone Douglas works across photography, invertebrates in freshwater ponds, and the works in Holland (2009), Quebec (2009), in July 2011 by Mark Batty Publishers. Sound video, and installation, and has curated ultrasonic world of bats. and Latvia (2008); peace murals in Cyprus Unbound (MIT Press), a collection of writings numerous exhibitions. Her works have been (2000) and Northern Ireland (2000); child by notable authors, preceded that. His exhibited internationally at, and are held in, Hugh Raffles is a professor of anthropology welfare murals in Bolivia (1997) and Panama latest large-scale multimedia performance collections including the Victoria and Albert at The New School. He is the author most re- (1999); and the official InternationalAIDS piece is “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica,” Museum, London; the Art Gallery of NSW, cently of Insectopedia (Vintage), which was Conference murals in Geneva (1998) and commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Sydney; and the National Gallery of Victoria, a New York Times Notable Book for 2010 and South Africa (2000). The Miami artist has Music/Next Wave Festival and other highly Melbourne. Her work has also been exhibited the winner of the Orion Book Prize, a Special also been commissioned to create art for respected presenters. at the Photographers Gallery, London; the Prize for Extending Ethnographic Under- the White House (2002), the World Bank Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The standing from the Society for Humanistic (2003), Miami City Hall (2005), Miami-Dade Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Anthropology, and a 2009 Whiting Writers’ County Hall (2004), Miami Art Museum New Mexico. Her work with science, technol- Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Award. Hugh’s work has appeared in Granta, (2001), the Museum of Florida History ogy, and media has been presented widely and Month of the Photo, Paris. Her work is Orion, Cabinet, Natural History, Conservation (2003), and the Frost Art Museum (2008). in over 100 presentations, exhibitions, and published most recently in Conveyor, Blind Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Cortada, who was born in Albany, New York performances internationally. It has been Spot, and Photography and Place: Australian Street Journal, as well as in academic jour- and grew up in Miami, holds degrees from recognized by numerous grants, residen- landscape photography 1970s until now, nals. He is currently working on a new book the University of Miami College of Arts and cies, and awards including a NYFA Artist’s AGNSW. She was project director and about rocks and stones. Sciences, Graduate School of Business Fellowship, the Fulbright Specialist Award, curator for Picture Sydney: landmarks of a and School of Law. He currently serves as and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her new generation at the Australian Museum, director of the Office of Engaged Teaching, work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles a Getty Conservation Institute Initiative. Scholarship, and Creative Activities at the Times, Art in America, Art News, and NY Arts, She has been a guest scholar at Köln Southern Discomforts: A Focus on Florida International University College of among others. She has published several International School of Design, and initiated Antarctica Architecture + The Arts in Miami, FL. book chapters, audio CDs, DVDs, and papers the international art and design collective in print including in MIT Press and Cambridge Conjecture, and served on the Board of Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Born in 1970 in Washington D.C., Paul D. University Press journals. She currently Directors at First Draft Gallery, Sydney. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Miller is an artist, writer, and musician works in collaboration with atmospheric sci- Most recently, Douglas is running an interna- Xavier Cortada, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, working in New York. Miller is best known entists to develop systems for understanding tional visual research project, The Exquisite and Andrea Polli. Moderator: Simone under the moniker of his “constructed storm and climate through sound. Recent Corpse. Before joining the faculty at Parsons, Douglas. persona” as “DJ Spooky That Subliminal projects include: a spatialized sonification Douglas has been faculty at the College of Kid.” Miller has recorded a huge volume of highly detailed models of storms that Fine Arts, University of NSW; National Art of music and has collaborated with a wide devastated the New York area, a series of School, Sydney; and Sydney College of Xavier Cortada has created art installations variety of artists, writers, musicians, and sonifications of climate in Central Park, the Arts, University of Sydney, where she is in the Earth’s poles to generate awareness composers such as Robert Wilson, Iannis and a real-time multi-channel sonification currently an Honorary Associate Professor. about global climate change. In 2007, the Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariko Mori, and visualization of weather in the Arctic. She holds an MFA and a Grad. Dip. Prof. artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the Kool Keith/Doctor Octagon, Pierre Boulez, In 2007/2008 she spent seven weeks in Art Studies from the College of Fine Arts, South Pole as an instrument to mark time. Saul Williams, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono, Antarctica on a National Science Foundation University of NSW and a BA in Visual Arts The art piece will be complete in 150,000 Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Paul Auster, funded project (www.90degreessouth.org). from Sydney College of the Arts, University years. In 2008, he planted a green flag at the and Colson Whitehead among many others. As a member of the steering committee for of Sydney. North Pole to reclaim it for nature and launch In addition to his award winning book Rhythm New York 2050, a wide-reaching project a reforestation eco-art effort. Cortada has Science (MIT Press, 2005), envisioning the future of the New York 6 7 PERFORMANCES PERFORMANCES

Looking at sites across the boroughs , practices via MillionTreesNYC on the ecosys- creates and performs unique multi-media New York Mud Pies or A Taste of Climate this evening’s presentation translates into tem structure and functioning of NYC park- performance pieces that intertwine truth and Change: Urban Reforestation in NYC a culinary experience the many variables in land. Dr. McPhearson’s research is supported fiction and have won her a host of awards, in- soil composition that affect reforestation in by the National Science Foundation, Andrew cluding the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater and Wednesday, November 9, 2011 the city and by extension, impact our local W. Mellon Foundation, Eppley Foundation for a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work 7:00 p.m. changing climate. Research, and Christian A. Johnson Endeavor has been presented internationally, most In partnership with Eyebeam Art + Foundation, and has been published in books, recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Technology Center and Stefani Bardin, A razor, a shiny knife started in 2007 as a popular press, and scientific journals (includ- in San Francisco; Soho Rep, and St. Ann’s Honorary Resident at Eyebeam and Part-time group of friends drawn together by a passion ing Nature) both nationally and internationally. Warehouse in New York; Les Subsistances faculty at Parsons The New School for Design for food and the social connections it forges He teaches Principles of Ecology, Environment in Lyon, France; and the Edinburgh Festival and The New School for Public Engagement. who were looking for larger and more and Society, Ecology LAB, and Urban in Scotland. Through the process of making dynamic ways to express their creativity. Ecosystems at The New School. performances, she attempts to alchemize These interactions quickly grew in scope disturbance into works of intrigue and hope Join a razor, a shiny knife, a culinary perfor- to encompass a social table where guests that simultaneously stimulate the senses, mance group that creates educational, social, were invited to participate and learn from provoke emotion, and enliven the mind. She and theatrical experiences around the world, the cooking process and not just be served This Clement World has also produced eight albums with her in exploring climate change in New York City. a meal. What began as a humble “supper band, Gloria Deluxe. Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Their demonstration will examine a sliver of club” has become an international cultural 6:30 p.m. the current ecological landscape and create phenomenon, and educational culinary Jeff Sugg is an acclaimed designer of a series of edible info-graphics using modern game-changer. A work-in-progress presentation of a projections for live performance. He is a culinary techniques to evoke the soil struc- musical performance piece addressing the co-founding member of the performance tures that affect the trees across our boroughs. P. Timon McPhearson is Assistant Professor global climate crisis with poetic urgency. group Accinosco with Cynthia Hopkins and Urban reforestation is one of the of Urban Ecology at The New School for Jim Findlay and co-designed their critically Performed by Cynthia Hopkins significant mitigation strategies for climate Public Engagement and the Tishman acclaimed Accidental Trilogy—Accidental change and the urban heat island effect. Soil Environment and Design Center where Designer: Jeff Sugg Nostalgia, Must Don’t Whip ‘Um (2007 Bessie and trees effectively store carbon dioxide he teaches ecology and coordinates Director: DJ Mendel Award), and The Success of Failure (or, and other pollutants. In New York, one of Environmental Science for the university. The Failure of Success). In addition to his PlaNYC’s initi atives is the MillionTreesNYC Dr. McPhearson earned his PhD in Ecology, contributions to Accinosco, Sugg works in- (MTNYC) program whose goal is to plant Evolution, and Natural Resources from This Clement World is a live performance- dependently as a designer, technical advisor, and care for one million new trees across the Rutgers University in 2004 and did his post- cum-documentary film infused with outland- and instructor. Some other theater designs five boroughs over the next decade. These doctoral work at Columbia University’s Earth ish fiction and original avant-folk orchestral include 33 Variations (projections, Broadway; trees capture carbon dioxide in their tissues, Institute. He is a former National Science songs, conveying vital information regarding 2009 Henry Hewes Award), Compulsion and their shade and vegetation cover can Foundation Fellow, Columbia University the climate crisis through a deeply personal (projections, Berkeley Rep), Making It lower the city’s surface temperature. Science Fellow, and while at the Earth and idiosyncratic lens. Like previous works (co-design, set, and projections, St. Ann’s The NYC Urban Forest Restoration Institute, he helped create the Columbia by Ms. Hopkins and her collaborators, this Warehouse), As You Like It (projections, the Study, which includes scientists from The University’s first required undergraduate musical performance work takes an innova- Shakespeare Theatre), The Book of Grace New School, Yale University, and Columbia science course, Frontiers of Science. He has tive approach to narrative through the inte- (projections, The Public), ¡El Conquistador! University in collaboration with NYC Depart- taught at Rutgers University, the American gration of a variety of media including music, (lights, NYTW), The Slug Bearers of Kayrol ment of Parks and Recreation, is assessing Museum of Natural History, Columbia Univer- songs, text, movement, visual display, and Island (co-designer, set, and projections, the long and short-term ecological impacts of sity, and The New School. Dr. McPhearson’s design. The multifaceted content expressed Vineyard Theatre; 2008 Henry Hewes, Obie the MTNYC reforestation efforts. One finding research is focused on improving the resil- through this layered narrative structure seeks and Lucille Lortel Awards), and The Truth: is that even as trees are planted,many fail to ience and sustainability of urban socio-eco- to illuminate the ways in which humanity is A Tragedy (production design, Soho Rep). survive. As one component of this study, P. logical systems in a rapidly urbanizing world. currently rendering its habitat inhospitable to Sugg has also worked as a resident designer Timon McPhearson, Assistant Professor of To do this he combines ecological theory itself and the requisite changes of behavior for a variety of theater companies including Urban Ecology at The New School, is studying with practice to advance our understanding necessary to maintain a habitable climate The Pig Iron Theatre Company (sets and how urban tree planting affects soil carbon of how to conserve and enhance the eco- for generations of people, hundreds of years lights: 1995–98); The Collapsible Giraffe and other soil variables, and how soils, in turn, system services and functions that urban into the future—people we will never meet. (lights: 1996–2005); Transmission Projects affect arboreal survival and mortality rates citizens rely on. As part of this research, he (co-founder: lights and projections); and in the city, and thus, the success of trees as a leads the multi-institutional effort to under- Cynthia Hopkins is a writer, composer, DASS dance (lights: 1999–2004). In addition climate mitigation strategy. stand the effects of urban forest restoration multi-instrumentalist, and theater artist. She to his work as a designer, Mr. Sugg is 8 9 PERFORMANCES SYMPOSIA Presented by the India China Institute (ICI) in collaboration with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. regarded as a premiere technical consultant Fund; and donations from individuals includ- recognized by the Rolex Award, the Global and system designer for many organizations, ing Eleanor Alper, Warren Habib, Adam Max, Rethinking Everyday Religion and Climate Leaders recognition at the World Economic projects, and artists including The Wooster and Jony Perez. If YOU would like to support Change in the Himalayas Forum in Davos, and the Tech Award in Group (technical artist); Laurie Anderson This Clement World, please mail your tax- Friday, November 18, 2011 Silicon Valley, to name a few. Chitrakar also (video system design); Richard Foreman deductible donation to Accinosco, Inc. at 85 6:00–8:00 p.m. comes from an artisan family and has dedi- (video system design); Mikel Rouse (video South 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249—we cated his life to recovering as well as finding system design); and The Baseball Music need your help! Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, unique and sustainable ways to conserving Project (video system design). Mr. Sugg has 66 Fifth Avenue, Ground Floor Nepal’s built, living, and natural heritage. His also worked as an instructor at Swarthmore A concert of Songs for This Clement World What is the relationship between everyday organization, Crafted in Kathmandu, and College, the University of Illinois (Urbana- will be presented May 4, 2012 at St. Ann’s religion and climate change? How, and his “Heritage Walks” are deeply rooted in Champaign), Princeton University (in Warehouse in Brooklyn. to what effect, do they manifest in the this passion. Chitrakar has also served as collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Himalayas? In a roundtable event, Sanjay a member of the Kathmandu City Planning Susan Marshall), and the Yale University The completed version of This Clement Chaturvedi, Anil Chitrakar, and Faiz Ali Khan Commission in the last elected municipal Graduate Theater Department. World is scheduled to premiere during the will explore these topics while drawing upon government of Kathmandu. 2012–13 season. examples from India, Nepal, and Pakistan. D.J. Mendel has written, directed, and edited Faiz Ali Khan is the National Program original films includingUntitled: A Mystery; Director for the Program for Mountain Happy Birthday, Miss America; Wake Up Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Areas Conservation with the Ministry of and Waltz; Hesitation; and Make Pretend. Science at Punjab University, Chandigarh, Environment in Islamabad. He has previously He also directed a film based on the Richard and an ICI Fellow (2010 –2012). His area of worked with WWF-Pakistan and The World Foreman screenplay Planet Earth: Dreams. specialization is the theory and practice of Conservation Union. He holds an MSc from In addition to directing his own films and geopolitics with special reference to Polar the University of Punjab in Zoology and plays, Mr. Mendel directs live performances Regions and the Indian Ocean Region. His Wildlife. by a variety of artists. Recent directing current area of research is the geopolitics credits include: Rosanne Cash’s The List in of climate change, environmental security, Concert, Black Cadillac in Concert, Cynthia and climate justice. Chaturvedi is a member Water, Culture, and Climate Change Hopkins’ The Truth: A Tragedy, Accidental of the Steering Committee of International Nostalgia; The Success of Failure (Or the Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Failure of Success); and Daniel Bernard Political Geography and the Co-Chair of 6:00–8:00 p.m. Roumain’s Darwin’s Meditation for the People Research Committee 15 (RC 15) on Political Theresa Lang Community and Student of Lincoln, which premiered at BAM’s Next and Cultural Geography of International Center, 55 W. 13 Street, 2nd Floor Wave Festival. Performing credits include Political Science Association (IPSA). in Richard Foreman’s Permanent Brain Chaturvedi’s research on environmental In a world of melting glaciers, rising seas, Damage, Panic (How to be Happy), The security and climate change has been pub- devastating floods, and extensive droughts, Universe, and Lucy Thurber’s Monstrosity. lished in peer-review journals including Third the role that climate change plays in A long time collaborator with Hal Hartley he World Quarterly, Australian Journal of Political exacerbating water overabundance and has been in Mr. Hartley’s filmsFay Grim, The Science, Geopolitics, the Journal of the Indian scarcity is readily apparent. This event will Book of Life, No Such Thing, The New Maths, Ocean Region, and the Ocean Year Book. feature Barbara Rose Johnston and Anne The Girl from Monday, and in Mr. Hartley’s Rademacher presenting new research in a theatrical debut Soon. Anil Chitrakar was born and schooled in public discussion with Georgina Drew on our Nepal and went on to train as an engineer transforming relationships with water. The creation of This Clement World is and energy planner at the University of made possible by the generous support Rajasthan (India) and the University of of commissioning venues including the Pennsylvania (US). Chitrakar assisted in Barbara Rose Johnston is the senior research Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Les implementing the National Conservation fellow for human rights and the environ- Subsistances (Lyon, France), and St. Ann’s Strategy for Nepal between 1990 and ment at the Center for Political Ecology in Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY); an Arctic expedi- 1997. He received an Ashoka Fellowship Santa Cruz, California and Michigan State tion provided by Cape Farewell; residencies for launching Environmental Camps for adjunct Professor of Anthropology. Other provided by Yaddo and MacDowell; grants Conservation Awareness (ECCA) in Nepal professional appointments include repara- from the Jerome Foundation and the MAP in 1987 and his works have also been tions advisor to the World Commission on 10 11 SYMPOSIA SPECIAL EVENTS

Dams, water and cultural diversity advisor completed a major research initiative in health researcher, Madeleine Thomson, to UNESCO, and sociocultural/biomedical one of South Asia’s fastest-growing and New York Book Launch and Reception: on their first date. A chance to hook up advisor to the Marshall Islands Nuclear most politically dynamic cities, Kathmandu. Climate Change and Cities with other artists and scientists as well! Claims Tribunal. Her global studies and case- Insights from that research are highlighted Friday, October 21, 2011 specific research on water, culture, and power in her forthcoming book, Reigning the River: 5:00 p.m. includes a focus on hydrodevelopment, Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born forced displacement, and related impoverish- in Kathmandu. Other recent work has Book launch for Climate Change and Cities American photographer, writer, and activist. ment. Her efforts to document environmental addressed urban ecology as it relates to (New York: Cambridge University Press, Over the past decade, he has been a leading injustice and secure meaningful remedy housing and migration, political stability, 2011), Edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig, William international voice on issues of arctic conser- have been acknowledged by the American cultural conflict, and alternative forms of D. Solecki, Stephen A. Hammer, and Shagun vation, indigenous human rights, and global Anthropological Association with the 2002 environmental knowledge. Rademacher’s Mehrotra. warming and over the past five years, he has Solon T. Kimball Public Anthropology Award current research addresses the theory and been focusing on forest deaths from global and the 2007 Lourdes Arizpe Environmental practice of sustainable building, or green warming. His photographs and writing have Issues and Policy Award. Major publications design, in rapid-growth cities of the Global Join the editors for the New York book launch reached tens of millions of people around include the edited or co-authored books Who South. and a discussion of the first ongoing state- the world through exhibitions, publications, Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of-the-knowledge assessment report on and public lectures. He founded the website of Environmental Crisis (Island Press, 1994); Georgina Drew is a postdoctoral scholar climate change and cities. The report includes ClimateStoryTellers.org in August 2010. He Water, Culture, Power (with J. Donahue, in the India China Institute’s initiative contributions from 106 scholars from 50 cities is currently editing an anthology titled Arctic Island Press, 1998); Endangered Peoples on Everyday Religion and Sustainable around the world who are members of the Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (New of the World (series editor, Greenwood Environments in the Himalayas. Her work at Urban Climate Change Research Network York: Seven Stories Press, 2012). His recent Press, 1999–2001); Disappearing Peoples? the institute builds upon her doctoral studies (UCCRN), a coalition of international re- exhibitions include a solo show Where I Live Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in at the University of North Carolina at Chapel searchers formed at the time of the C40 Large I Hope To Know at the Amon Carter Museum South and Central Asia (with B. Brower, Left Hill (UNC-CH) and her extensive research Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. of American Art in Fort Worth (2011), as Coast Press, 2006); Half-lives and Half-truths: activities in the Indian and Nepali Himalayas. well as group exhibitions at the New Mexico Moderator: John Clinton, Director, Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Drew’s dissertation research examined the Museum of Art in Santa Fe (2011) and the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Cold War (SAR Press, 2007); Consequential cultural and religious dimensions of envi- Nevada Museum of Art in Reno (September Management, The New School Damages of Nuclear War-The Rongelap ronmental conflict along the upper stretch 24, 2011–February 19, 2012). Subhankar Report (with H. Barker, Left Coast, 2008); of the Ganga River in the Indian state of Opening Remarks: Joel Towers, Executive received an inaugural Cultural Freedom Waging War, Making Peace-Reparations and Uttarakhand. Her work and writing— Dean, Parsons The New School for Design Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, Human Rights (with S. Slyomovics, Left Coast supported by funding from the Fulbright an inaugural Greenleaf Artist Award from In Partnership with The Tishman Environment Press, 2009); Life and Death Matters: Human Hays, the National Science Foundation, and United Nations Environment Programme, and Design Center. Rights, Environment and Social Justice (Left UNC-CH—demonstrates the influence of a National Conservation Achievement Coast, 2011). She is editor-in-chief for the religious systems and practices on resource Award from National Wildlife Federation, forthcoming book Water, Cultural Diversity management decisions in the Himalayas. a Special Achievement Award from Sierra and Environmental Change (UNESCO/ At the India China Institute, Drew continues Climate Change Art/Science Dating Game Club, a Housberg Award from the Alaska Springer, 2011). her research while helping to coordinate a Conservation Foundation, and was named an network of interdisciplinary scholars that Thursday, December 1, 2011 Arctic Hero by Alaska Wilderness League on Anne Rademacher serves as Assistant address religious issues and environmental 7:00 p.m. December 6, 2010–the 50th anniversary of Professor in programs of Environmental challenges in diverse contexts. She is a Subhankar Banerjee and Madeleine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He is the Studies and Metropolitan Studies in the five-time Foreign Language Area Studies Thomson. MC: David Berreby. Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Department of Social and Cultural Analysis fellow for Hindi, a student of Nepali, and a Study at Princeton and a Fellow at the Forbes In partnership with PositiveFeedback, an at New York University. She is also the Himalayan enthusiast. College of Princeton University for Fall term inter-institutional collaboration of The Earth Director of the Metropolitan Studies 2011. Institute at Columbia University, the Center Program at NYU. Through ethnographic for Creative Research at NYU, and the CUNY analyses of urban environmental change, Madeleine Thomson is a Senior Research Institute for Sustainable Cities. Rademacher studies how place-based affini- Scientist at the International Research ties, contested histories, and ideologies of Wondering what brings scientists and artists Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) with belonging develop in struggles over the form, together on climate change? Join photogra- over eight years of service in the manage- content, and quality of urban environments pher and environmental activist, Subhankar ment team as Director of Impacts Research, with an emphasis on water. She recently Banerjee, and scientist and climate and Chair of the Africa Regional Programme, 12 13 SPECIAL EVENTS BROWN BAGS: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS and Senior advisor to the PAHO-WHO was awarded the Erving Goffman Award for Collaborating Centre for malaria and other Outstanding Scholarship for the first edition Economics and Climate Change Asia’s Changing Megadelta Systems climate sensitive diseases. She currently of Us and Them. Willi Semmler Victoria Marshall and Brian McGrath leads the Health portfolio at IRI. She trained Thursday, October 6, 2011 Thursday, October 13, 2011 originally as a field entomologist and has 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. spent much of her career engaged in operational research in support of large- Faculty Fellow at the Schwartz Center The water of the Tibetan Plateau meets scale health interventions, mostly in Africa. for Economic Policy Analysis at The New the North and South China Seas, the Gulf Her research focuses on the development School, Willi Semmler, will report on the of Thailand and Bay of Bengal in nine mega- of new tools for improving climate sensi- international conference The Bottom Line deltas: 1. Yellow, 2. Yangtze, 3. Pearl, 4. Red, tive health interventions (e.g. riskmapping on Climate Change, held at The New School 5. Mekong, 6. Chao Phraya, 7. Irrawaddy, and early warning systems for malaria, on September 23–24, 2011, and discuss 8. Ganges-Brahmaputra, and 9. Indus. onchocerciasis, kala azar, etc.). This work next steps. Urban designers Victoria Marshall and Brian has expanded into air-borne infections and McGrath examine Asia’s urban megadeltas she is currently developing a substantive which are facing some of the most daunting program for meningitis environmental Willi Semmler is Professor at the Department challenges, vulnerabilities, and risks from risk assessment in anticipation of the new of Economics at The New School, New York. climate change, caught between the shrink- conjugate A vaccine. In recent years, she has He is author or co-author of more than 85 ing Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels, and become increasingly interested in improv- refereed articles in international journals massive urbanizations. ing institutional and human capacity for and is author or co-author of 11 books. incorporating climate information into health His recent publications include the third planning. To help achieve the latter she is edition of his book Asset prices, Booms and Victoria Marshall is an Assistant Professor of working to create a ‘health and climate’ Recessions (Springer Publishing House, Urban Design at Parsons The New School for disciplinary interface and a ‘climate smart’ 2011) and a co-edited book Foundations Design. She is an India China Institute Fellow public health community. She is the Vice- of Credit Risk Analysis (Elgar, 2007). He 2010 –2012 and the director of the BS Urban President of a non-profit501 (3) c The Health is member of the New York Academy of Design Program, the first undergraduate and Climate Foundation. She has been PI Sciences and has been a visiting scholar of urban design program in an art and design and Co-PI on projects funded by the UK Columbia University, Stanford University, school in the nation. Her scholarly focus Department for International Development, and the Cepremap in Paris. He was Fortis- linking urban design, drawing, and ecology The UK Meningitis Research Foundation, Bank Visiting Professor of the University of is present in her teaching as well as TILL, a NASA, The UK Medical Research Council, Antwerp, Visiting Professor at the University Newark based landscape architecture and The World Health Organisation, The African of Marseilles/Aix-en-Provence and has urban design practice that she founded Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, taught financial economics for the European in 2002. She is a member of the Baltimore the European Union, Google.org, the Quantitative Economics Doctorate (QED) Ecosystem Study Urban Design Working International Federation of the Red Cross, Program at universities in Italy, Spain, Group, a Long Term Ecological Research USID, and NOAA. She joined the IRI in May Portugal, and Germany. He taught at the project sponsored by the National Science 2002. Bielefeld University and serves on the Board Foundation. Marshall received her Bachelor of Directors for the Center for Empirical of Landscape Architecture degree from the David Berreby is the author of Us and Them: Macroeconomics, Bielefeld University, and University of New South Wales and Masters The Science of Identity. He has written about has served to evaluate research projects for of Landscape Architecture with a Certificate human behavior and other science topics the National Science Foundations of Austria, in Urban Design from the University of for The New Yorker, the New York Times Germany, Belgium, and the UK. He is on Pennsylvania. She has taught at that school Magazine, Slate, Smithsonian, The New the scientific committee of the Society for as well as Columbia University, Harvard Republic, Nature, Discover, Vogue, and many Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, the University, Pratt Institute, and the University other publications. He has been a Visiting Society for Computation in Economics and of Toronto. Scholar at the University of Paris, a Science Finance, and the Workshop on Computational Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological and Financial Econometrics. He regularly Brian McGrath is a partner at urban-interface, Laboratory, a resident at Yaddo, and in 2006 writes columns for the German publication an urban design studio that examines the der Spiegel. relationships between the architecture and ecology of cities. His web project, 14 15 BROWN BAGS: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS BROWN BAGS: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Manhattan Timeformations, has received Airlines, Conde Nast, and Fairmont Hotels. A Arti di Bologna, Italy; an MA in European Fine KSAK, Chisinau; Wexner Center for the Arts numerous international awards including LEED® Accredited Professional since 2002, Art at Winchester School of Art, UK; and a (collaboration with Dubbin and Davidson); Pris Ars Electronica. He leads the Urban Lauren has consulted on over 75 LEED® PhD in Studio and Theory of Fine Arts at the Nottingham Playhouse; Neue Galerie Design Working Group at the Baltimore Registered projects in North America as University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Graz; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; Ecosystem Study, a long-term ecological well as various residential and commercial UK. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Art in Odd Places, New York; MUS, Vienna; research project funding by the US National buildings, corporations, and homes in Los is a faculty member at Eugene Lang College, Chinese Biennale, Beijing; Moderna Museet, Science Foundation. McGrath is also an Angeles, Toronto, and New York City. Ms. The New School for Liberal Arts. Stockholm; P.M. Gallery, Zagreb; and ZAIM, Associate Professor and Research Chair in Gropper’s film and television experience Yokohama. Urban Design at Parsons The New School began in her role as host and consultant for Design. He has served as a Fellow at to HGTV’s Green Force. Lauren was then Klaus Lackner, PhD, is the Ewing Worzel the India China Institute and as a Fulbright hired as a green consultant to the set of Climate Manipulation Station Professor of Geophysics at Columbia Senior Scholar in Thailand. McGrath HBO’s Entourage and went on to become a Klaus Schafler with Klaus Lackner University, where he is also the Director of received a Masters of Architecture from consulting producer for Discovery’s Alter the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Monday, November 7, 2011 Princeton University and is the co-author of Eco with Adrian Grenier. Recently, Lauren the Chair of the Department of Earth and 12:30 p.m. Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today; co-founded Minimal Productions, LLC, an Environmental Engineering, and a member the author of Digital Modelling for Urban environmental consulting firm targeted to the Schafler will discussClimate Manipulation of the Earth Institute faculty. Lackner earned Design; and the co-editor of Growing Cities entertainment and advertising industries. She Station, his ongoing art project focusing on his PhD in theoretical particle physics, in a Shrinking World: The Challenges of was selected to be a part of Absolut Vodka’s the ambivalent character of Geo-engineering summa cum laude, in 1978 from Heidelberg Urbanization in India and China and Sensing Visionary campaign, and is a representative concepts—large-scale technologies that University in Germany and was awarded the 21st Century City: Close-up and Remote. for Hyundai’s LiveSmart, consulting both on “hack the planet” to slow or even reverse the Clemm-Haas Prize for his outstanding He is currently editing an anthology of con- and off the set for their recent carbon neutral climate change effects, such as removing PhD thesis. He was awarded the Max Kade temporary urban design texts in The Urban campaign—the first ever carbon neutral com- carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using Fellowship and was named a Fleischmann Design Ecologies Reader, to be published in mercial production. Lauren is a co-founder synthetic trees or reducing solar radiation Fellow at the California Institute of May 2012. of SHFT.com, winner of two 2011 Webby through seeding clouds to be whiter and Technology. He was instrumental in forming Awards, and is founder and CEO of Repurpose reflect more sunlight. He is joined by his the Zero Emission Coal Alliance and was a Compostables. collaborator, Klaus Lackner, who will speak lead author in the IPCC Report on Carbon about his scientific work on the synthetic tree Capture and Storage and received the Repurpose Compostables as a means of tackling the challenge of global Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award Lauren Gropper warming. Schafler will describe his plan to in 1991. In 2001, Lackner joined Columbia Venice/New York: Waterlines contextualize and visualize that approach in University and his current research interests Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Simonetta Moro artistic practice. An exhibition of this work will include carbon capture and sequestration, 12:30 p.m. open at the Space for Art and Industry at the air capture, energy systems, and scaling Thursday, November 3, 2011 Lauren Gropper will discuss accelerating Brooklyn Navy Yard on November 10, 2011. properties (including synthetic fuels and 12:30 p.m. green product innovation and new business wind energy), energy and environmental models, specifically the use of new plant Recollection, observation, and utopia are the policy, lifecycle analysis, and zero emission based materials and waste to energy con- guiding principles for a series of imaginary Klaus Schafler is a Vienna-based artist who modelling for coal and cement plants. version models that she has employed in maps of New York and Venice focusing on their studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Repurpose Compostables. relationship with water and rising sea levels. School for Artistic Photography, Vienna; Faculty of Economics University Graz, and Facolta di Scienze-Politiche, Messina. In Lauren Gropper is a leader in the field of Simonetta Moro works with painting, drawing, 2007, he was a fellow with Lower Manhattan sustainability consulting and environmen- and installation. Her practice includes map- Cultural Council, New York, and a visiting tal design, with a focus on commercial making, psychogeography, and teaching. critic at ART OMI in 2008. For his project architecture and entertainment. She holds Her work has been exhibited in the US and in on Climate Manipulation Stations he was a Masters of Science in Environmental Europe, including: The Clara Hatton Gallery, awarded a grant by the art-science initiative Planning and Design from the Pratt School Fort Collins, CO; Center for Architecture, New of the Austrian bm:ukk (2010–2012). He also of Architecture and is an adjunct professor York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; works for Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna on at Pratt. Lauren has been called upon to the American Academy in Rome, Italy; and the exhibition projects, and is co-curator of artist- work with Fortune 100 companies including Harris Museum, Preston, UK. Moro obtained collective K.U.L.M. His work has been shown Gensler, Bank of America, Microsoft, Korean a BFA in Painting at the Accademia di Belle at venues such as Anni-Art, 798, Beijing; 16 17 BROWN BAGS: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS VISUAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Designing for Resilience A Retreating Goddess? Conflicting Down the Gowanus: Climate in Concrete Mathan Ratinam Interpretations of Climate Change near Saturday and Sunday, the Gangotri Glacier Thursday, November 10, 2011 October 15–16 and October 29–30, 2011 Georgina Drew 12:30 p.m. Led by Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler, Thursday, December 8, 2011 Mathan Ratinam will discuss his humanitarian The Canary Project. 12:30 p.m design practice and describe how his various This two-weekend workshop with faculty and projects in disaster risk reduction intersect Sharing images and stories from the upper students focuses on a cultural response to with issues of climate change. reaches of the sacred Ganges River, climate change by looking at our relationship Georgina Drew will discuss localized percep- to Nature. Its mission is to create a body tions of climate change and the mixed role of work that will come out of an intensive Mathan Ratinam is an Assistant Professor in that Hindu religious interpretations play in interdisciplinary investigation that includes a the School of Design Strategies at Parsons inspiring responses to the decline of the day of discussion and presentations followed The New School for Design. He co-ordinates river’s glacial source. by an expedition down the full length of the the Humanitarian Design Platform and directs Gowanus canal by boat. The workshop is the Humanitarian Design Lab conducting predicated on a belief that visual art can be design research with and advising various Georgina Drew is a postdoctoral scholar in the a form of research and that such research external partners from the humanitarian, India China Institute’s initiative on Everyday makes valuable contributions to a given NGO, and development community including Religion and Sustainable Environments in the discourse. This is not an urban planning the Red Cross (IFRC, American Red Cross), Himalayas. Her work at the institute builds exercise; it is an exercise in imaginative and Oxfam America, World Bank, and the United upon her doctoral studies at the University visual thinking. The results of this workshop Nations (UNHCR, UNISDR and UNU) and of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will be on display at the Sheila C. Johnson has been awarded research grants with the and her extensive research activities in Design Center. role of Principal Investigator from various the Indian and Nepali Himalayas. Drew’s branches of the United Nations and the World dissertation research examined the cultural Bank. Previously at Columbia University, he and religious dimensions of environmental The Canary Project produces art and media directed the Moving Image Lab at Columbia conflict along the upper stretch of the Ganga that deepen public understanding of human- (MILC), a project-based research lab River in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Her induced climate change and energize com- exploring the role of film and animation in work and writing—supported by funding from mitment to solutions. Originally founded in architecture and design, and taught courses the Fulbright Hays, the National Science 2006 as a project to photograph landscapes in the Graduate School of Architecture, Foundation, and UNC-CH—demonstrates the throughout the world where scientists are Planning and Preservation. His work has been influence of religious systems and practices studying the impacts of climate change, it screened in film festivals internationally and on resource management decisions in the has since supported diverse projects involv- he continues to publish in the areas of digital Himalayas. At the India China Institute, Drew ing more than 30 artists, designers, writers, representation for architecture, animation, continues her research while helping to educators, and scientists. Its focus is on and visual effects for film. Trained as an coordinate a network of interdisciplinary cultivating research-intensive projects that architect, he spent his earlier years working scholars that address religious issues and contribute to knowledge building and are at the offices of Daniel Libeskind in Berlin and environmental challenges in diverse contexts. able to communicate that knowledge in a way Diller, Scofidio+ Renfro in New York before She is a five-time Foreign Language Area that both respects complexity and inspires moving into film and animation. He is now a Studies fellow for Hindi, a student of Nepali, respect for life. Canary Project co-founders practicing filmmaker and academic exploring and a Himalayan enthusiast. Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris also how to assist vulnerable communities through speak frequently on the topics of art and design with collaborative projects that bring activism and communicating climate change. together people from the humanitarian and development fields with design researchers and practitioners.

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animated, hand drawn elements, and was a recipient of the 2010 Innovations in Cool Stories for when the Planet Gets Hot II experimental filmmaking to express their AirSpace: WNSR NEW SCHOOL RADIO Education Fund, an initiative of The New and III (New York premiere) personal take on Climate Change. The School Provost’s Office. Mr. Briggs is a part- September 30–December 15, 2011 winner of Cool Stories II was Rob Carter, time faculty member teaching in the New September 30–December 15, 2011 who was awarded an artist residency at La Radio booth broadcasting from the School for General Studies (Media Studies Plasma screens at the Sheila C. Johnson Alquería de los Artistas in Valencia, Spain, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. MA program), and Eugene Lang College Design Center created by the Fundación INSPIRARTE (Cultural Studies and Media, Music). In partnership with WNSR. (fundacioninspirarte.org). In partnership with ARTPORT_making waves Sarah Montague is an award-winning Videos by: Fernando Acquarone (Brazil/ producer/director with over twenty years’ WNSR, the New School’s online college Italy), Michael Alstad (Canada), Monika experience in creating cultural programming Cool Stories III (NY premiere) is the third radio station, will produce radio programs Bravo (US /Colombia), Rob Carter (UK /US), for public radio, including the drama series edition of an art video and animation contest from its AirSpace booth in the gallery, Baptist Coelho (India), Meredith Drum (US), The Radio Stage and the documentaries on Climate Change by ARTPORT_making taking up climate change as a primary Joshua Frankel (US), Anita Glesta (US), Nan Titanic: Unsinkable Myth; They Made America waves. The compilation features 19 videos focus this semester. Students from a González (Venezuela), Richard Jochum (with Sir Harold Evans); and The Fall of the focusing on forests in honor of the United university-wide course taught by James (Austria /US), Matthew Kluber (US), Katja City: Prophetic Classic. Most recently, she Nations International Year of Forests 2011. Briggs III and Sarah Montague will lead in the Loher (Switzerland/China), Lydia Moyer directed the revival of Archibald MacLeish’s The videos comment�������������������������������� on the dangers of defor- programming and operation of the site at (US), Henrique Roscoe (Brazil), Soledad The Fall of the City for the opening of WNYC’s estation and the malaises that follow climate www.newschoolradio.org. WNSR follows the Salamé (Chile/US), Michael Wyshock (US), Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The change, from starvation to disappearing polar model of public radio, seeking to entertain and Marina Zurkow (US). production won a 2009 Gracie Award for bears. Eerie and ominous moods are coun- but also to encourage insightful dialogue with Best Drama. Montague is a former board tered with humorous commentary and sheer talk shows, interviews, and newscasts. Public ARTPORT_making waves is an international member of the Association of Independents beauty. The winner, Sergio Sotomayor, will programs in the gallery and other special arts organization with curatorial offices in Radio and the National Audio Theatre receive an artist residency at Guapamacátaro programming pertaining to the exhibit will in Valencia (Spain), New York, and Zurich Festivals, and is on the faculty of Eugene in Michoacán, Mexico (guapamacataro.org). be available in podcast form on the WNSR (Switzerland) that raises awareness about Lang College, where she teaches a range website. WNSR will also curate a sound art current social and political issues worldwide of radio and audio courses. She has been Videos by: artalquadrat (Gema and Monica competition with highlighted works featured through theme-oriented exhibitions, resi- the recipient of grants from the National del Rey, Spain), Anna Beata Baranska in a listening station at the AirSpace booth in dency programs, and artists collaborations. Endowment for the Arts and the New York (Poland), Andrea Bianconi (Italy/US), Oscar the gallery in December. Current projects explore causes and effects State Council on the Arts. In addition to the Boyson (US), Annie Briard (Canada), Baptist of Climate Change, as well as solutions. Gracie Award, she has been recognized Coelho (India), Sergio Cruz (Portugal/UK), James Briggs III is a mix engineer, sound ARTPORT_making waves aims at creating by the International Radio Festival and Lesser González Alvarez(US),Guillermo designer, recordist, and composer for sonic, sustainable networks of artists, curators, gal- the National Federation of Community Hermosilla Cruzat (Chile), IngridMwangi- visual, and physical media and performance. leries, art collectors, and critics to promote Broadcasters. Montague was also a 1994 RobertHutter (Germany/Kenya), Richard His credits include PBS’ The Supreme a true globalization of the artistic discourse, Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence. Jochum (Austria/US), Wojtek Klakla and Court, We Shall Remain, and several giving a voice to promising artists from all Pierre-Alain Morel (Poland/Switzerland), documentaries for American Experience on over the world. At the same time, ARTPORT_ Lemeh42 (Italy), Eva Marosy-Weide (Austria), PBS, work with Paul Simon and R.E.M., and making waves encourages the cross- Lukás Matejka (Slovakia), Tricia McLaughlin a long-standing collaborative relationship fertilization of art, science, and politics. The (US), Sergio Sotomayor (Spain), Emma with VIA Dance Collaborative. His work has collaborative programs will bring forward Wieslander (Sweden/UK), and Sharon been featured at Cinesonika, the Tribeca new and exciting ways to inspire positive Zhuxiaoyuan (US /China). Film Festival, the Full Frame Documentary changes across borders. ARTPORT_making Film Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater, and waves was founded in 2006 by two curators, Cool Stories II features 17 videos whose many other venues worldwide. He has mixed Corinne Erni and Anne-Marie Melster. In core message is unmistakable: if we destroy numerous programs and features for New 2009, curator and art historian Oliver Orest nature, we threaten our very own existence. York Public Radio, including Fishko Files, Tschirky joined the team. artport-project.org. While some artists use candid wit and Selected Shorts, and the recent Public Radio sarcasm, others work with subtle symbolic Exchange/ WNYC documentary Living Nine imagery. They use footage found on popular Eleven. AirSpace, a joint proposal of Mr. websites like Flickr and YouTube, apply car- Briggs and Parsons School of Constructed toon-like formats of Asian scroll paintings, or Environments Professor Robert Kirkbride, 20 21 RELATED PROGRAMS STUDENT VIDEO CONTEST: Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) Fall Climate Change Public Program Series. ( ) economists—not recyclers—can stop global HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE “New Green City” warming. You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat AFFECT YOU? Saturday, October 8, 2011 tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius— 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. the planet doesn’t notice. In our confrontation Union Square Green Market with climate change, species preservation, Sponsored by GrowNYC. and a planet going off the cliff, it is what The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) and several billion people do that makes a differ- ARTPORT_making waves invite you to respond to ence. The solution? It isn’t science, politics, or TEDC co-sponsors community-oriented even activism. It’s smarter economics. this question. exhibits on New School sustainability initiatives, including information on campus Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Selected work, chosen by a jury, will be screened plant sustainability, AASHE Silver rating, Environmental Defense Fund. He teaches at in a compilation on the SJDC plasma screens at food-related student/faculty projects, class/ Columbia and graduated from both Harvard 2 W. 13th Street from November 15–December 15, 2011. student presentations, New School food and Stanford. He doesn’t eat meat, doesn’t services, Solar Decathlon model, and other drive, and knows full well the futility of his programming. personal choices. Who: How: All currently enrolled New School students 1. Please UPLOAD your video to your Steven Kolmes on an Environmental Brian Geller on Seattle 2030 are welcome to submit. website/vimeo. History of Portland Sustainability District 2. Please EMAIL the following information to Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Tuesday, November 15, 2011 What: [email protected] with subject line: 12:00–1:30 p.m. 6:00–8:00 p.m. Short time-based work that examines this Henry Cohen Conference Room, Orientation “Bark” Room, Sheila C. Johnson question imaginatively. You can be poetic, Climate Change Contest: [Your Name] 72 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Design Center, 2 W. 13th Street, Ground Floor symbolic, scientific, political, narrative, • your first and last name Sponsored by TEDC and Milano Brown Bag Sponsored by TEDC comic, or use any other perspective. You • program/school/division seminar series. can be personal or abstract, global or local, • email address Talk by Brian Geller on going to scale/ focused on NYC or your hometown, inspiring • phone/mobile concentrated efforts in urban sustainability. or polemical. Surprise us! About the work: Steven A. Kolmes, Director, Environmental www.2030district.org/seattle/ Studies Program, Professor of Biology, Molter Format: • Title, year, duration, format/media Chair in Science, University of Portland Quicktime. We are looking for a diversity • Short description (OR) presents an environmental history of Brian Geller is Executive Director of the of approaches: animation, video, or digital • Link where your submission can Portland, especially the genesis of Oregon’s Seattle 2030 District, an interdisciplinary film, photo stories, performance, silent or be viewed urban growth boundary, its unintended social public-private collaborative working to with sound, etc. Please do not send any material, only a link consequences, and its successes. create a groundbreaking high-performance to the site where the work is uploaded. building district in downtown Seattle. With the Architecture 2030 Challenge for Planning Length: providing performance goals, Seattle 2030 15 seconds–3 minutes. Deadline: Gernot Wagner on Smart Economics seeks to develop realistic, measurable, and in- Tuesday, November 1, 2011 October 28, 2011, 12:00 NOON. novative strategies to assist district property 6:00–8:00 p.m. Please email [email protected] by owners, managers, and tenants in meeting Orientation “Bark” Room, Sheila C. Johnson October 1, 2011 if you plan to submit. This is aggressive goals that reduce environmental Design Center, 2 W. 13 Street, Ground Floor not a prerequisite but it helps our planning. impacts of facility construction and opera- Sponsored by TEDC. tions. Its collective efforts aim to establish the District as an example of a financially viable, sustainability focused, private sector Finally: a book that explains why fish are driven effort that maximizes profitability and dying, why eagles aren’t, and why only prosperity for all involved. 22 23 CALENDAR CALENDAR

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY & SUNDAY SEP 30 Conversation with the Curators: David Buckland and Chris Wainwright 6:00–7:00 p.m., Conversation OCT 6 Economics and Climate Change 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag

12 13 15 & 16 What Ifs: Climate Change Asia’s Changing Megadelta Systems Down the Gowanus: Climate in Concrete and Creative Agency 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag Visual Research Workshop 6:30–8:30 p.m., Panel 19 21 Repurpose Compostables New York Book Launch and 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag Reception: Climate Change andCities, 5:00 p.m., Special Event 26 29 & 30 Climate Change: Art, Activism Down the Gowanus: Climate in Concrete and Research Visual Research Workshop 6:30–8:30 p.m., Panel NOV 3 Venice/New York: Waterlines 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag 7 9 10 Climate Manipulation Station New York Mud Pies or A Taste of Designing for Resilience 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag Climate Change: Urban Reforestation 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag in NYC, 7:00 p.m., Performance Under Water: Climate Change, Insurance Risk, and New York Real Estate, 6:30–8:30 p.m., Panel 15 18 What Insects Tell Us: A Rethinking Everyday Religion and Conversation between David Dunn Climate Change in the Himalayas and Hugh Raffles 6:00–8:00 p.m., Symposia 6:30–8:30 p.m., Conversation 29 Southern Discomforts: A Focus on Antarctica 6:30–8:30 p.m., Panel DEC 1 Climate Change Art/Science Dating Game 7:00 p.m., Special Event 6 8 This Clement World A Retreating Goddess? Conflicting 6:30 p.m., Performance Interpretations of Climate Change near the Gangotri Glacier 12:30 p.m., Brown Bag 13 Water, Culture, and Climate Change 6:00–8:00 p.m., Symposia

24 25 NOTES CREDITS

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center At The New School Radhika Subramaniam India China Institute Director/Chief Curator New School for Public Engagement Tishman Environment and Design Center Kristina Kaufman WNSR Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Daisy Wong would like to thank: Assistant Director of the Galleries The curators of U-n-f-o-l-d for the invitation Bairon Garzon to continue the conversation they initiated; Gallery Technician The artists in the exhibition for their provocations and inspiration; Exhibition Design And the following for their good-humored Manuel Miranda and Jiwon Lee collaboration and many contributions to the exhibition and public programs: Exhibition Crew Nelson Choi Stefani Bardin, Jean Barberis, Jim Briggs III, Chun Wei Fu Raphaële Chappe, John Clinton, Joshua Lee Gibson Cohen, Gina Drew, Suzanne Dvells, Corinne Jacqueline Hon Erni, Ashok Gurung, Nina Horstmann, Gwen Christine Sheu Kilvert, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Lisa Veranai Srilapa Phillips, David Scobey, Maurice Sherman, John Wanzel Pamela Tillis, and Christina Vassallo.

Gallery Attendants The exhibition and programs are made possible, in part, by an award from Jasmine Dominguez The New School Green Fund. Matthew Herzfeld Katherine Keogh Lindsay Lai Brandon Markowitz Kendra Mayberry Courtney Moore Adam Rodriguez Hoi Yan Shing Haoer Zheng

Program Partners ARTPORT_making waves Eyebeam Art + Technology Center PositiveFeedback, an inter-institutional collaboration of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Center for Creative Research at NYU, and the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities

26 Information subject to change. PLEASE CHECK WWW.NEWSCHOOL.EDU/SJDC FOR UPDATED INFORMATION

A Hot Wind More Terrible Than Darkness, Buckland/Balkin