The Oceanic Turn

Il ciclo di conferenze “Climate change(s) design” intende avviare un dibattito interdisciplinare sul tema “cambio di clima e progetto”. Come la progettazione e il disegno del territorio in particolare stanno modificandosi in relazione ai cambiamenti ambientali attualmente in corso? Quale è il ruolo del progettista nel quadro più ampio? Gli incontri affronteranno il tema raccogliendo contributi anche esterni alle discipline progettuali.

The conference series “Climate Change(s) Design” aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate on climate change and design. Lectures will focus on how the discipline of design, and landscape design in particular, is being reformulated in the light of the environmental changes we are currently observing. The series eventually tries to shed some light on the transforming role of the designer within the broader frame.

Professore associato in Architettura del paesaggio presso l'Università di Harvard – Graduate School of Design, co-direttore dello studio-laboratorio di progettazione del paesaggio OPSYS, Pierre Bélanger si occupa di paesaggi infrastrutturali spaziando dall’Ecologia all’Ingegneria e all’Urbanistica.

È autore del volume di prossima pubblicazione “Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism beyond Engineering” (MIT Press, 2014) e curatore del “Landscape Infrastructures DVD” (Canadian National Research Council, 2009). I suoi scritti recenti sono “Urbanism beyond Engineering” (Infrastructure Sustainability & Design, 2012), “The Agronomic Landscape” (GAM, 2011), “Regionalization” (JOLA, 2010), “Redefining Infrastructure” (Ecological Urbanism, 2010), "Landscape as Infrastructure" (Landscape Journal, 2009).

Pierre Bélanger is associate professor of landscape architecture and co-director of the MDes Postgraduate Design Research Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and co-Director of OPSYS. Bélanger teaches and coordinates graduate courses on the convergence of ecology, infrastructure, media and urbanism in the interrelated fields of design, communications, planning and engineering.

He is author of the forthcoming book, “Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism beyond Engineering” (MIT Press, 2014), and editor of the “Landscape Infrastructures DVD” (Canadian National Research Council, 2009). Recent publications include “Urbanism beyond Engineering” (Infrastructure Sustainability & Design, 2012), “The Agronomic Landscape” (GAM, 2011), “Regionalization” (JOLA, 2010), “Redefining Infrastructure” (Ecological Urbanism, 2010), "Landscape as Infrastructure" (Landscape Journal, 2009).