Conversations and presentations will be organized around three themes:
- design ACTIVISM / ADVOCACY in the Terrain of Water
- design STRUCTURE / INFRASTRUCTURE in the Terrain of Water
- design IMAGING / IMAGINING in the Terrain of Water
Participants include: Teng Chye Khoo, executive director of the Centre for Liveable Cities; Mihir Shah, co-founder of Samaj Pragati Sahayog, one of India’s largest grass-roots initiatives for water and livelihood security; film-maker Peter Hutton; UNESCO consultant, Pietro Laureano; Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of the 2009 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture; Ila Berman, architect and founding director of New Orleans URBANBuild; landscape architects Kongjian Yu, Anne Spirn, Elizabeth Mossop, and Tilman Latz; biologist and applied ecologist John Todd; and many others.
This symposium was conceived and shaped by Anuradha Mathur, and organized with the assistance of Catherine Bonier.
Click Here to Register
Click Here to view other PennDesign: "In the Terrain of Water" events
Click Here to view the schedule
PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future