Panel

As the distinction between commerce and leisure is increasingly blurred, public space has morphed into a structure that is semi-private, semi-governmental and facilitates both commerce and entertainment. Architects, artists and urban historians convene in this panel to consider how sustainable design—with its emphasis on energy conservation, efficiency, environmentally reflexive material specification etc.—has been deployed in contemporary public space through developers’ initiatives and government subsidies. What claims does the city stake on these new sites by fiscally supporting such developments? What is the client’s agenda in financing them? How does the public interact with spaces whose infrastructure is intrinsically linked to that of the larger community? Is that interdependency reflected in people’s interaction with each other?

Moderator
Joel Towers, Associate Provost for Environmental Studies, Director, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School

Participants
Amale Andraos and  Dan Wood, WORKac, New York
John Krieble, Director, Office of Sustainable Design, City of New York Department of Design and Construction
Victoria Marshall, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, Urban Design Program
Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Associate Professor, Parsons The New School of Design

Co-organized with The Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Humanities Department at The New School and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School.

This event is presented as part of the Vera List Center’s program cycle on “The Public Domain.”