Symposia
The 50th anniversary of the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture
Environment, Reconsidered
When founded in 1967, the Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D.) Program offered a radically new way to understand and study the built environment in an architecture school setting by proposing a new object of study: an “environment” comprised of not only of masterpiece architecture, but of structures of all kinds, as well as infrastructure, technological systems, natural elements, symbolic systems, and the forces that shape this new totality. This symposium, convened by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, will include presentations from prior and current faculty and students of the M.E.D. Program and will celebrate the legacy of the program, which has enriched and complicated our understanding of our built and natural environment and helped launch careers in an equally wide range of fields: academia, journalism, curation, public policy, technology, real estate, and research.
Symposium program
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Keynote address Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester “How to make architecture political?” Hastings Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Sign up for “Oral histories: archiving the environment” Multiple locations, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Afternoon session Hastings Hall, 3:00 p.m.
Peggy Deamer, Yale University Federica Vannucchi, Princeton University Peyton Hall, Historic Resources Group Peter Soland, Civiliti Rosamond Fletcher, Design Trust for Public Space Dean Sakamoto, Dean Sakamoto Architects / SHADE I-Fei Chang, Urban Link Iben Falconer, Columbia University
Keynote address Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune “Architecture criticism and political acts” Hastings Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Morning session Hastings Hall, 9:30 a.m.
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University Jessica Varner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kathleen John-Alder, Rutgers University Neyran Turan, University of California, Berkeley Enrique Ramirez, Ball State University Daniel Barber, University of Pennsylvania
Afternoon session Hastings Hall, 1:00 p.m.
Britt Eversole, Syracuse University Molly Steenson, Carnegie Mellon University Tim Culvahouse, Architect AnnMarie Brennan, University of Melbourne McLain Clutter, University of Michigan Francesca Ammon, University of Pennsylvania Enrique Larrañaga, Universidad Simón Bolívar Jala Makhzoumi, American University of Beirut Thomas Forget, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Donald Watson, Architect Edward Eigen, Harvard University
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