As part of UCL Anthropocene's 'Cultural Ecology: Galvanising Climate Action Across the Arts' research stream, Professor Peg Rawes will examine in a seminar on 24 May 2021 (13:00 - 14:00 BST) human and nonhuman life as 'matters of concern' for contemporary architectural thinking in the year when the UK hosts the UN COP26 in Glasgow.
He will consider how materialist and ecological histories and theories of life and non-life transform our social and architectural futures. Sometimes at a planetary scale, sometimes minute or invertebrate, sometimes singular and collective, these minor ontologies open up architectural thinking to questions of relation and responsibility.
The programme of eight events will unite activist-academics working across the arts to interrogate the following question: ‘How might cultural researchers galvanise more urgent and effective responses to the climate crisis to remedy the severe inadequacy of the actions currently being set into motion by governments and corporations?’
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