Semester:
- Professor: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
- Term: Spring
- Days: T, Th
- Time: 2:00-6:00PM
- School: Graduate School of Design
- Course ID: 200776
In the present modus operandi of global construction, sustainability is a fallacy and an impossible endeavor. Construction relies intensively on resource extraction: concrete, steel, glass, and brick remain the most prevalently used materials along with a myriad of petroleum-based products that require energy-intensive transformation processes. While the building industry is covering its tracks by attempting material re-invention, dirtying further terminologies such as ‘sustainability’, ‘durability’ and ‘green’, it has become unmanageable to ignore the complicit role that design disciplines play in environmental degradation, social injustice, and climate crisis. The studio seeks to explore beyond the provocative idea that not only is new construction destructive, but it is also unnecessary. What happens if we stop building anew?