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    Designing a Green New Deal, September 13, 9:30am-7:30pm, Philadelphia, PA

  • 13 September 2019
  • Start time : 09:30 AM
  • End time : 07:30 PM
  • Event Host : The Ian McHarg Center
  • Event Location : The McHarg Center, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Green New Deal, Philadelphia, PA
Event Description

We are entering a period of once-unfathomable hope on climate change, where environmental advocates and leaders are staking out an ambitious agenda that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis. These new leaders are articulating their vision in terms of a Green New Deal—a still-abstract set of proposals for decarbonizing the economy, eliminating poverty, creating green, working-class jobs, and retrofitting communities for the coming effects of climate change.

Decarbonizing the US economy would be a massive boost to the fundamentally international project of preventing runaway climate change. Domestically, a Green New Deal would constitute a generational investment in planning and design, reshaping the social and physical landscape of the U.S. in ways matched only by the Industrial Revolution, New Deal, and postwar suburban boom. But the debates around fleshing out the Green New Deal vision have been relatively silent on its enormous implications for the built environment. And there is too little dialogue between Green New Deal proponents and the planning and design professions.

Here we sit, in the throes of a new generation’s ecological crisis, buoyed by an ascendant and broad-based progressive movement, as the most ambitious and interesting environmental and design proposal of the last half-century, a Green New Deal, gains momentum. The entirety of the built environment is at stake. And the design professions—for all of their self-important rhetoric about leading on climate—are missing in action.

A national-scale landscape transformation is coming. We'll all have to decide how best to manage and guide that process. Designers must choose if they want to be an active part of the coalition driving this change in the built environment. If they do, they will have to change the way they operate, becoming public servants as they were during the New Deal. They would also gain the chance to bring extraordinary skills to bear on literally rebuilding the country. Creating landscapes of genuine economic and racial equality will require both mass mobilization and the best possible technical expertise.

Designing a Green New Deal intends to bring a broad array of voices together, placing economists, historians, and designers in conversation with journalists, organizers, elected officials, and other parties engaged in organizing for climate action. This event will serve as the launch of a broader, Green New Deal and the built environment research initiative in The McHarg Center.

 

  • Host Company/Organization Name
    • The Ian McHarg Center
  • Agenda
    • 9:30 | Welcome and Coffee

      10:00 | Beyond Hagiography—Mining the New Deal Legacy
      Featuring
      Jen Light (MIT)
      Nancy Levinson (Places)
      Nicholas Pevzner (Penn)
      Raj Patel (Texas)
      Peggy Deamer (Yale/The Architecture Lobby)

      Moderators
      Karen M'Closkey (Penn)
      Francesca Ammon (Penn)

      12:15 | Lunch Break

      1:30 | Radicalizing Pragmatism—The Nuts and Bolts of a Green New Deal
      Featuring
      Rhiana Gunn-Wright (New Consensus)
      David Roberts (Vox)
      Leah Stokes (UCSB)
      Kerene Taylor, Esq (WE-ACT)

      Moderators
      Allison Lassiter (Penn)
      Ellen Neises (Penn)

      3:30 | Coffee Break

      3:45 | Building Power—Bold Visions for a Green New Deal
      Featuring
      Kate Aronoff (Type Media Center)
      Kate Orff (Columbia)
      Varshini Prakash (Sunrise)
      Stephanie Kelton (Stony Brook)
      Julian Brave Noisecat (350)

      Moderators
      Daniel Aldana Cohen (Penn)
      Billy Fleming (Penn)

      5:45 | Break

      6:00 | Designing a Green New Deal
      Featuring
      Jane McAlevey in conversation with Naomi Klein and a Special Guest
  • Sponsors
    • Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, The Architecture Lobby, The McHarg Center, UPenn Populations Studies Center, PennPraxis, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
  • Cost
    • FREE Event
  • Event type
    • Panel Discussion

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