“The city gives the illusion that the Earth does not exist”, Robert Smithson 1968This seminar will explore the term environment and its evolution through the lens of urban territories facing the reality of climate change. We will start at the founding of the environmental movement in the late 60s, with the goal of exploring the multiple ways the environment has figured in the past and present of our discipline: environment and energy, technology, nature, (in)justice, infrastructure, atmosphere, fear. Global cities will be our test bed to look to the future: territories that make the environment seem remote, but are already in a liminal state of transition due to our changing climate. Some cities are fortifying, others are letting the waters in or burning their edges, few are defying reality and starting anew, and others are transforming into monstrous amalgams of technology, nature and infrastructure. 

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