Architectural Relations in a Climate Emergency

This talk examines human and nonhuman life as 'matters of concern' for contemporary architectural thinking in the year when the UK hosts the UN COP26 in Glasgow. I 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.

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