Program Overview
Program Overview
To create the cities of tomorrow, architects and designers need to incite a technological evolution, teaching the next generation to use innovative technologies to create BIPV (building-integrated photovoltaic) skyscrapers; personalized public transportation systems; sustainable green spaces; sewage, water treatment, and reclamation infrastructure; and more. During this seminar, we’ll use New York City—with its exceptional resources, people, opportunities, and ideas converging and spurring new avenues of innovation, technology, and thought—to explore the emerging discipline of global urbaneering. Together with a wide range of innovators in the field, we’ll examine design through massive public works and infrastructural support and explore technological interventions that can have profound impacts on the planet as a whole. Intensive design and engineering workshops will be taught by ONE Lab instructors and a host of outside lecturers including world renowned architects, engineers, biologists, ecologists, industrial designers, physicists and artists offering radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of future cities.
Program Activities
Program Activities
Participants will participate in four Future Cities seminar sessions, four Science, Engineering, and Technology and four lectures. Site visits and guided tours of New York City's architectural highlights, urban redevelopment areas, flagship stores, museums, galleries, and art installations—led by trained architects and artists who are actively involved in the transformation and documentation of the city—complement the theories explored during lectures and seminars. Visits to local architectural firms are an important part of the curriculum as well.
Program Objectives
Program Objectives
During this seminar, participants will:
- Gain a broad overview of the global environment of New York City, covering the theory and practice of architecture and design in the city.
- Contextualize the specificity of New York City and its greater region within a larger understanding of architecture's role in the manmade environment and its relationship to sustainability and globalism.
- Gain familiarity and comfort with emerging discipline/industry terms and concepts such as “urbaneering” and “future cities.”
- Explore the role of urban planning and design in creating sustainable living and industry paradigms for a sustainable future.
Seminar Locations
Seminar Locations
Based in New York City; participants fly in and out of New York City.