video-lectures series Climate change(s) design organized by Laura Cipriani e Roberto Pasini

The conference series “Climate Change(s) Design” aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate on climate change and design. Lectures will focus on how the discipline of design, and landscape design in particular, is being reformulated in the light of the environmental changes we are currently observing. The series eventually tries to shed some light on the transforming role of the designer within the broader frame. Visiting Professor in Landscape Ecology at the Harvard School of Design, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Erle Ellis is a leading theorist of what scientists increasingly describe as the Anthropocene, the age characterized by the presence of humans on the planet. His research investigates the ecology of human landscapes at local to global scales with the aim of informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene.