TERRAIN 2, April 9 2012_Click HERE for schedule and registration.
 
 
TERRAIN 1, April 2011
 
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Friday Opening Remarks
Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor _Welcome
Anuradha Mathur _Introduction
 
design ACTIVISM / ADVOCACY in the Terrain of Water (Session 1)
Conversation framed by moderator, Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Experience + Experiments, Activism + Government
Teng Chye Khoo _from scarcity to opportunity
    Mahadev Raman, Alan Greenberger, Teddy Cruz, Herbert Drieseitl
 

design STRUCTURE / INFRASTRUCTURE in the Terrain of Water (Session 2)

     [sponsored in part by Penn Design Black Student Alliance]
Dilip da Cunha _waters everywhere
Kazi Ashraf _water as ground
Teddy Cruz _politics of water
Walter Hood _everyday water
Herbert Dreiseitl _working fluid
     Nancy Levinson (discussion)
 

design IMAGING / IMAGINING in the Terrain of Water (Session 3)

     [sponsored by OLIN]

Lindsay Bremner _Beach
Peter Hutton _Study of a River, At  Sea
Nataly Gattegno _Aurora Project
     Helene Furjan (discussion)
 
design ACTIVISM / ADVOCACY in the Terrain of Water (Session 4)
Catherine Bonier _emblem, instrument, equilibrium
Anne Whiston Spirn _West Philadelphia,  Mill Creek, the future
Howard Neukrug _response
     Howard Neukrug (discussion)
 
design IMAGING / IMAGINING in the Terrain of Water (Session 5)
Gallery Talk  –  Conversation framed by moderator, Annette Fierro
David Brownlee, Charles Waldheim, Anne Whiston Spirn, Alison Hirsch
     Nancy Levinson (discussion)
 

design STRUCTURE / INFRASTRUCTURE in the Terrain of Water (Session 6)

     [sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture]

James Corner _Introduction
Kongjian Yu _Design With Water

 

Saturday Opening Remarks
Yadiel Rivera Diaz _Gathering Yesterday
Catherine Bonier _Projecting Today
 
design IMAGING / IMAGINING in the Terrain of Water (Session 7)
Simon Richter _Betting on Water/ reading Faust
Doug Jerolmack _tuning + constraints/ Mississippi Delta
Elizabeth Mossop _Mississippi delta project
Hans Venhuizen _long live limitations/ Netherlands
       Christopher Marcinkoski   + David Hsu (discussion)
 

design ACTIVISM / ADVOCACY in the Terrain of Water (Session 8)

     [sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research]
Ila Berman _amplifying extremes: inundation v. scarcity/ New Orleans + LA
Ana Maria Duran Calisto _contested flows/ Amazon basin
Christian Werthmann _pollution and propaganda/ Cantinho do Céu in Sao Pãulo
     Eugenie Birch (discussion)
 
design STRUCTURE / INFRASTRUCTURE in the Terrain of Water (Session 9)
Marion Weiss _cultural watermarks
Pietro Laureano _traditional water practices/ Sahara
Diébédo Francis Kéré _bridging the gap/ Europe + Africa
     Randall Mason (discussion)
 
design STRUCTURE / INFRASTRUCTURE in the Terrain of Water (Session 10)
David Leatherbarrow _The Horizon of All Horizons
Iñaki Echeverria + Dr. Margarita Gutierrez _Texcoco Lake
Tilman Latz _from engineered to poetic waters
     (discussion)
 
design ACTIVISM / ADVOCACY in the Terrain of Water (Session 11)
William Braham _ecology + technology
John Todd _healing the waters 
     (discussion)
 
 
Closing Remarks
Anuradha Mathur
Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor

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We appreciate the generous support of PennDesign, as well as the University of Pennsylvania's Provost's office “Year of Water” grant program. We are tremendously grateful to the Centre for Liveable Cities for their presenting sponsorship, as well as to Penn Institute for Urban Research, Center for the Advanced Study of India, OLIN, James Corner Field Operations, and Penn Design Black Student Alliance for their support. Our media partner, Places, has been instrumental in promoting this event.