Marc Angélil, AGPS ARCHITECTURE

Описание: Monday 24 April 2023, Archizoom EPFL

00:00 Introduction by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
02:05 Lecture by Marc Angélil

For this third talk of the Superonda lecture series at Archizoom, the architect Marc Angélil presents his newest book Flux Redux: 9 Sites of Experimentation in Stocks and Flows, a narrative on the ambivalent role of technology in architecture when trying to mitigate architecture’s impact on the environment.

This talks series called "Mercury Rising: Architecture Beyond Greenwashing" is organised by Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and RIOT lab at EPFL.

Because it relies on extracted materials, isn’t construction unsustainable by design? Pressure is increasing for the sector actors’ to diligently address the harm caused by the built environment, from new construction to usage and demolition, begging the question of whether real ‘sustainability’ in architecture and planning is possible. For the industry, the temptation is great to adopt strategies of simulated commitment instead of investing in actual change toward less emissions. NGOs have called out large companies for ‘low integrity’ pledges, pointing at the systemic social, political, and ecological injustice the built environment creates via material, wealth, culture, and labor extractivism (Silke Mooldijk, Thomas Day, Sybrig Smit, Eduardo Posada, Frederic Hans, Harry Fearnehough, Aki Kachi, and Takeshi Kuramochi Carsten Warnecke, Niklas Höhne, Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022 - Cologne: New Climate Institute, Carbon Market Watch, 2022).

While institutionalized greenwashing hollowed the term ‘sustainability,’ how do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening universalistic understanding of a ‘sustainability beneficial to all’? What emancipatory forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionized construction modes? How to face the mistakes of the past and form new values grounded in humility? In this lecture series, we will discuss how the discipline of architecture corrects course in the face of a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude—beyond greenwashing.