May 19, 2023
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
European Cultural Centre
Palazzo Michiel
Strada Nuova – 4391 Campo Santi Apostoli
30121 Venice, Italy
EVENT
The call for transpecies design proposes that humans, as co-denizens of a shared planet, must shift from an anthropocentric mindset in exchange for a worldview in service of the earth’s magnificent biodiversity. Some of our neighbors are known and familiar, such as plants, birds, and bees. Others, like microbes and subterranean organisms, remain abstract and easily overlooked. Through design we have an opportunity and responsibility to improve not only the quality of human lives, but also those of our symbiotic neighbors, both big and small. Through design, we can acknowledge the damage our predecessors have inflicted upon the earth by restoring and revitalizing damaged environments, leaning on and learning from nature’s own incredible designs. The transpecies design symposium will explore various approaches on how to realize and put to work transpecies design principles.
All Transpecies Design Symposium participants will be invited to attend the opening of the Transpecies Design exhibit and the ECC Space, Time, Existence exhibition opening at Palazzo Bembo, 5:30 p.m.,
May 19. Due to the popularity of the event, the symposium is only taking information for its waitlist.
SPEAKERS
Head, Department of Architecture
School of Architecture & Environment
University of Oregon
ICREA Research Professor, Philosophy
Pompue Fabra University
Dean
College of Design
Senior Fellow
Design Futures Council
University of Oregon
Affiliate Faculty
University of Texas at Arlington
Professor, Bioacoustics
Sorbonne
Student
Architecture
University of Oregon
Principal & Founding Partner, R+B
Associate Dean
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Tulane University
Interim Director
School of Art and Design
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Landscape Architect
Assistant Professor
Landscape Architecture Department
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Lecturer, Academic Coordinator, and Doctoral Researcher at the ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture
Principal of Terreform X
Director of Design at Terreform ONE
Interim Director
Institute for Health and the Built Environment
University of Oregon
Spatial Justice Fellow
College of Design
University of Oregon
President & Chief Executive Officer,
DesignIntelligence
Associate Professor
Art and Ecology; Landscape Architecture
University of New Mexico
Architect and Founder
Terreform ONE
Assistant Professor
Temple University
Director
Design and Innovation of Sustainable Cities Program
UC Berkeley
Graduate Student
Architecture
University of Oregon
Product Designer
Artist
Assistant Professor
School of Design and Creative Technology
University of Texas, Austin
Faculty Member
Landscape Architecture
Harvard University
Professor
Department of Architecture
Associate Director
Environmental Studies Program
Director of Academic Programs
Provost’s Environment Initiative
University of Oregon
Student
Product Design
University of Oregon
Assistant Professor
Interior Architecture
University of Oregon
Industrial designer
Art Director
UO Grad
Distinguished Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Professor and Chair of FIU Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design
Florida International University
Principal & Founding Partner, R+B
Student
Landscape Architecture
University of Oregon
Blue Ribbon Studio Manager
Creative Outreach
Nike
Product Design Faculty
University of Oregon
AGENDA
Morning
10:00 am – Welcome
10:15 am
Mark Fretz
Microbial Tectonics
11:00 am
Panel: Co-habitation
Sarah Broughton
Melanie Fessel
Gabriel Kaprielian
Rosalea Monacella
Wilson W. Smith III
Moderator: Dave Gilmore
11:45 am
Olivier Adam
From humpback whale songs to interaction with them
12:30 pm – Refreshments
Afternoon
1:00 pm
Janet Laurence
Entangled Gardening
1:45 pm
Panel: Co-creation
Catherine Harris
Jiabao Li
David Rothenburg
Roberto Rovira
Moderator: Martina Decker
2:30 pm
Santiago Zabala
Why does the Future lie in “l’avenir“? The Philosophy of Warnings
5:30 pm
Private Reception
European Culture Center
Palazzo Bembo
Riva del Carbon, 30124
Venice
DIRECTORS
Dean
College of Design
Senior Fellow
Design Futures Council
University of Oregon
Affiliate Faculty
University of Texas at Arlington
Head, Department of Architecture
School of Architecture & Environment
University of Oregon
SPONSORS
