FOUNDATIONS : CRUST

Carla Leitao

The crust of the Earth and the deep time and radical hyper-ethics of memory markers for nuclear waste storage facilities.

FOUNDATIONS : CRUSTTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 12-2PM EST (NY time)SPEAKERS: THOMAS KLEIN,  TEI CARPENTERFree event - registration required.Image Credit: Testbed Core Sample / Courtesy Agency-AgencyNuclear  waste storage is one of the many legacies we embed in the crust of the  Earth, along with an hyper-ethical system of memory markers that aims to  prevent intrusion and its consequences. "Testbed" is a memory marker  project for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) facility that  presents a novel idea for message permanence in a changing ecosystem.  This session looks at the challenges of creating materials that outlast  our lives and imaginations, the regulatory perspectives that think about  deep futures, and mechanisms for embracing and following dynamic  systems in search of identity/message persistence.Thomas KleinMr.  Klein has practiced in the field of Environmental stewardship, clean  up, review and design for the past 40+ years.  Mr. Klein received his  Bachelors’ degree in Biology from Emporia State University in 1980 and  his Masters Degree in Environmental Biology in 1984.  Mr. Klein has been  involved with the regulatory compliance aspects of the Waste Isolation  Pilot Plant for the last 20 years.WIPP: https://www.wipp.energy.gov/Tei CarpenterTei  Carpenter is an architectural designer, educator and founder of  Agency—Agency, an award-winning New York City based architecture and  design studio. Her design and research work has been supported by a  number of international organizations including the New York State  Council on the Arts and BMW Mini. As an educator, she has taught design  studios and seminars at Brown University, Columbia GSAPP, Rice  University and the University of Toronto.Agency—Agency  has been honored as one of the recipients of the 2021 League Prize by  the Architectural League of New York, the 2018 New Practices New York  award by the American Institute of Architects, as a Next Progressives by Architect Magazine, and featured in Domus Magazine’s 2019 list of the Best 100 Architecture Firms.http://agency-agency.us/FOUNDATIONS seriesHosted by Carla LeitaoAny  act of design integrates the foundations that ground us by both  willfully ignoring and also actively relearning those foundations. The  concept of the Anthropocene - accompanied by the Anthrobscene, or the  Novacene - helped name and point at processes, contexts, figures,  diagrams and agents of the transformation of our ‘ground’.  With  these reframings, we begin processes of inquiry into how to inherit  pasts, inhabit presents and what to lay as groundworks or structuring  foundations for an uncertain future.The FOUNDATIONS Series asks what  layers will we purposely engrave, carry, remember and honor; and which  clean slates will we want to produce - which assemblies will we step  onto/into?Inspired  by the increasingly connected "Spaceship Earth" (as named by  Buckminster Fuller), the FOUNDATIONS series zooms into key moments of  written material, systems, ideas around world building, making and  thinking - proposing discussions on the new futures for life and  livability, envisioned for our shared planet and beyond.FOUNDATIONS is a series of events, convened by Carla Leitao, at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion, Sezione del Padiglione Italia, as part of the "Space and Planetary Design" group under the Creative Directorship of Ed Keller. The Virtual Italian Pavilion curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University and Alessandro Melis Portsmouth University titled CITYX Venice responds to ‘How will we live together?' curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is open until the 21st of November.@cityxvenice #italianvirtualpavillion  #cityxvenice #ivp2021 #labiennaledivenezia #IVP3”               CARLA LEITAO is an architect and writer living and working in New York, Co-Founder with Ed Keller of AUM Studio and Spec.AE.  Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Architecture  where she explores the intersection of architecture, urban systems, technology, ubiquitous cultures and emergent materiality through immersive environments (https://www.clatcraive.net/). Leitao's work and events at the Venice Biennale are part of the "Space and Planetary Design Group" by Creative Director Ed Keller, for the Italian Virtual Pavilion.

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