U-N-F-O-L-D
A Cultural Response to Climate Change
All events take place in the Kellen Gallery unless otherwise indicated.
For podcasts of events please click on the event title.
Information subject to change. Please check back here for updates.
Download the complete list of programs (Adobe PDF).
Conversation with the Curators: David Buckland and Chris Wainwright
Friday, September 30
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Dean Sarah E. Lawrence talks to the curators of U-n-f-o-l-d.
What Ifs: Climate Change and Creative Agency
Wednesday, October 12
6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Dilip da Cunha, Aviva Rahmani and Susannah Sayler
Moderator: Eve Mosher
Presented in conjunction with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2011.
Climate Change: Art, Activism, and Research
Wednesday, October 26
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Amy Balkin, Adriane Colburn, and Mary Mattingly
Moderator: Lydia Matthews
Presented in conjunction with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2011.
CANCELED -- Under Water: Climate Change, Insurance Risk, and New York Real Estate
Thursday, November 10
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Speakers to be announced. Please check website for updates.
Co-sponsored by The New School for Public Engagement
What Insects Tell Us: A Conversation between David Dunn and Hugh Raffles
Tuesday, November 15
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Southern Discomforts: A Focus on Antarctica
Tuesday, November 29
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Xavier Cortada, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, and Andrea Polli
Moderator: Simone Douglas
New York Mud Pies or A Taste of Climate Change: Urban Reforestation in NYC
Wednesday, November 9
7:00 p.m.
Join a razor, a shiny knife—a culinary performance group that creates educational, social, and
theatrical experiences around the world—for an exploration of climate change in
New York City. Using
the latest culinary techniques, they will create a series of edible info-graphics to evoke the soil structures affecting the thousands of city trees that struggle to shade and cool our five boroughs.
This Clement World
Tuesday, December 6
6:30 p.m.
A work-in-progress presentation of a musical performance piece that speaks to the global climate crisis with poetic urgency.
Performed
by Cynthia Hopkins; designer Jeff
Sugg; director DJ Mendel
Rethinking Everyday Religion and Climate Change in the Himalayas
Friday, November 18
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium (66 Fifth Avenue @ 13th Street)
What
is the relationship between everyday religion and climate change? How,
and to what effect, is this manifested in the Himalayas? Sanjay Chaturvedi, Anil Chitrakar, Faiz Ali Khan, and Lin Bo explore
this topic drawing using case studies from India, Nepal, and
Pakistan. Presented by the India China Institute in collaboration with the
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.
Water, Culture, and Climate Change
Tuesday, December 13
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
In a world of melting glaciers, rising seas, devastating floods, and extensive droughts, the role that climate change plays in exacerbating conditions of water overabundance and scarcity is readily apparent. Barbara Rose Johnston and Anne Rademacher present new research in a public discussion with Georgina Drew about the importance of transforming our relationship with water.
New York Book Launch: Climate Change and Cities
Edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Stephen A. Hammer, and Shagun Mehrotra (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Friday, October 21
5:00 p.m.
A discussion with the editors followed by a reception. Presented in conjunction with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2011.
For video of the event please click here.
Climate Change: Art/Science Dating Game
Thursday, December 1
7:00 p.m.
Mary Miss and Stephanie Pfirman
Moderator David Berreby
All Brown Bag events are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. in the Kellen Gallery.
Economics and Climate Change
Willi Semmler
Thursday, October 6
Asia's Changing Megadelta Systems
Victoria Marshall and Brian McGrath
Thursday, October 13
Venice/New York: Waterlines
Simonetta Moro
Thursday, November 3
Climate Manipulation Station
Klaus Schafler with Klaus Lackner
Monday, November 7
Designing for Resilience
Mathan Ratinam
Thursday, November 10
A Retreating Goddess? Conflicting Interpretations of Climate Change near the Gangotri Glacier
Georgina Drew
Thursday, December 8
Down the Gowanus: Climate in Concrete
Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, October 29-30
Guided tours led by Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler of the Canary Project. Contact the Kellen Gallery for more information.
Cool Stories for when the Planet Gets Hot II and III (New York premiere)
September 30–December 15
View on plasma screens at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.
AirSpace: WNSR NEW SCHOOL RADIO will be broadcasting live from the gallery.
Special thanks to The New School Green Fund for its support.
