Скачать или смотреть Dwelling in the Anthropocene: Designing a world for coastal adaptation

Nowhere are the human impacts of climate change more clear than on our coasts. Sites of inequity and vulnerability, coastal communities are already compelled to respond to imminent and present hazards presented by designed and planned exposures to risk. Nikhil Anand ’98 and Rennie Meyers ’15 will explore how the Anthropocene—the era during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment—shapes and is shaped by the built environment. In particular, the conversation will focus on how human settlements can respond and adapt to the critical challenges posed by rising sea levels and climate change, and how community-based knowledge and expert practices might address the exposures and vulnerabilities that have been generated by modern urban planning.

Rennie devises ocean and coastal policy and programs, specializing in offshore wind advocacy and critical ethnographies of coral restoration and coastal infrastructure. Nikhil recently wrapped up an interdisciplinary project, Inhabited Sea, drawing together scholars and researchers working in anthropology, architecture, ecology, film, oceanography and planning, to rethink the practices of urban habitation with and in Mumbai’s rising seas.

(Rennie’s statements on this panel are her own personal views and do not represent those of her employer.)

This event took place on 6/4/21 as a part of the Alumni College 2021 program.