Wed Apr. 22nd, 12:00pm @ GR101:

Earth Day for Posthumans.

On Friday, April 22nd at 12:00pm, Ariane Lourie Harrison will join students for a talk on posthuman. This event is part of the ArchiteXX Series and was organized by Danielle Signor (B.Arch), Ellan Wong (B.Arch), and Catherine Walker (B.Arch) Professor Lydia Kallipoliti will moderated the discussion.

“The Anthropocene period, characterized by the planetary impact of human activity on the environment, produces a posthuman territory: no longer a docile nature nor neutral environment, it is a heterogeneous assemblage of human, animal, and technology bound in an increasingly intimate struggle over the Earth’s limited resources. While architecture has produced varied types of inhabitation, the discipline is historically anthropocentric. Harrison Atelier’s work combines fiction, performance, and design to challenge architecture’s anthropocentrism; the firm’s speculative and built projects develop cohabitation strategies for multiple species.”

Ariane Lourie Harrison is an architect, educator, and co-founder of Harrison Atelier. Ariane has taught at the Yale School of Architecture since 2006, in the graduate and undergraduate studio and design sequences and in the graduate history/theory sequence. She is also currently teaching at Pratt Institute GAUD. She is the editor of Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Routledge, 2013). Ariane worked at Eisenmann Architects (May 2006 through August 2008). Harrison is the editor of Ten Canonical Buildings by Peter Eisenmann (Rizzoli, 2008). Prior to starting her practice, Harrison received her Ph.D in architectural history from the Institute of Fine Arts NYU with a thesis titled, “Mass-Produced Aura: Thonet and the Market for Modern Design, 1930-1953”, M.Arch from Columbia University and an AB, summa, in architectural history from Princeton University and is a LEED AP and registered architect in the state of New York.