A symposium on energy and architecture organized by The Architectural League of New York through The Five Thousand Pound Life project and Columbia University GSAPP through The Energy Issue.

The event is open and free to the public.
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Energy is power. Even minor disruptions in the discovery, treatment, distribution or consumption of energy can produce major disruptions in social, political, economic, environmental and cultural structures. Energy is a lever unlike any other, and those who have access and influence to this lever closely guard it. The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue is an afternoon symposium in which architects will lead discussions on the energy issue with the investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, policy experts, journalists, and filmmakers closest to the power of energy. Jeremy Leggett, Chairman of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, will deliver a keynote address on the risk of stranded financial assets and the uncertain valuation of energy corporations in the face of climate science and policy.

Schedule

2:00 – 2:10 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League of New York
Troy Conrad Therrien, Director, The Energy Issue, Columbia GSAPP

2:10 – 3:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Jeremy Leggett, Social Entrepreneur; Chairman, Carbon Tracker Initiative; Author of The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era and The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
Michelle Addington, Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Rachel Boynton, Filmmaker; Producer & Director of Big Men
William Braham, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Ed Crooks, US Industry and Energy Editor, Financial Times
Carola Hein, Professor in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College
Adrian Lahoud, Reader at The Bartlett School of Architecture

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Closing Conversation
Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League of New York
Kate Gordon, Vice President & Director, Energy and Climate Program, Next Generation
Jeremy Leggett, Chairman, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Mark Wigley, Dean, Columbia GSAPP

The Five Thousand Pound Life is an initiative of The Architectural League of New York on new ways of thinking, talking, and acting on architecture, climate change, and our economic future. It is supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.

Architectural League programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This project is also supported by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of The Architectural League.

The Energy Issue is a Columbia University GSAPP initiative to make energy a cultural issue, launched in partnership with Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®.
 

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