Lectures

Taka Sarui MiYuKu LLC. Visualizing Food Networks and Making a Case for Urban & Local Agriculture   Taka Sarui is a co-founding principal of XLXS Design, principle of MiYuKu LLC, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Parsons New School and has been a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. She is deeply [...]

  Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours, architect, urban planner, author and professor of architecture, has developed a permanent work on the articulation of scales, defining himself as an architect of the territory.  From the drawing of shelves to furniture in a library to the project of a large metropolitan area, Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours inscribes his work in a continuity of thought creating [...]

John Mandyck Urban Green Council Building Forward: The Future of Urban Climate Policies   John Mandyck joined Urban Green Council in 2018 as its first-ever CEO after capping a 25-year career as Chief Sustainability Officer for United Technologies Corporation. He also serves as a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public [...]

  Håvard Breivik is an architect, assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), and member of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency standby roster, NORCAP. With a decade of experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts, Håvard has been deployed to United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal, North Macedonia, Hungary, and New York. Håvard is [...]