urbanNext podcasts aim to expand architecture to rethink cities.
urbanNext exchanges include the Nature of Enclosure series, conducted by Jeffrey S. Nesbit, which explores the status of enclosure in the design fields and its impact on contemporary forms of capital, culture, and politics.
urbanNext talks look into topics under consideration and current issues that affect architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture with the most relevant professionals.
What if infrastructure could breathe, adapt, evolve? Living Infrastructures signals a shift—from static systems to dynamic, responsive ecologies. These are infrastructures that do more than support urban life; they participate in it.
They sense their surroundings. They metabolize energy. They learn from their users. Built from biological and technological hybrids, they redefine the edge between organism and architecture.
Imagine skins that regulate climate like leaves, surfaces that respond to touch, structures that grow, decay, and regenerate. This is not architecture as object—but as system, as interface, as actor.
Living infrastructures expand the role of design: not only to construct, but to cultivate. They embed cognition into matter, embed ethics into form, and embed cities into the cycles of life itself.
In this new paradigm, buildings are not just built—they are grown. Systems are not fixed—they adapt. The city is not a machine—it’s an ecosystem.
For architects, planners, and landscape designers, this is a call to think metabolically, design ecologically, and build responsively. Infrastructure, reimagined—not as inert support, but as a living weave in the fabric of the urban.
19 Dec 2022
Green New Deal Landscapes | session 8 - Danika Cooper & Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design.
Alfredo is joined by Danika Cooper and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió to talk about indigenous practices in landscape design and how they can be crucial in tackling not only the climate emergency but also social injustice.
The conversation is a follow-up on the article The Red Deal: Decolonising Climate Action published in AD: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.2776
Learn more about Danika Cooper’s work:
http://www.danikacooper.com/
https://ced.berkeley.edu/people/danika-cooper
Learn more about Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió’s work:
https://usp.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Shvartzberg_Manuel.html
https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/productive-universals-specific-situations/
This space has been sponsored by Actar Publishers (http://actar.com/) and urbanNext.net (http://urbannext.net/).
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The urbanNext_exchanges series is curated by Ricardo Devesa (https://urbannext.net/contributors/ricardo-devesa/) and Marta Bugés (https://urbannext.net/contributors/marta-buges/). Feel free to contact us via email at inputbox@urbannext.net (mailto:inputbox@urbannext.net) if you want to comment on the podcast or share your work with us.
12 Dec 2022
Green New Deal Landscapes | session 7 - Billy Fleming & Douglas Spencer
Green New Deal Landscapes is a series hosted by Jose Alfredo Ramírez and Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, both co-directors of AA Groundlab. Each session discusses the relationship between policy making and our environment and explores how we can tackle climate change through landscape design.
Alfredo and Clara are joined by Billy Fleming and Douglas Spencer to discuss the role of the architecture profession in tackling climate change and social justice.
The conversation is a follow-up on the article Crises and Contestations: The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal published in AD: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.2769
Learn more about Billy Fleming’s work:
https://mcharg.upenn.edu/
https://islandpress.org/books/blueprint-coastal-adaptation
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/books/design-nature-now
Learn more about Douglas Spencer’s work:
https://spatialregister.wordpress.com/
https://birkhauser.com/books/9783035621648
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/architecture-of-neoliberalism-9781472581532/
This space has been sponsored by Actar Publishers (http://actar.com/) and urbanNext.net (http://urbannext.net/).
For the most engaging publications on architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture visit:
http://actar.com/
For access to exclusive digital content subscribe to:
https://urbannext.net/
The urbanNext_exchanges series is curated by Ricardo Devesa (https://urbannext.net/contributors/ricardo-devesa/) and Marta Bugés (https://urbannext.net/contributors/marta-buges/). Feel free to contact us via email at inputbox@urbannext.net (mailto:inputbox@urbannext.net) if you want to comment on the podcast or share your work with us.
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