Global Design NYU

05/13/2025

Our contribution to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, May 10 – Nov. 23, 2025.

If civilization is falling apart, how do we preserve our heritage? The nonprofit architectural research group Terreform ONE offers a radical solution: encoding architectural knowledge into seaweed DNA to create a living time capsule.

02/13/2025

We are going to Venice!

Coding Plants
A Sustainable Artificial Reef and Living Kelp Archive for the Ocean

19th International Architecture Exhibition: Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, 2025

01/29/2025

Fresh from the press! I'm out with a new book. Here is the publisher's pitch:
The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke’s ‘father’, is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These are elitist stories that more often than not ignore the suffering and violence of the bomb to laypeople in general, and to marginalised groups in particular. Starting with the gruesome mining of uranium by First Nation people in northern Canada, and continuing with the racialist culture of uranium enrichment in the Atomic City of Oak Ridge, Peder Anker offers alternative perspectives. It’s a story of how the bikini swimwear came to fetishise the nuclear bombardment of the Bikini Atoll with its celebration of ‘sex bombs’ and (an)atomic ‘bombshells’. Our current global warming fears also hearken back to ordinary citizens wondering if atomic bombs would blow up the entire sky. If some of this was news to you, it might have to do with how the story of nuclear bombs has been told.

06/01/2024

"If you want to better the world, try a good laugh rather than a moral reprimand."

I am proud to be in the latest issue of TAD, Technology/Architecture + Design, with an article co-authored with Marty Matlock, Malkin Shoshan & Hazem Rashed-Ali about climate change.

"Views from the Outside" Technology|Architecture + Design, 8(1), 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2024.2308499

03/22/2023

THINK BIG!

Please join professor Louise Harpman and the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study for the 11th Annual BIG WALK on April 1st, 2023! No fooling!
The BIG WALK is free and open to the public but registration is required. See you on the waterfront!
RSVP here https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2023/04/big-walk-2023--atlantic-basin-to-gowanus-canal.html?fbclid=IwAR1OvxpESJiElkxH5hO6xOgOxdR24EGeb9g7TyS4W_k5GHX2Vv2jByKNpyw

GDNYU: an exhibit & symposium for innovative architecture, sustainable design & urban landscaping. Stay tuned for our NEW BOOKS and ARTICLES!

07/22/2021

Hello BIG WALKers! We're walking Governors Island this year on September 18th! Please save the date. Details will follow!

06/30/2019

06/24/2019

The COLLAPSE exhibition is still open in Berlin. At NYU Berlin, St. Agnes, Alexandrinenstraße 118. June 6-July 11, 2019.

06/10/2019

Opening night for the The COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES and CULTURE exhibition. Berlin NYU at St. Agnes, Alexandrinenstraße 118, June 6-July 11, 2019.

06/10/2019

Collapse: Climate, Cities, and Culture exhibition in Berlin. Open until July 11, 2019, NYU Berlin at St. Agnes, Alexandrinenstraße 118.