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Book Launch "The Earth that Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" by Kenny Cupers
It is with great pleasure that we are inviting you to:
Land, Design, Empire - A panel discussion on occasion of the publication of "The Earth that Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design"by Kenny Cupers.
In his newest book Kenny Cupers, professor for architectural history and urban studies, traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about human influence on the early environment. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, his book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition.
On the occasion of this publication, Lorena Rizzo, Luregn Lenggenhager, Matthew Vollgraff and Ernest Sewordor will discuss historical relations between land, design, and empire from their respective disciplinary and situated perspectives. Together, they will explore colonial durabilities in the shaping of landscapes, situating these discussions within broader debates on empire and decolonization.
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