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  • Adventive America: Follow the Plants

    Kleinman Forum 220 South 34th Street, Fisher Fine Arts Library 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Examining plants and their agency in nation-building.Adventive America places the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the United States into a broader international context by examining plants and their agency in nation-building. This nontraditional lens explores collectors, collections, and global botanical exchanges between the United States, Indigenous nations, Britain, Spain, Japan, and China, from the early American republic to the present day. Whether shipped in transatlantic Bartram’s boxes in the eighteenth century, showcased at the 1876 Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, emergent in the weedy ballast grounds along the Delaware River, or exchanged as part of the traditional seed-saving practices of

  • Transdisciplinary Climate Exchange: MACH Design Research Network Convening

    Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    A day of exchange centered around the necessary “mess” of interdisciplinary meeting required to understand and address climate risks.A lively, celebratory day of exchange centered around the necessary “mess” of interdisciplinary meeting required to understand and address coastal transformation in the face of climate risks. The day will bring practitioners across disciplines together alongside students to meet, entangle perspectives and approaches, ask questions, and hopefully emerge with fresh information and perspectives to support them in the continuation of their work. Students will gain insights into how their design and planning studies might translate into real-world practices after graduation.