Posts filed under ‘Media’
Design Against Extinction
This article reviews the eco-social design work of students at the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University over the last decade. Environmental justice movements and the effects of global warming pose significant challenges to the architecture of dwellings, landscapes, and urban design communities. In response, students have placed socially and ecologically sensitive projects at the center of their design education. The justifiable moral outrage of our students has prompted us and them to rethink the methods by which we teach and imagine social environmentalism from the perspective of equity, inclusion, and the biosphere.
“Design Against Extinction at New York University,” with Mitchell Joachim, Spool, 10:1 (2023), 121-132. [PDF]
Op-eds on the Oppenheimer film
“The stories ‘Oppenheimer’ didn’t tell” Washington Post, March 15, 2024. [PDF]
“Årets verste film” Klassekampen, March 13, 2024. [PDF]
Cool Course: Walking New York City
A Gallatin first-year seminar explores the meaning and history of traveling on foot. Eileen Reynolds and Tracey Friedman write about my freshmen course on walking. NYU News, December 14, 2023.
To Malta with love (but not for the cars)
“I have a simple message for my new Maltese friends: rethink your transportation policies by encouraging public transport, biking, scooters, and walking instead of cars.”
“To Malta with love (but not for the cars)“, The Times of Malta, June 20, 2023. [PDF]
The Cooper Union Promotes Russian Architecture. Why?
The School of Architecture at Cooper Union promotes Soviet architecture in the midst of the Ukrainian Village in Manhattan. I argue that they should stop doing so, and instead support the war-torn nation. My opinions are in bold.
Statements by Ukrainians on Cooper Union’s Facebook page here (1/18/23).
Read my first op-ed here (1/21/23) and the version edited by Archinect here (1/25/23).
Read Cooper Union’s statements here (1/12/23), here (1/25/23), here (2/6/23) here (2/6/23), here (2/7/23), here (4/17/24) and here (4/17/23).
The reaction from Architect’s Newspaper here (1/26/23), here (2/2/23), and here (4/17/23).
The reaction from Archinect here (1/26/23) and here (2/7/23)
The reaction from ARTnews here (1/30/23) and here (2/7/23).
The reaction from Hyperallergic here (1/31/23).
The reaction from Dezeen here (2/2/23) and here (2/7/23).
Open letter in support of the Vkhutemas exhibition in Art and Education here (2/1/23).
Statement from PEN America here (2/2/23).
The reaction from Curbed here (2/6/23).
The reaction from Artforum here (2/6/23)
The reaction from The Art Newspaper here (2/6/23).
The reaction from New York Times here (2/7/23).
The reaction from Voice of America (in Russian) here (2/8/23).
The reaction from The Eastern Herald (India) here (2/8/23).
Read my answer to criticisms in an op-ed in Kyiv Post (Ukraine) here (2/8/23).
The reaction from Klassekampen (Norway) here or [PDF] (2/10/23) here (2/14/23), here (2/18/23), with my reply here and as PDF (2/24/23).
The reaction from Document (Norway) here (2/13/23).
Greenhouse Book Talk: The Power of the Periphery
Environmental Humanities Book Talk: The Power of the Periphery, The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger, Nov. 2, 2020.
Book Talk: The Power of the Periphery
Book Talk: The Power of the Periphery: How Norway became an Environmental Pioneer for the World. Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, Oct. 6 2020.
In conversation with Eric Klinenberg. Recording on YouTube
Ecology in Design: In Conversation
Ecology in Design: In Conversation with Nina Edwards Anker and Peder Anker.
The American Scandinavian Society with Garette Johnson. June 24 2020.
Design with Life Discussion
Collapse: Climate, Cities & Culture Berlin
The COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES and CULTURE exhibition focuses on the design/artist community’s response to environmental urgency, using architectural models, design prototypes, drawings, and art to frame and advance this vitally important conversation. We will contrast and compare examples of design from central Europe to show efforts to find solutions for our current state of planetary peril. The practices and projects selected for this exhibition come from different disciplines and operate at multiple scales, in a range of forms—constructed works, materials and systems research, community development, and speculation. These diverse projects are joined by their shared focus on improving the health and well-being of our fragile planet and all of its occupants. Design will help to determine how we face our current and future collapse.
Berlin NYU at St. Agnes, Alexandrinenstraße 118
June 6-July 11, 2019.
Peder Anker 