[Save] sustainability workshop reminder & ROOM CHANGE

[Javier Arbona]

first meeting Monday February 9 in the BT lab - room 3.402 (room changed)

Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop

Professors Andrew Scott and Leon Glicksman

Spring 2004
4.183  | 12 units (3-0-9)
meeting time: Mondays 2.00 – 5.00 (and occasionally another time to be 
agreed with the class)
TA: Javier Arbona (arbona at mit.edu)

The workshop welcomes students from different disciplines that focus upon 
the design and technological issues related to the development of the built 
environment. The intention is to explore and speculate upon current 
interpretations of sustainability in and around architecture
and urban design, in the broadest sense- from the micro level of materials 
and technology through the scale of the building to the macro scale of 
urban form and suburbanization. We will be interested in looking at not 
only how the notion of sustainable architecture is conceptualized, 
interpreted and implemented at varying scales, but also how we might push 
the frontiers of knowledge toward new directions and dimensions. These new 
dimensions should challenge us to be conscious of resource use, ecological 
balance and minimizing
environmental impacts in professional design work and technological 
applications. The workshop will be interdisciplinary and collaborative in 
nature and will develop as a forum where students and faculty will engage 
both in investigative analysis as well as design studies of a speculative 
nature. The intention will be to produce work of a publishable quality that 
can then educate and inform a wider professional community.

The workshop will be structured around three interrelated phases. We will 
begin by looking at current interpretations of sustainability in 
architecture from literature, publications, professional practice and 
assessment methods with a view to developing some critical edge to the 
upcoming work of the class. Secondly, we will engage in a holistic and 
critical research of a range of chosen projects through the study of their 
underlying objectives and ideas as well as the resultant problems and 
issues. For example, a group may do a critical analysis of a new building 
or urban development that has been critically acclaimed to be very sustainable.
Finally (and for the second half of the semester), students will then 
select their own design project which will become the vehicle to articulate 
and evaluate either totally new ideas and agendas for a sustainable future, 
or to revisit familiar problems but with a new vision and understanding of 
the environmental potential.

The class will meet Mondays at 2.00 – 5.00pm.
Occasionally the workshop will also need to meet at another weekly time for 
further discussion and reviews. This alternate time will be agreed with the 
class after the first meeting.

First workshop meeting: Monday February 9 at 2.00pm in the BT lab - room 3.402
Any questions - email amscott at mit.edu or glicks at mit.edu

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