[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, October 3 - Daniel Barber - (Please RSVP)

[STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Daniel Barber
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*Barnard College
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*Phase-Change: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Solar Energy, 1946-
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Monday, October 3
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts
<sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>by 5pm
Thursday, September 29th.
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*Abstract:* At the end of 1948, the electrical engineer Maria Telkes and the
architect Eleanor Raymond built the *Dover Sun House*. The house was widely
recognized as the first “all-solar house” – in the seasonally frigid climate
outside Boston, it deployed a phase-change chemical system for collecting
and storing solar radiation as the sole source of space heating.

This presentation will position the house amidst three historical and
conceptual frameworks. First, it will be seen as evidence of the heretofore
undocumented interest in solar energy in the immediate post-war period.
Second, the challenges of the house’s heating system will provide an
opportunity to re-think the political context of technological
experimentation. Third, the house will be seen as significant to the
post-war emergence of new forms of expertise – and specifically, the amalgam
of technological, political, and cultural knowledge informing the managerial
disposition to resource and environmental problems that persists to the
present.


*Biography*:  Daniel A. Barber is an interdisciplinary historian analyzing
cultural, technological, and bureaucratic affinities between the history of
modern architecture and the emergence of environmentalism. His current
research is focused on the role of architectural technologies in the
infrastructural and territorial transformations of the immediate post-World
War II period in the United States, with an emphasis on the design of solar
houses and the role of buildings in mitigating challenging climatic
conditions.  Barber received his PhD in the History and Theory of
Architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation. He was recently a post-doctoral fellow at the
Harvard University Center for the Environment, and is currently a Term
Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Barnard and Columbia Colleges
Architecture Program at Columbia University. He has also taught at Oberlin
College, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of
Auckland. Articles have been published in *The Journal of
Architecture*, *Design
Philosophy Papers *and forthcoming from *Technology and Culture*, as well as
other journals and edited volumes.


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