climate

futures


On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


about
projects
  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





Our climate has long emerged from designs on the future.
The field of architecture, from its earliest forms, has had a hand in modulating climates toward different ends, embedding cultural aspirations, of comfort or regularity, into our built environment. In our anthropogenic era, this has often amounted to a form of managerial control dependent on extractive industries and massive energy expenditure. Amidst this fossil regime, other practices, from indigenous land-tending techniques to industrial waste-reuse processes, have cultivated non-extractive and reparative relationships with climate. While certain habits remain entrenched, the plasticity of climate reminds us that no one outcome is locked in.

Climate Futures brings together design and research projects by the faculty at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The exhibition features a range of works that engage climate change and sustainability: from rethinking material practices, to overlooked ways of living, to the proposition of new narratives for climate action. Collectively, these projects probe our current state, urging us to imagine different possibilities for existence, building, and cohabitation in the future.


Climate Futures is an exhibition designed and curated by Strat Coffman, with help from Kathy Velikov and Anya Sirota. Chris Humphrey assisted with the design and fabrication of the display infrastructure. Additional help from Shane Herb and Talia Morison-Allen and the Facilities team.



Featuring:
Ana Morcillo Pallares
Ana Paula Pimentel Walker
Anya Sirota
Athar Mufreh
Catie Newell
Charlie O'Geen
Chris Humphrey
Collin Garnett
Craig Borum
Gabriel Cuéllar
Gabriel Harp
Geoffrey Thün
Glenn Wilcox
Ishan Pal Singh
Jen Maigret
Jonathan Rule
Jong-Jin Kim
Jono Sturt
Kathy Velikov
Lars Junghans
Łukasz Stanek
Mania Aghaei Meibodi
María Arquero de Alarcón
Meredith Miller
Mireille Roddier
Mohsen Vatandoost
Neal Robinson
Peter von Bülow
Rachael Henry
Richard Norton
Ryan Ball
Steven Mankouche
Thomas Moran
Tsz Yan Ng
Upali Nanda
Wes McGee
Zain AbuSeir