climate

futures


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


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  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





Frie(s/d)
Eve Aronoff-Fernandez, Neal Robinson                2022

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Frita Batidos’ (restaurant) narrative is made tangible through a series of constructed culinary spaces by leaning into its origin’s asynchronous and foreign geographies. “Out” of both time and place, the owner’s childhood climatological impressions of elongated summer days in mid-1970s Miami compose the primary material and experiential prompts. Hence, with careful lighting and material play, the too-bright, too-humid, and caustic ultraviolet qualities of South Florida’s quick weathers are distended latitudinally northward to produce mimetic spaces of climatological hiccup. Within each geographic mis-place, “local” Cuban-centric flavors and playful Latin gaming histories patiently and somewhat nervously await the sabal and silver palms’ arrival.  Temperature warms, palmettos shade, and urban sands creep (back) in to finally(!) catch up and re-inscribe “proper,” authentic context.  

Over the period from 1951 to 2017, the average temperature of The Great Lakes Region has risen by 2.3°F, and the frost-free season has extended by 16 days. This has led to a 14% increase in total precipitation and a 35% increase in heavy precipitation events. The future projections are even more alarming, with average air temperatures expected to rise by up to 6°F by 2050, and by up to 11°F by 2100.* “Miami” indeed moves North.

*The Climate Change Response Framework.
  www.forestadaptation.org