The Future of Architecture - Talk 6: Sustainability with Jess Schulschenk & Gita Goven
'Sustainability' as a buzz-word and catch-phrase has been misunderstood and misinterpreted in the field of architecture. In our conversations with Jess Schulshenck and Gita Goven, we discuss how the idea of sustainability has been applied throughout the projects they have worked on:
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction: Background to Jess
10:50 - Community seems to be a central role in the idea of creating a ‘sustainable’ future, what are your opinions on social sustainability?
16:16 - What do you think the future of 'sustainability' is about?
19:35 - Questions to Gita: Background to Gita
27:15 - The Lynedoch Eco-village development process
33:07 - Was the construction of the eco-village an immersive experience?
35:20 - How has the idea of the Sustainability Institute been embedded into the building?
40:00 - Who and what (were) the sources the ideas of Sustainability Institute and the eco-village?
42:45 - Jess, how is the eco-village maintained and managed?
46:13 - Gita, what do you believe the significance of such developments to reinterpret and reinvent the conception of urban cities?
53:48 - What, in your opinion, does the future of architecture hold for sustainability?
1:00:03 - Pranjal, our Student Representative, shares his opinion on the talk
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