Lecture: Elisa Iturbe, "Confronting Carbon Form"
Respondent: Judith De Jong
Monday, March 3, 2025, 5:30 pm
1100 A+DS
The dominant spatial order of fossil capitalism cannot be unmade if it is not properly understood. This lecture explores how the adoption of fossil fuels transformed the built environment, creating the spatial building blocks of the modern world. Today, those building blocks—which could be identified as the spatial roots of the climate crisis—must be challenged, supplanted, and transformed. To discuss this, Elisa Iturbe will present the idea of “carbon form” and posit several possibilities for how this problem might be addressed.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Associate Professor Judith De Jong.
Free and open to all; see you there!