The Planetary Boundaries

Alberto Iacovoni, Marialuisa Palumbo | Cornell in Rome

1. About Climate

IABR, The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, The Flood, curator Adriaan Geuze, 2005

New Orleans, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina

New York, October 2012, Hurricane Sandy

2. The four Elements

Hanyuan county, Sichuan province, China

Tiananmen Square, Beijing, January 2014

3. Sources and Sinks

Earth's Human Population1800 - 1 billion1900 - 1,5 billion 2000 - 6 billion2050 - 9 billion

1962

1972

Stockholm 1972, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

RIO DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

172 governments participated (with 116 sending their heads of state or government)

2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended 17,000 people at the parallel NGO "Global Forum"

The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to "a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system". The Protocol is based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities: it puts the obligation to reduce current emissions on developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

4. Footprints

Israel/Palestine separation wall

5. Design for social impact:building mitigation, adaptation, resilience

Transmission lines

Landfill

6. Malmö, the most ambitious climate tergets

7. Medellín, the most educated

“First came respect and [the idea] to give value to the local conditions, give value to the memories. There is a lot of value. Sometimes because you have some different preconceptions and you belong to a different world, it is difficult for you to see the value of these things. I am talking not only about the value of the physical environment. I am talking about the value of the social engagement, the economy, most of it informal, but they have a lot of solidarity, networks and so on… The process of Medellín, the singularity is some special sensibility about local conditions and houses and thinking that it is better to add than to erase.”Alejandro Echeverri, Medellín’s Director of Urban Projects

Parque Biblioteca España, Giancarlo Mazzanti, 2005-2008

Antonio Derka School, Obranegra Arquitectos, 2008-2014

Orquideorama in Medellin Botanical Garden, Plan B - Felipe Mesa, Alejandro Bernal + JPRCR - Camilo Restrepo, J. Paul Restrepo, 2006-2008

Parque Explora, Alejandro Echeverri, 2008

“UVA (Unidades De Vida Articulada) de la imaginación” Water park, COLECTIVO 720 SAS. Mario Fernando Camargo Gómez, Luis Orlando Tombé, 2014-2015

Global Holcim Awards Gold 2015, Water reservoirs as public park.

8. Favara, the next generation Cultural Center

Favara Cultural Park, Favara

“We were tired of always having to go to places like New York or London to see anything interesting" "We wanted to find a way to transform and improve the area we were living in, for ourselves but also for our kids." Andrea Bartoli

“I don’t have any official figures, but what’s happened over the last few years is truly staggering. There isn’t a single building in the historic town centre that hasn’t been the subject of sale, and today isn’t being transformed for tourist and cultural purposes. Favara used to have just one hotel with 15 rooms; now there’s a continual proliferation of holiday homes, country retreats and B&Bs. A stone’s throw from the Sette Cortili (or “seven courtyards”, the oldest part of the town), work is being completed on an urban resort designed by Architrend. Not to mention restaurants, pizzerias, putie (studios)... Last summer, from June to September, FARM and Favara welcomed nearly 40,000 visitors, a number expected to rise by 15% this year.” Andrea Bartoli