COLLAPSE
CENTER FOR COMPLEXITY
4TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
CENTER FOR COMPLEXITY
4TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
This forum is not for the transmission of known knowledge, but for the construction of new knowledge.
—CFC FOUNDING DIRECTOR, JUSTIN W. COOK
The annual symposium presents an opportunity to explore provocative themes and unique modes of collaboration and facilitation in order to break from old models in pursuit of new ways of knowing. Each panel and breakout session will provide a unique path and process toward an understanding of collapse through collective inquiry and discovery. The public is invited to join in that process.
Panels, Breakout Sessions, and Film Screenings
Breakout Session: Reclaim / Occupy | Rebuild
by Bill Di Paola
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21
4:15 - 5:45 PM
AUDITORIUM
20 WASHINGTON PLACE
Longtime activist Bill Di Paola, founder of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space on NY's Lower East Side, leads a participatory session on community change-making (past, present, future)—and squatting, community gardens,environmental activism, and the power of collective action.
Panel:
Conversations on Spatial Collapse:
The Straw, The Camel
by Jess Myers, Lorraine Barcant, Danasha Kelly, and Zoe Samudzi
FRIDAY, SEPT. 23
3:30 PM
AUDITORIUM
20 WASHINGTON PLACE
Collapse in spatial systems is rarely unforeseen. In fact, it can often be documented for years if not decades, if not centuries. Rather than asking “How could this have happened?” instead I would like to invite a series of interlocutors to show us how it did happen, what were the tools to prevent it, and as the cracks were widening who was and who wasn’t believed. I would ask my interlocutors to tell us a story of a collapse at several scales which identifies the networks around two objects, The Camel (the object of collapse) and the Straw (the last stress that broke it).
Film:
When Glaciers Go
by Corey Robinson
FRIDAY, SEPT. 23
3:30 PM
AUDITORIUM
20 WASHINGTON PLACE
The Mustang region of Nepal is on the front line of our planet’s changing climate with glacial water shortages forcing families from their homes. Split between the tradition of the old village and a new life growing apples as a cash crop, the Gurung family finds a balance to endure. (17 minutes)