Ep. #020 - Albert Pope
| dc.creator | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | Howe, Cymene (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | Pope, Albert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-25T15:44:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-25T15:44:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06-16 | |
| dc.description | This recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cymene and Dominic talk about the future of low carbon city, Dominic learns about “subsidence” and then we welcome to the studio (10:55) our esteemed colleague and CENHS co-conspirator, Albert Pope, who is the Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice and author of the influential Ladders (Princeton Architectural Press). Along with his colleague Jesús Vassallo, Albert has formed Present Future, whose work is being featured right now at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (http://news.rice.edu/2016/05/09/wood-would-suit-a-future-detroit/). We talk to Albert about his ideas for the renovation of Houston’s impoverished Fifth Ward and what it should look like fifty years from now. At the core of Albert’s project is figuring out how to adapt urban systems to natural systems in the era of climate change and he explains how we need to update our model of urban density to incorporate open spaces and the carbon cycle. Albert argues there is no technical fix for climate change and that we need to change our habits of energy use, which makes the future of the city ground zero for climate change remediation. Could Houston, epicenter of the fossil fuel industry, actually lead the way toward low energy dwelling? What would it be like to live in a high-rise tower made of wood? Listen to this week’s podcast and find out! | |
| dc.digitization.specifications | This podcast was encoded using GarageBand 10.2.0 software at 128 kbps Audio Bitrate and 44100 Sample Rate in mp3 format. | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.extent | Duration: 1:03:39 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and Pope, Albert. "Ep. #020 - Albert Pope." (2016) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112726. | |
| dc.identifier.digital | coe020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112726 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Cultures of Energy, Rice University | |
| dc.relation.IsPartOfSeries | Cultures of Energy Podcast Series | |
| dc.relation.IsReferencedBy | Present Future, at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale https://perma.cc/4ZTF-AGVK | |
| dc.rights | This document is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | Cultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowe | |
| dc.subject | environmental humanities | |
| dc.title | Ep. #020 - Albert Pope | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Sound | |
| dc.type.genre | podcasts | |
| dcterms.accessRights | licensed | |
| schema.accessibilityFeature | transcript | |
| schema.accessibilitySummary | Simple AI-generated transcript is provided but has not been reviewed for quality issues. |