Hyde Lecture with Billy Fleming

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• Friday, Feb 7, 2020  4 PM - 5 PM

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The College of Architecture is excited to announce Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of the Ian McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, will be giving the next Hyde lecture titled "Design and the Green New Deal" at 4 PM, February 7th, at the Nebraska Union Auditorium.

For this lecture, Fleming will explore how landscape architects have been conspicuously absent at key political flashpoints of the past decade, including Occupy Wall Street, the Standing Rock protests and now the global corporate practices, a proliferation of boutique design firms and a retreat from public service. The profession has ceded most government work to engineers. Professional societies have further depoliticized the field, ensuring that landscape architects are locked out of the policymaking process and constrained by the limits it imposes.
As currently formulated, the Green New Deal is a set of risky, ambitious positions, involving the decarbonization of the economy, national investments in climate adaptation and a fusion of working-class and environmental politics with a program of social justice.

The Green New Deal is a generational investment in planning and design that will radically transform the social and physical landscape of the United States. It is the biggest design idea in a century. However, it is happening without designers and landscape architects. Whatever form the Green New Deal eventually takes, it will be realized and understood through buildings, landscapes and other public works. It needs designers—and designers need a Green New Deal for themselves, for the professions and for the planet.