independent school for the city

UPCOMING EVENTS

The Independent School for the City organizes various public events, addressing topics that respond to current relevant issues in urbanisation, and offers a platform to other organisation dealing with the city. The events are accessible to all 'urban' professionals in Rotterdam and beyond.

Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. The third in a series of three evenings about geopolitics, climate migration and the potentialities of space. During the evening we examine the intersections between climate justice and migration.

Tuesday 03 December, 19:00 - 21:00 (doors open and dinner served at 18:00) Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. An entrance package for all three evenings is available for 45 euro. Get them here

Oct 25

For this School’s Out! on Friday 25 October, we invited Pedro Gadanho, architect, author and independent curator based in Lisbon.

He will talk about his book "Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency" offering an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today’s climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.

Nov 05

Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. During this second event in the series, we will examine the intersections between climate justice and migration. Many in the Global North enjoy the benefits of extraction economies that exacerbate ocean acidification, rising sea levels and drought. While these changes affect people around the world, many in the Global South bear the brunt of the climate crisis. Environmental justice theory and activism seek to address these uneven distributions of the benefits and burdens of environmental harm. Climate justice and mobility justice attempt to correct the injustices caused by the climate crisis. As globalised environmental and climate injustices force people to move, legal scholars debate the ethics of exclusionary immigration policies in the European Union and the United States of America. With Lena Knappers, Bram van Ooijen, Mark Akkerman and Mimi Sheller (online).

Tuesday 05 November, 19:00 - 21:00.  Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. Doors open and dinner served at 18:00. Get your tickets here

Dec 03

Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. The third in a series of three evenings about geopolitics, climate migration and the potentialities of space. During the evening we examine the intersections between climate justice and migration.

Tuesday 03 December, 19:00 - 21:00 (doors open and dinner served at 18:00) Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. An entrance package for all three evenings is available for 45 euro. Get them here

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