March Sustainability Lecture
Responsibility vs Sustainability
Polly Higgins, Barrister Advocate of Planetary Rights
Tuesday, 23 March 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
Sustainability is a word embraced by many sectors, but its very definition is elusive. Polly presents the case for substituting the word sustainability with the use of the word responsibility. In doing so, very different results fall into place. Is it possible to create architecture that supports and reveres life itself? Is it practical to embrace duties and obligations to both people and planet? What impact will planetary rights have on architectural practices?
Last year Polly Higgins, Barrister and Planetary Rights Lawyer, was voted by the Ecologist magazine as "One of the Top Ten Visionaries to Save the Planet" for her work on Planetary Rights. Polly is also the founder of Wise Women – Women in Sustainability and the Environment, a network bringing together women who are working in, are concerned about and want to do more about sustainability and the environment. She blogs under the name of The Lazy Environmentalist
www.treeshaverightstoo.com
www.wisewomen.me.uk
www.thelazyenvironmentalist.blogspot.com
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
Please RSVP to Alex Miller, amiller@kpf.com, as seating is limited. Reserve your place now and pay at the door the evening of the event.
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
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