The Bartlett International Lectures: End Time: Reflections on Design, Modernities, and the Anthropocene

We are living an age of planetary crisis. For students, whose lives and careers will be consumed by the existential challenges this poses, this is the unwelcome inheritance of an age of modernity, whose roots extend deep into the past and effects will extend far further into the future. Despite the optimism, allure and promise of modernity, we are today living, breathing, and experiencing its effects and its inequities - racially, spatially, socially, and environmentally. Reflecting on experiences from an independent and intentionally international career bridging academia and practice over the last 25 years, this talk will contemplate the interrelationships between design, modernities, and the Anthropocene, and their impact on the planetary future of the built environment.