Participants: David Benjamin, Geoff Manaugh, Mark Smout and Liam Young Moderator: Bruce Sterling "Designing Architectures for Environmental Change" Landscape Futures curator Geoff Manaugh asserts that planetary landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. This session, moderated by futurist Bruce Sterling, explores shifting terrains of architectural invention, where the construction of new spatial devices on a variety of scales — from the inhabitable to the portable — uncover previously inaccessible aspects of the built and natural environments. David Benjamin explores adaptive technologies and responsive architecture through open source, collaborative, hands-on research and design. London-based architect Mark Smout presents Envirographic Architecture that explores how natural landscapes can be transformed into sensitive drawing devices. Liam Young of futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today discusses his series Specimens of Unnatural History, a collection of near-future taxidermy that explores the possibilities of emerging technologies in complex ecosystems. Programming related to this presentation is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts

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