The RIBA Trust has launched the autumn programme of talks, lectures and exhibitions.
International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change
This autumn our international programme of talks and symposia on climate change and the role of the built environment continued. Three keynote lectures by Balkrishna Doshi, Sir Crispin Tickell and Lord Stern focused on urban issues that we must face to enable the transformation towards a low carbon world.
The International Dialogues season is sponsored by Gleeds, in partnership with BioRegional One Planet Communities and in association with Futerra.
Universe of an Indian Architect (Sthapati) LKE Ozolins Lecture 2008
Balkrishna Doshi
Tuesday 7 October, 18.30
Today, with the huge increase in population and competitive global aspirations in India, sprawling unplanned growth is engulfing traditional towns and cities. Yet we have come so far due to our synergetic co-existence with nature.
'Our fragmented short-term and crisis oriented solutions have made me experience this devastating paradox. As an architect, planner and academician I am pained to be part of the growing divide'.
Professor Balkrishna Doshi discussed the complex issues facing India in the 21st Century and some of his alternative proposals to the rapid urban development taking place across the continent.
The Future of Cities: Hazards of Environmental Change
Sir Crispin Tickell
Tuesday 21 October, 18.30
Around half the human species lives in cities. Yet as history shows, cities are particularly vulnerable to environmental change. Our current society is based on cheap energy from now dwindling sources of fossil fuel and we face a combination of hazards, in particular climate destabilization.
Sir Crispin Tickell discussed the future of cities and how they might look in a hundred years. Sir Crispin is Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University. He has contributed to many books on environmental issues and was also a member of a Government Task Force on Urban Regeneration. Respondent Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, UCL.
The RIBA Trust Annual Lecture
Lord Stern
Tuesday 25 November, 18.30
'The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change is a serious global threat, and it demands an urgent global response'.
Lord Stern examined the far-reaching economic implications of climate change and discuss emerging imperatives to engender a new global deal on climate change. Professor Stern is the first holder of the IG Patel Chair, Departments of Economics and Government and also heads the India Observatory based within the Asia Research Centre at the LSE. Lord Stern was the former Head of the UK Government Economic Service.
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Future Bookings
Tickets for RIBA Trust Talks, unless otherwise stated, cost £8 (£5 concession). To book download a ticket booking form below and e-mail to: talks@inst.riba.org|, or fax to (020) 7307 3703. You can also leave a message on our recorded booking line 020-7307- 3699 or purchase tickets, in person, from the RIBA Bookshop, 66 Portland Place.