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The New Zoo: Designing Global Co-Habitats
Summer 2009 / Advanced Architecture Design Studio / Columbia GSAPP
Kate Orff w/ Julia Watson
THE NEW ZOO
Designing global co-habitats
This studio will aim to bring new thinking to global wildlife conservation. We will map the interrelated phenomena of local formal and informal economies, governance, and wildlife patterns at pilot sites around the globe, and visualize future scenarios for positive change. The field of conservation is evolving from a philosophy of solely protecting “wild areas” to engaging local community programs and economies. In addition, in the last couple of years, the concept of “conservation-reliant species,” which require active management to survive, has emerged. We will work across the fields of architecture, landscape, biology, sociology and economics towards a synthetic approach to these environment and development issues with an understanding that humanity and the animal world share a common fate on a crowded planet.
