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From Field to Form: An Introduction to Building with Plants and Earth

From Field to Form: An Introduction to Building with Plants and Earth

Mae-ling Lokko discusses the possibilities and implications of designing with plant- and earth-based materials.

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Sasha Dueer Biobased Dyes Lecture and Workshop 3

Sasha Dueer Biobased Dyes Lecture and Workshop 3

Guest Lecturer: Sasha Duerr expert and global thought leader on biobased dyes

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Ecolibri Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 2

Ecolibri Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 2

Guest Lecturer: Dita Zakova, Founder and Executive Director of Ecolibri

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Global Mamas Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 1

Global Mamas Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 1

Guest Lecturers: Renae Adams, Founder of Global Mamas; Jurgen Strohmayer, Architect for Global Mamas Fair Trade Zone

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Yale CEA Presents with UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP 27

Yale CEA Presents with UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP 27

Watch the Recording for an Introduction to CEA's Report on Building Materials and the Climate: Status and Solutions

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Biomaterials: Can Biomaterials Become The Building Blocks for the 21st Century?

Biomaterials: Can Biomaterials Become The Building Blocks for the 21st Century?

Bio-based & biomaterials offer a key opportunity for decarbonizing the buildings and construction sector and achieving 10 of the 17 UN SDGs. Join UNEP & YaleCEA for an in-depth discussion on #biomaterials! (2022)

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Design for Freedom Summit

Design for Freedom Summit

Chris Sharples of SHoP Architects and Anna Dyson from the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture gave an interactive tech talk on the future of the AEC industry, noting how technology can be used in design, construction, and manufacturing to help reduce the risk of forced labor in building materials.

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COP 26: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021

COP 26: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021

Prof. Anna Dyson was a speaker at the Experts & Practitioners Roundtable: Climate Migration Challenges for Governance.

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Yale CEA presents at the sdewes Conference in Germany

Yale CEA presents at the sdewes Conference in Germany

CEA introduced their research work on the Integrated Concentrating Solar Envelope technology at the conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. (2020)

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Yale CEA presents at the World Urban Forum

Yale CEA presents at the World Urban Forum

Yale CEA's joins SBC in the World Urban Forum: Promoting Circular Built Environment. Naomi Keena presented Yale CEA research work on bio-based materials. (2020)

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Yale CEA joins the Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier

Yale CEA joins the Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier

Organized by the Norman Foster Foundation, Anna Dyson, Founding Director at Yale CEA gave a keynote at the third edition of the Robotics 2019 Public Debates in Madrid. (2019)

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Yale CEA hosts a UN Climate Summit event at the Yale Club

Yale CEA hosts a UN Climate Summit event at the Yale Club

Yale CEA and UN Environment co-hosted a high-level meeting at the Yale Club in New York City, an opportunity for key officials and experts to address Architecture and Ecosystems for Healthy Resilient cities. (2019)

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Yale CEA research featured at WCEF and SBC Events

Yale CEA research featured at WCEF and SBC Events

Naomi Keena represented Yale CEA at The World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki June 3-5 and at the UN One Planet Network's Sustainable Building and Construction (SBC) Programme's series of Workshop and Meetings, Amsterdam June 6-8. (2019)

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Transforming The DNA of the Built Environment - Spring Meeting

Transforming The DNA of the Built Environment - Spring Meeting

TRANSFORMING THE DNA OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT" is a two-part meeting held in the Spring and Fall of 2018 to kick off a collaboration between The Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale (CEA - pronounced ‘see’) and New Lab. (2018)

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Rebuilding Architecture Symposium

Rebuilding Architecture Symposium

This symposium, convened by Peggy Deamer, will explore areas that affect the construction of architecture’s discipline and profession—the academy, history/theory, practice, and media/representation—in order to structurally rethink and rebuild architecture. (2018)

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Nature-based Solutions in the Built Environment:
Green Materials, Systems and Spaces

Nature-based Solutions in the Built Environment:
Green Materials, Systems and Spaces

3rd CSI Global Forum (2021)

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Urban Development and Planetary Health

Urban Development and Planetary Health

Fifth Planetary Health Online Lecture (2021)

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Opportunities for Regenerative Design

Opportunities for Regenerative Design

Design Colloquium (2020)

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Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

The Architectural League NY (2019)

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Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

The Architectural League NY (2019)

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Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: Series: Manifesto Series: Closed Worlds

Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: Series: Manifesto Series: Closed Worlds

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Yale CEA Presents with UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP 27

Yale CEA Presents with UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP 27

Watch the Recording for an Introduction to CEA's Report on Building Materials and the Climate: Status and Solutions

cop 27
Addressing Indoor Air Pollution with Award-Winning Design

Addressing Indoor Air Pollution with Award-Winning Design

Yale Talk Podcast, Yale University (2021)

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COP 26: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021

COP 26: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021

Prof. Anna Dyson was a speaker at the Experts & Practitioners Roundtable: Climate Migration Challenges for Governance.

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Anna Dyson: The future of contemporary urban systems

Anna Dyson: The future of contemporary urban systems

Norman Foster Foundation Podcast (2020)

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Yale CEA team presents at ISES Conference in Lisbon, Portugal - From Exposure to Human Health: New Developments and Challenges in a Changing Environment

Yale CEA team presents at ISES Conference in Lisbon, Portugal - From Exposure to Human Health: New Developments and Challenges in a Changing Environment

Work based upon inter-university collaboratoration was presented by Yale School of Public Health PhD Student Elizabeth Lin: "A Novel Method to Explore the Impact of Architectural Design on Biological and Non-Biological Components of the Indoor Exposome"

Holcim Foundation Next Generation Award Winner

Holcim Foundation Next Generation Award Winner

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz is awarded the "Next Generation" 4th prize 2020

North America, rescheduled for August 2022 due to the pandemic.

2022 NIST-Hosted Workshop on Standards for Microbiome and Multi'Omics Measurements: A Novel Microbiome Sampling Technique

2022 NIST-Hosted Workshop on Standards for Microbiome and Multi'Omics Measurements: A Novel Microbiome Sampling Technique

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz presents inter-university, interdisciplinary work: "Exploring a Novel Microbiome Sampling Technique: A Benchmark Experiment Comparing DNA Yield and Community Profiles Between PDMS and Swab Collection Methods" (IMMSA 1.3, 13:20)

Biomaterials: Can Biomaterials Become The Building Blocks for the 21st Century?

Biomaterials: Can Biomaterials Become The Building Blocks for the 21st Century?

Bio-based & biomaterials offer a key opportunity for 

decarbonizing the #buildings and #construction sector and achieving 10 of the 17 UN SDGs. Join UNEP & YaleCEA for an in-depth discussion on #biomaterials! (2022)

IAQ 2020 (2022) ASHRAE Conference: Athens, Greece

IAQ 2020 (2022) ASHRAE Conference: Athens, Greece

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz presents an inter-university collaborative paper on behalf of interdisciplinary co-authors: "Informing Indoor Environmental Parameters: Analyzing Measures of Microbial Ecology with Respect to the Characterization of Indoor Air Quality"

SOM Foundation 2021 Research Prize
Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

SOM Foundation 2021 Research Prize
Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

2022 - “Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health” led by Anna Dyson and Mae-ling Lokko (Yale University, School of Architecture), aims to investigate a new paradigm for connecting agricultural waste to large-scale regional material supply chains, in which improving soil nutrition and soil resiliency underpins the design goal of providing cross-sectoral environmental performance through the provision of new biomaterial construction systems. The project will be developed in partnership with Global Mamas in Ghana and Ecolibri in Guatemala.

Beyond Urban Agriculture

Beyond Urban Agriculture

2021 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA) today launched an open digital forum aimed at accelerating urban agriculture in cities and delivering huge benefits on everything from food security to climate change.

A big data collaboration between Yale CEA and the UNCCD

A big data collaboration between Yale CEA and the UNCCD

2020 - Using SEVA, the UNCCD incorporated data from the “GGW: Implementation Status and Way Ahead to 2030” Report to highlight the progress made by countries in Africa's Sahel region.

Yale CEA takes up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center

Yale CEA takes up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center

2020 - Yale CEA is taking up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center to further ongoing research development in the area of building-integrated water management, with SEWR.

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Yale CEA and Enel Foundation enter a new partnership

Yale CEA and Enel Foundation enter a new partnership

2019 - Yale CEA and ENEL Foundation are joining forces to research the nexus between water, energy, and material flows in defining transformative ways to address rapid urbanization among other in the African context.

New York Design Award 2019 for the ELM project

New York Design Award 2019 for the ELM project

2019 - DRIVENxDESIGN award celebrates innovative and creative design for environmental projects. Consideration given to materials, finishes, sustainability and environmental impact.

Yale CEA event: a message from the Executive Director of the UNEP

Yale CEA event: a message from the Executive Director of the UNEP

2019 - Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UNEP, gave a keynote address at the occasion of a high-level meeting at the Yale Club in New York City, an event organized by Yale CEA and UNEP. 

ELM voted #1 world-changing idea (UN News)

ELM voted #1 world-changing idea (UN News)

2019 - Measuring just about 22-square-meters, an Ecological Living Module was presented last September to get people thinking about decent, affordable housing that limits the overuse of natural resources and helps the battle against destructive climate change.

Yale CEA presents an Ecological Pavilion in Nairobi at the UNEA-4

Yale CEA presents an Ecological Pavilion in Nairobi at the UNEA-4

2019 - UNEP with the Yale CEA and associated partners launched an ecological pavilion showing how innovative biomaterial and environmental systems for housing could meet future demands of urbanization in Africa while minimizing the impact of the environment.

ELM: Winner of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards

ELM: Winner of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards

2018 - ELM selected as one of the Winners of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards.

Super-Sustainable Dwelling goes on view at UN HQ

Super-Sustainable Dwelling goes on view at UN HQ

2018 - A collaboration between the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, Gray Organschi Architecture, and the U.N., the CLT module was designed and built within a breakneck speed of five weeks.

Launch of the Ecological Living Module (ELM)

Launch of the Ecological Living Module (ELM)

2018 - UN Environment, Yale University demonstrate how to make modern living sustainable with new eco-housing module.

Green Wall at the PSAC II

Green Wall at the PSAC II

2017 - It's main gathering space includes a plant wall developed by CASE. This plant wall also filters the air and reduces energy use.

A new building by SOM keeps NYC safe—and looks good doing it

A new building by SOM keeps NYC safe—and looks good doing it

2017 - A new building by SOM keeps New York City safe—and looks good doing it.

dezeen magazine: The Dezeen guide to mass timber in architecture

ELM project featured as the Parallel-strand lumber (PSL)

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From Field to Form: An Introduction to Building with Plants and Earth

Mae-ling Lokko discusses the possibilities and implications of designing with plant- and earth-based materials.

event

Sasha Dueer Biobased Dyes Lecture and Workshop 3

Guest Lecturer: Sasha Duerr expert and global thought leader on biobased dyes

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Yale Daily News: A look inside the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture

A collaboration between six Yale schools, the Yale CEA seeks to develop new systems for sustainable design and ecology.

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Ecolibri Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 2

Guest Lecturer: Dita Zakova, Founder and Executive Director of Ecolibri

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Global Mamas Introduction and Mycelium Biomaterials Workshop 1

Guest Lecturers: Renae Adams, Founder of Global Mamas; Jurgen Strohmayer, Architect for Global Mamas Fair Trade Zone

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Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

brings together convergent research in integrated material life cycle design and ecosystems design

website launch

Yale CEA Presents with UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP 27

Watch the Recording for an Introduction to CEA's Report on Building Materials and the Climate: Status and Solutions

cop 27

2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

Yale CEA joins UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction in Releasing Updates towards Zero Emission Futures for the Built Environment

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Biomaterials: Can Biomaterials Become The Building Blocks for the 21st Century?

Bio-based & biomaterials offer a key opportunity for decarbonizing the buildings and construction sector and achieving 10 of the 17 UN SDGs. Join UNEP & YaleCEA for an in-depth discussion on #biomaterials! (2022)

report

Design for Freedom Summit

Chris Sharples of SHoP Architects and Anna Dyson from the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture gave an interactive tech talk on the future of the AEC industry, noting how technology can be used in design, construction, and manufacturing to help reduce the risk of forced labor in building materials.

event

COP 26: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021

Prof. Anna Dyson was a speaker at the Experts & Practitioners Roundtable: Climate Migration Challenges for Governance.

event

Nature-based Solutions in the Built Environment:
Green Materials, Systems and Spaces

3rd CSI Global Forum (2021)

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From concrete to steel, how construction makes up the ‘last mile’ of decarbonization

Fortune (2021)

news

Addressing Indoor Air Pollution with Award-Winning Design

Yale Talk Podcast, Yale University (2021)

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Urban Development and Planetary Health

Fifth Planetary Health Online Lecture (2021)

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SOM Foundation 2021 Research Prize Awards to Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

SOM Foundation (2021)

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LafargeHolcim Names North American Next Generation Prize Winners

Architect Magazine (2021)

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Global ambition: ‘Reinventing the DNA of the built environment’

Yale News (2021)

news

A big data collaboration between Yale CEA and the UNCCD

Using SEVA, the UNCCD incorporated data from the “GGW: Implementation Status and Way Ahead to 2030” Report to highlight the progress made by countries in Africa's Sahel region. (2020)

news

Yale CEA presents at the sdewes Conference in Germany

CEA introduced their research work on the Integrated Concentrating Solar Envelope technology at the conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. (2020)

event

Yale CEA takes up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center

Yale CEA is taking up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center to further ongoing research development in the area of building-integrated water management, with SEWR. (2020)

news

Yale CEA presents at the World Urban Forum

Yale CEA's joins SBC in the World Urban Forum: Promoting Circular Built Environment. Naomi Keena presented Yale CEA research work on bio-based materials. (2020)

event

Anna Dyson: The future of contemporary urban systems

Norman Foster Foundation Podcast (2020)

podcast

Opportunities for Regenerative Design

Design Colloquium (2020)

event

Yale CEA and Enel Foundation enter a new partnership

Yale CEA and ENEL Foundation are joining forces to research the nexus between water, energy, and material flows in defining transformative ways to address rapid urbanization among other in the African context. (2019)

news

Yale CEA joins the Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier

Organized by the Norman Foster Foundation, Anna Dyson, Founding Director at Yale CEA gave a keynote at the third edition of the Robotics 2019 Public Debates in Madrid. (2019)

event

New York Design Award 2019 for the ELM project

DRIVENxDESIGN award celebrates innovative and creative design for environmental projects. Consideration given to materials, finishes, sustainability and environmental impact. (2019)

news

Yale CEA hosts a UN Climate Summit event at the Yale Club

Yale CEA and UN Environment co-hosted a high-level meeting at the Yale Club in New York City, an opportunity for key officials and experts to address Architecture and Ecosystems for Healthy Resilient cities. (2019)

event

Yale CEA event: a message from the Executive Director of the UNEP

Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UNEP, gave a keynote address at the occasion of a high-level meeting at the Yale Club in New York City, an event organized by Yale CEA and UNEP. (2019)

news

Yale CEA research featured at WCEF and SBC Events

Naomi Keena represented Yale CEA at The World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki June 3-5 and at the UN One Planet Network's Sustainable Building and Construction (SBC) Programme's series of Workshop and Meetings, Amsterdam June 6-8. (2019)

event

ELM voted #1 world-changing idea (UN News)

Measuring just about 22-square-meters, an Ecological Living Module was presented last September to get people thinking about decent, affordable housing that limits the overuse of natural resources and helps the battle against destructive climate change. (2019)

news

Yale CEA presents an Ecological Pavilion in Nairobi at the UNEA-4

UNEP with Yale CEA launched an ecological pavilion showing biomaterials and environmental systems (2019)

news

10 Radical Tiny Homes That Challenge What You Know About Micro Living

Dwell (2019)

news

Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

The Architectural League NY (2019)

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Anna Dyson: The resiliency of architecture as propagator of crisis

The Architectural League NY (2019)

event

ELM: Winner of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards

ELM selected as one of the Winners of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards. (2018)

news

Super-Sustainable Dwelling goes on view at UN HQ

A collaboration between the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, Gray Organschi Architecture, and the U.N., the CLT module was designed and built within a breakneck speed of five weeks. (2018)

news

Launch of the Ecological Living Module (ELM)

UN Environment, Yale University demonstrate how to make modern living sustainable with new eco-housing module. (2018)

news

Transforming The DNA of the Built Environment - Spring Meeting

TRANSFORMING THE DNA OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT" is a two-part meeting held in the Spring and Fall of 2018 to kick off a collaboration between The Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale (CEA - pronounced ‘see’) and New Lab. (2018)

event

Rebuilding Architecture Symposium

This symposium, convened by Peggy Deamer, will explore areas that affect the construction of architecture’s discipline and profession—the academy, history/theory, practice, and media/representation—in order to structurally rethink and rebuild architecture. (2018)

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8 Shelter-Design Innovations Provide High-Tech, Eco-Friendly Paths to Permanence

RedShift Autodesk (2018)

news
Architect: Ecological Living Module (ELM)

Architect: Ecological Living Module (ELM)

Architect Magazine (2018)

Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: Series: Manifesto Series: Closed Worlds

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Metropolis: Super-Sustainable Dwelling, Built to Push the Limits of Self-Sufficiency, Goes on View at U.N. Headquarters

Metropolis: Super-Sustainable Dwelling, Built to Push the Limits of Self-Sufficiency, Goes on View at U.N. Headquarters

Metropolis (2018)

Green Wall at the PSAC II

It's main gathering space includes a plant wall developed by CASE. This plant wall also filters the air and reduces energy use. (2017)

news

A new building by SOM keeps NYC safe—and looks good doing it

A new building by SOM keeps New York City safe—and looks good doing it. (2017)

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Solar Panels That–Gasp–Aren’t Ugly!

It’s architecture’s Holy Grail, and a R&D team at Rensselaer is one step closer to claiming it.

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