News
SBC in the World Urban Forum: Promoting Circular Built Environment
February 13, 2020
The Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme brought together policy-makers, civil society, academia and building professionals in the 10th World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi.
Yale CEA joins the Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier
November 05, 2019
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.
A broad selection of members from the Academic Body were invited to participate, providing a comprehensive vision for the future of computational design and robotic fabrication. The Public Debates were carried out in two blocks, each consisting in a series of keynotes and brief debates between their speakers, followed by a questions-and-answers session that was open to the audience.
The first block included an introduction by Xavier De Kestelier related to the principle topics seen in the atelier, after which Adrian Bowyer and Manuel Jiménez García were able to speak, prior to engaging in the first debate. In the second block, Anna Dyson, Philip Beesley and Claudia Pasquero gave their keynotes, proceeding afterwards with the second debate.
Yale CEA co-host an event at the Yale Club for the UN Climate Summit
September 22, 2019
To succeed in building a healthier, safer world, we need to raise awareness and promote action that drives transformational change. To this end, on the eve of the UN Climate Action Summit, a high-level meeting took place at the Yale Club in New York City, on September 22nd, 2019. Co-hosted by Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA), UN Environment and UN Habitat, it was an opportunity for key officials and experts to address Architecture and Ecosystems for Healthy Resilient cities. The gathering helped explore concrete actions and highlighted innovative solutions to environmental challenges. It also stressed the need to urgently address ways to achieve the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Yale CEA event: a message from the Executive Director of the UNEP
September 22, 2019
Driving Transformational Change: Architecture and Ecosystems for Healthy Resilient Cities
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, on September 22nd, 2019. Co-hosted by Yale CEA, UN Environment, and UN-Habitat, the event was an opportunity for key officials and experts to address Architecture and Ecosystems for Healthy Resilient cities.
Ecological Living Module: #1 World-changing idea (UN News)
April 20, 2019
They’re small, self-sustaining – and they could revolutionize the way we think about housing around the world, as building materials become scarcer. 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. The design was created by the UN environment agency and the Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale University in the United States, in collaboration with UN-Habitat.
WCEF and SBC Events
June 03, 2019
Research Scientist 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. Yale CEA is a new member of SBC and Naomi was a panel participant in the "Sustainable Built Environment, Knowledge Sharing Workshop". The SBC programme works towards circular built environment, aiming at reducing waste and a global 30 % recovery rate of construction and demolition waste. The SBC event involved a group of 30 sustainable building and circular economy experts from governments, public and private sector, financing organizations and academia.
Yale CEA presents an Ecological Pavilion in Nairobi at the UNEA-4
March 11, 2019
UN Environment with the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture and associated partners launched an ecological “touch and feel” 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.
YALE CEA and Enel Foundation enter a new partnership
January 01, 2020
Enel Foundation and Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA) 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. The research will focus on building systems powered by large-scale renewables and enabled by smart grid connections, as an essential part of the sustainable solution to growing urbanization leaving no one behind.
TRANSFORMING THE DNA OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT - SPRING MEETING
May 14, 2018
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.
Rebuilding Architecture Symposium
January 26, 2018
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. With the aim of shifting the basic tenets that prevent architecture from being socially relevant, politically powerful, financially rewarding, and personally fulfilling, each session will explore various methods of restructuring the discipline.
