Principal Investigator
Cristina Parreño Alonso, Architecture
Fund:
d'Arbeloff Fund
Funding Period:
AY2022
Department/Lab/Center:
Architecture
The Deep Time Project on Climate Change course is set under the premise that multi-disciplinary collaboration is a key to solving the great challenges of our time. The course will use the topic of “deep time” as a common ground that brings together in conversation a wide range of disciplines, such us philosophy, science, history, art, cinematography, music, architecture, anthropology, geology, and quantum physics. The common goal is to expand our temporal sensibilities becoming responsible for our profound involvement into the deep past, present, and future of the Earth. By acquiring deep time literacy, students will be able to reframe current global climate challenges from the lens of the timescales of the Earth and be better equipped to address cultural, social, and ethical questions associated to them.