PROGRAM LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (Mars …

PROGRAM

LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (Mars 29, April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3)

SEMINARS: THURSDAYS 10-12am (Mars 31, April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 12) Seminar leader: Guro Aandahl

1. Lecture Mars 29: Ecology and the Empire I: Britain and the World

Read: Guha, Environmentalism, Chapter 1-4. Tansley, "The Classification of Vegetation” Tansley, "The Use and the Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" Wells, Huxley and Wells, The Science of Life

2. Lecture April 5: Ecology and the Empire II: South African Holism

Read: Guha, Environmentalism, Chapter 6. Phillips, "Man at the Cross-Roads" Phillips, "The Biotic Community" Smuts, Holism and Evolution Smuts, "The Spirit of the Mountain"

3. Lecture April 12: Science and Sustainability I: Bauhaus of Nature

Read: Macy and Bonnemaison, Architecture and Nature, Chapter 1-4. L. Moholy-Nagy, “Why Bauhaus Education?”

4. Lecture April 19: Science and Sustainability II: Buckminster Fuller

Read: Macy and Bonnemaison, Architecture and Nature, Chapter 5. Richard Buckminster Fuller, any available book of your choice

5. Lecture April 26: The Ecological Colonization of Space

Read: Guha, Environmentalism, Chapter 5. Brand (ed.), Space Colonies Johnson and Holbrow (eds.), Space Settlements Konnecci, “Space Ecological Systems”

6. Lecture May 3: Open