Native American & Indigenous Studies at PennFriday, February 7, 2025 - 9:00am to 7:30pm
Final reception will be at the Kleinman Energy Forum (Fisher Fine Arts 414).
Architectures and Ecologies of Amazonia is an interdisciplinary international symposium and exhibition highlighting the agencies that have shaped and are shaped by Amazonia. Threatened by deforestation, fire, and drought, the Amazon rainforest, which spans nine countries, is home to more than thirty million people. It is the ancestral homeland of more than one million Indigenous peoples and supports the greatest concentration of biodiversity on Earth. In the face of the widespread socio-environmental challenges we currently face, along with the existential threat of crossing the environmental tipping point of the Amazon rainforest, the symposium aims to share lessons that the study of the Amazon can teach us about climate action, coexistence, and the built environment.
The symposium is organized by Vanessa Grossman, Assistant Professor, Department of Design
More information: https://mcharg.upenn.edu/news/architectures-and-ecologies-amazonia