Wed, February 25, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Oecologies: The Histories of Sustainability
Ruskin’s Raw Materials: Toward A History Of “Sustainability”
Deanna Kreisel, English, UBC
5-6:30 pm, Piano Lounge, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
This talk will begin to sketch a history of the concept of sustainability in the nineteenth century by examining how Ruskin’s challenge to Victorian models of private domesticity also includes an alternative conceptualization of the relationship between interior and exterior, both bodily and architectural, and will consider its roots in the Physiocrats’ model of self-contained economic organization and its future in theories of steady-state, zero-growth economies.
This academic event hosted by Green College is open to the University community and general public without charge. For more information, contact gc.events@ubc.ca or visit www.greencollege.ubc.ca
Those interested in attending dinner at Green College after the event are asked to purchase a dinner ticket at least by noon the business day before. Contact 604-822-8660 or visit the Green College website at www.greencollege.ubc.ca for further details