Session 1
18 november 2021
17:00—18:00 CET
ECOPOLITICS OF ACCUMULATION
Jose Alfredo Ramirez
Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect, director of AA Groundlab, co-director of the Landscape Urbanism MArch/MSc Postgraduate Programme and director of the Mexico Visiting School at the AA. He studied Architecture in Mexico City and a Landscape Urbanism MA at the AA in 2005. At AA Landscape Urbanism he explores the consequences of the potential implementation of a Green New Deal in the UK. He has published numerous articles and the book ‘Critical Territories:’ as well as given workshops and lectured on the topic of Landscape Urbanism and the work of Groundlab worldwide. His work explores the relationship between policymaking and climate change through a series of research and commissioned projects. Ramirez is interested in developing landscape-oriented practices where skills including visualisation, mapping, spatial understanding of socioecological systems and landscape techniques can aid the advance of design strategies to tackle climate breakdown.