The production of waste and the production of space go hand in hand. The design of urban space has historically produced a considerable amount of waste, ranging from wastelands to the material detritus of consumption and urban development. In turn, the transport and disposal of waste has produced important ideas and practices about the design and construction of space. Yet despite waste’s centrality to the design and imagination of cities, it is today understood as a largely technical problem about the management of its disappearance. This symposium brings together scholars engaging in innovative research on the origins, meanings and repercussions of waste landscapes in conversation with artists and architects conducting design research and interventions in spaces designated as waste or wasted.
Producing Waste/Producing Space is organized by Mariana Mogilevich (Princeton Mellon Initiative) and Curt Gambetta (Architecture PhD Student) and made possible by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities, the Program in American Studies, and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Free and open to the public.
