Advanced Urban Design

The Terraforming is an interdisciplinary postgraduate design research program that explores the geotechnical, geourban, and geopolitical conditions by which a viable planetarity can be conceived, modeled, and articulated.

The second year of the program will emphasize remaking ourselves (and remaking the planet thereby) and focus on the themes of Populations, Zoning Earth, Anthropoforming, and Planetarity. In 2021 the think-tank will host contributions from many new visiting faculty, including Nandita Sharma, Thomas Moynihan, Anya Bernstein, Nicholas DeMonchaux, Chen Qiufan, Reza Negarestani, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and many others.

Find out more and apply by November 10:

Apply to The Terraforming by November 10

Strelka Institute is thrilled to announce The Terraforming, our new research programme. Directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton, it will focus on urbanism on a planetary scale and look at how the technologically-mediated shift away from anthropocentric perspectives is crucially necessary in both theory and practice.

Find out more and apply by October 31: https://theterraforming.strelka.com

The Terraforming The Terraforming is a tuition-free 5-month programme by Strelka Institute, a “speculative urbanism think-tank”. It will consider the past and future role of cities as a planetary network by which humans occupy the Earth’s surface.