This event is part of Sensing Change, a citywide Festival presented by Art Switch Foundation and Transparent Eyeball. This year’s edition explores how humans and non-humans perceive and participate in change – exploring ecological systems and geological shifts to embodied knowledge and cultural transformation.
In this open exchange at Pratt Institute, participants will share how they engage with resilience in their practices, whether through ecological design, invasive plant systems, regenerative architecture, or visual poetics. The conversation will span biology, art, architecture, and environmental science mapping how systems respond to pressure, disturbance, and transformation.
What does it mean to build, think, and create with resilience today? Can resilience be more than recovery, can it be resistance, reinvention, or reorientation?
Featured Keynote:
Rafael de Balanzo Joue - Architect, researcher, and founder of Resilience Thinking Design Studio, Rafael’s work bridges design, sustainability, and systems theory. He investigates how cities and habitats can adapt through cycles of change and leads the Earth Public Sphere initiative at Pratt Institute.
Presentations by:
– Rafael de Balanzo Joue (Pratt Institute)
– Enrique Lanz Oca (Pratt Institute)
– Adam Váčkař (Artist, Transparent Eyeball)
– Melody Stein & Justin Morris-Marano (Architects, External Affairs)
