This is a great podcast featuring an interview with Pierre Bélanger.
Pierre Bélanger is a landscape architect and urban planner who teaches at the Harvard GSD. He also directs “OPSYS”: a hybrid between a laboratory and workshop that aims at designing ecological systems that can support and promote contemporary urban life.
As the curator of the Canadian Pavilion entitled ‘Extraction’ at the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture, he called into question what it means for architecture to be complicit in colonial agendas worldwide by revealing how Canada now replicates the systems around the globe that were initially used to set up its notion of sovereignty and its massive resource extraction economy.
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