Collapso-architecture. Euphoric experiments for architecture and planning in the context of our critical ecological situations

This conference inaugurates the ‘Living within planetary limits’ chair by outlining a manifesto for a new strategic horizon for planning and architectural policies in the light of the new ecological regime.    

What emerges is an architecture where dismantling, decommissioning and redirecting offer new paths that are as uncomfortable as they are euphoric, and where the disciplines of planning are forced to produce unprecedented creativity.

Diego Landivar is a Franco-Bolivian economist and anthropologist. His research focuses on the anthropological reconfigurations brought about by climate change and ecological collapse. He teaches and researches at the Groupe ESC Clermont. He holds the chair in ‘Living within planetary limits’, hosted by the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes in partnership with the Agence d'Urbanisme de la Région Nantaise, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes/NU, and SCE-KERAN.