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Discover the Arctic: Unique Animals and Environments

By Ariel Imagine stepping into a world where the land is covered in snow for most of the year, where the sun disappears for months in winter and never sets in summer. Welcome to the Arctic! This frozen land, stretching around the North Pole, is one of the coldest places on Earth. Did you know that during the Arctic winter, the sun never rises for months? But in summer, it never sets—that’s…

Discover the Arctic: Unique Animals and Environments

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#34 adaptation + resilience 

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Adaptation is difficult. We have to change. Yet as hurricanes persist and as sea levels alter, adaptation is a concept we may learn to admire. Today we delve into adaptation within the urban context.

Three students visit Iqaluit on Baffin Island and co-curator Lola Sheppard shares a bit behind Arctic Adaptations for the Canadian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Alexandros Washburn talks about  The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience and shares what he’s working on at The Stevens Institute. We also hear how civic virtue, or that Athenian oath to “Leave the City A Better Place," is equally about resilience.

  image credits: 1/ Flooding in the wake of hurricane sandy, The Nature of Urban Design, photo courtesy of Erick Gregory. 2/ A series 12 historic buildings in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut are carved out of local soapstone by Inuit artists. Image by Lateral Office. 3/ “Greenlander house type, 1984” carving by Jamesie Alivaktuk, 2014. Photo courtesy of Lateral Office. 4/ Interior Arctic Adaptations, rendering courtesy of Lateral Office. 5/  Everyplace is an ecological place, The Nature of Urban Design, photo courtesy of Alexandros Washburn.

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