GSD students and faculty are addressing a spectrum of urgent issues at the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools  of Architecture) 101 conference: New Constellations / New Ecologies.

Their topics:

The Demilitarized Zone: Redrawing the 151-mile border between North and South Korea
Dongsei Kim, (MDesS ’12, DDes)

The Fallacy of Efficiency and Scarcity
Kiel Moe (assistant professor of architectural technology)

Christian Stayner (MArch '08, AB '05)

Naturalizing Architecture – Beauty Becoming Beast A Design Study: Condensation House
Carl Solander (2012 lecturer in architecture), with Skender Luarasi, RISD

Strategies Beyond the Compact City
Felipe Correa (associate professor in urban planning and design and director of the urban design degree program)

Grand Manner Alla Turca: Istanbul’s Territorial Appropriations
Erkin Ozay, (lecturer in urban planning and design, Aga Khan Fellow)

The Scarcity Aesthetic: The Technics of Malthus in Late Modernity
Charissa N. Terranova (PhD 2004)

John McMorrough (PhD ’04)

Roadmap 2050 and the Promised Landscapes of Low-Carbon
Rania Ghosn, (DDes ‘10)

Remaking Paris as the 'City of Flows'
Lara Belkind (PhD candidate)

Discursive Networks
Ana Miljaki (PhD ‘07)
Amanda Reeser Lawrence (PhD ‘07)

Anonymity and Influence: Corporate Authorship and The Architects Collaborative
Michael Kubo (MArch ’06)

Aerial photo of Istanbul courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory