Infrastructure in a Time of Flux: Methods, Conditions, and Situations Symposium
Harvard GSD - Piper Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Infrastructure in a Time of Flux: Methods, Conditions, and Situations, an exhibition curated by Rahul Mehrotra and Dan Borelli, examines how architecture, engineering, urban design, and planning respond to a world increasingly defined by environmental disruption, political instability, technological transformation, migration, and rapidly changing patterns of habitation. This symposium brings together designers, architects, humanitarian workers, and historians to reflect on the exhibition’s three themes and a case study: Case Study, Kumbh Mela:Religious pilgrimages create temporary sacred cities. Drawing work by several schools at Harvard, this interdisciplinary conversation reflects on the Kumbh Mela, one of the largest gatherings in the world, and the roads, tents, sanitation systems, ceremonial routes, and public services that support it. This panel is organized by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University.Methods:This panel explores historic and contemporary approaches to lightweight construction: suspended, pneumatic, tensile, tensegrity, deployable, gridshell, folded, scaffolding, and spaceframe systems. Developed across different periods and…