Kevin Bone on land as a complex system
September 26, 2014
In his opening remarks to The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land, Kevin Bone brings to light just how recently the impact of carbon dioxide emissions has entered into our conversation on the environment. Contextualizing the day’s conversation through his graduate student work in the 1970s in Elbert County, Colorado — a grassland prairie that has experienced tremendous population growth in recent decades — Bone describes his shift in thinking from land as landscape to land as a complex system.
Kevin Bone is the Director of The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.
The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land was a symposium on rethinking land and its value in light of climate change organized by The Architectural League and co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design in September 2014.