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Gibbs College to Host Billy Fleming Lecture, “Design and the Green New Deal,” on April 13

A flyer for a lecture by Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the Ian L McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the U Penn Weitzman School of design titled "Design and the Green New Deal".

Gibbs College to Host Billy Fleming Lecture, “Design and the Green New Deal,” on April 13

The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to host Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. His lecture, entitled “Design and the Green New Deal,” will take place on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, via Zoom from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

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  • Meeting ID: 920 9897 7740
  • Passcode: 29033811

Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design and a senior fellow with Data for Progress. His fellowship with Data for Progress has focused on the built environment impacts of climate change, and resulted most prominently in the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019. In his role at the McHarg Center, Billy is co-editor of the forthcoming book An Adaptation Blueprint (Island Press, 2020), co-editor and co-curator of the book and now internationally-traveling exhibit Design With Nature Now (Lincoln, 2019), and author of the forthcoming Drowning America: The Nature and Politics of Adaptation (Penn Press, expected 2021). Billy is also the lead author of the recently published and widely acclaimed “The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal.” He is also a co-author of the Indivisible Guide (2016).

This event is made possible by the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture endowment. Please contact Dr. Sarah Little with questions about the event (sarah.little@ou.edu).


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