ONLINE EVENT
How do we mourn concrete?
Can we keep building in concrete? Has embodied carbon caught up with our concrete addiction, and what does this mean for concrete follies like M-Pavilion? In this, our first event of 2024, ACAN Australia lay concrete to rest. We discuss concrete’s material histories as a geology of the Anthropocene and even as a symptom of chromophobia.
And what about Tadao Ando and Melbourne’s 2024 M-Pavilion? We will estimate—by using the latest embodied carbon tools—just how much embodied carbon might be in the M-Pavilion—or is this drop in our concrete tomb not enough to matter? Or is concrete now in palliative care and as architects, is it time to grieve?
Speakers
Moderated by Dr. Peter Raisbeck
Charity Edwards
Charity Edwards is a lecturer and urban researcher in the Department of Architecture at MADA, and a registered architect.
Jason Crow
Jason is a senior lecturer at Monash University and a licensed architect in the state of Pennsylvania. His research explores how technological changes impact material ontology and artisanal epistemology.
Virginia Mannering
Virginia Mannering is a designer and award winning researcher-writer. She teaches design studio, and art/architectural history and is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.
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