Energies and Imaginations: Hypotheses for a Present in Transition

Energies and Imaginations brings together scholars, artists, architects, and designers to reflect and speculate on the perils and potentials of energy transitions in Latin America. How are creative practices harnessing the material, social, and spiritual dimensions of energy, and drawing upon the imagination of renewal at the current ecological crossroads? How might collective aspirations and artistic imaginations reframe questions of futures in transition?

Speakers: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Head of the PhD Program in Architecture and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Cara Daggett, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Jota Mombaça, Artist; Marina Otero Verzier, Head of the Social Design Masters Program, Design Academy Eindhoven; Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Artist; Elizabeth Wagemann, Director of the City and Territory Lab, Universidad Diego Portales.Respondents and Moderators: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University and Director, Dumbarton Oaks; Patricio del Real, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Inés Katzenstein, Curator and Director, Cisneros Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, MoMA; Thaisa Way, Director of the Garden & Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University.