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Our climate has long emerged from designs on the future. The field of architecture, from its earliest forms, has had a hand in modulating climates toward different ends, embedding cultural aspirations, of comfort or regularity, into our built environment. In our anthropogenic era, this has often amounted to a form of managerial control dependent on extractive industries and massive energy expenditure. Amidst this fossil regime, other practices, from indigenous land-tending techniques to industrial waste-reuse processes, have cultivated non-extractive and reparative relationships with climate. While certain habits remain entrenched, the plasticity of climate reminds us that no one outcome is locked in.

Climate Futures brings together design and research projects by the faculty at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The exhibition features a range of works that engage climate change and sustainability: from rethinking material practices, to overlooked ways of living, to the proposition of new narratives for climate action. Collectively, these projects probe our current state, urging us to imagine different possibilities for existence, building, and cohabitation in the future.

Read more at climatefuturesnow.com
2024
Exhibition curation and design
Ann Arbor, MI

TEAM
Strat Coffman

With major support from Chris Humphrey
Curatorial support: Anya Sirota, Kathy Velikov
Production assistants: Shane Herb, Talia Morison-Allen