Agenda

19 Mag 2023 09:00

The Cooling Solution - Workshop

Aula Baratto, Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246, Venezia

In the last century, air-conditioning has established itself as the main, and nearly only intensely advertised strategy to cope with extreme heat in different parts of the globe. The global homogenization of building styles has allowed the proliferation of air-conditioning as the preferred choice to control ambient temperatures during hot seasons, sometimes independently of the outdoor climatic conditions. Billions of people, living on our planet in 2050 and using more energy to moderate harm from climate impacts bear the risk of creating a new, gigantic challenge.

The workshop The Cooling Solution will bring together experts from climate science, epidemiology, economics, anthropology, architecture, and urban planning to discuss: the challenges posed by rising temperatures to human health the implications on energy demand, the environment, and our society the heat adaptation solutions that exist across the world.

Speakers:
Laura Battistel, EURAC research; Francesco Colelli, Ca Foscari University, fondazione CMCC; Enrica De Cian, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, fondazione CMCC, NICHE; Giacomo Falchetta, fondazione CMCC; Antonio Gasparrini, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Arianna Latini, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development; Talita Borges Cruz & André Lucena, COPPE/UFRJ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Antonella Mazzone, Oxford University;  Tetsu Kubota, Hiroshima University; Avikal Somvanshi, Centre for Science and Environment

The exhibition The Cooling Solution is a scientific project that uses photography to investigate how people of different socioeconomic backgrounds around the world adapt to high temperatures and humidity. It combines scientific findings with personal stories, offering a visual journey through people’s lived experiences of ineffective and inefficient cooling, hypercooling, heat dumping, vernacular architecture, and cutting-edge cooling technologies in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Italy.

The Cooling Solution will be available at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice from 20 May to 31 July 2023 at the following spaces:

Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Monday through Friday: 8am-6pm
Saturdays: 8am-1pm
Free entry; June 2nd and 3rd closed for holidays

Tesa 1, Ca' Foscari Zattere
Monday through Saturday: 10am-6pm
Sunday 3pm-6pm
Free entry; June 2nd and 3rd closed for holidays

Photography by Gaia Squarci
Research by the ENERGYA team at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Project coordination by Elementsix
Art direction and design by Kublaiklan

The latest version of the workshop agenda as well as information on registration, logistics, and social events can be found here.

Register here to take part live to the workshop (by May 15) or follow us remotely (ZOOM - Meeting ID 869 1147 3237 Passcode: TCS-23)

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)

Link

http://thecoolingsolution.com/

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