Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, The University of Western Australia, Perth, August 28, 2019

A Public Lecture by Elke Krasny at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
In medical terms critical care, also known as intensive care, is a specialized branch of medicine dedicated to diagnosing and treating life-threatening conditions. For this lecture, this term is borrowed to address the planet’s life-threatening condition. Throughout the twenty-first century the condition of the use planet has made headlines. The news is not good. The diagnosis is bleak. We have come to understand that the Anthropocene-Capitalocene is straining the planet to its breaking point. The planet we live on and we live with is exhausted, drained, depleted, damaged, broken. Therefore, the planet is urgently in need of critical care to repair livability and inhabitability and to restore its condition for its continued existence in the future.

You can find more information and listen to the lecture here:
https://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/krasny
https://echo360.org.au/media/180ad1c8-c166-4337-a3e4-f259d310e3fa/public