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ARCH319/599E— Global Urban Ecologies

Marywood University, School of Architecture, Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar


Global Urban Ecologies introduces and explores the ecological systems that affect and are affected by: human settlements across the world, themes of urban ecology, urban-environmental planning practice, sustainability, development, growth management, transportation, land relations, open space, urban design, social networks, and public health. Through a series of case studies, readings, discussions, and assignments, this seminar will explore these vital, interconnected relationships that affect the health and quality of life of all of Earth’s inhabitants.

Primordial Futures



The final assignment of the semester turns from conversation and study of past and current conditions to the projection of future possibilities. In this assignment, students developed a series of media-artifacts to contextualize a future predicated on a topic of their choosing.

Primordial denotes origins, prehistory, the elemental and mythological foundations of existence. It evokes myth, cosmogenesis, biology, or the deep time of geology and evolution. Futures on the other hand, points to what has not yet occurred. It is speculative, projective, imagined possibility, an investment, and at its core, hopeful and optimistic. Taken together, Primordial Futures suggests a much more complex understanding of where we come from, and imagining of where we are going. These types of speculative fictions can be found in Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Solarpunk, and similar genre stories; each using ancestral, cultural, or ecological origins as frameworks for imagining futures outside of Western techno-utopianism.
Chloe Perko
Chloe Perko
Chloe Perko
Esmeralda Brito Romero
Esmeralda Brito Romero
Esmeralda Brito Romero
Jordan Slater
Jordan Slater
Maya Chorba