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How Philly can stay ahead of the curve in addressing climate change

In an Op-Ed, visiting scholar Mauricio Rodas of Perry World House and Eugénie L. Birch of the Weitzman School of Design offer recommendations that might help Philadelphia mitigate and adapt to extreme heat.

Here’s what Pennsylvania can learn from a world climate meeting

In an Op-Ed, Cornelia Colijn of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design discusses her takeaways from COP27 for Pennsylvania’s answers to climate change.

Weitzman’s Daniela Fabricius on architecture, labor, and history

The architectural theorist and historian is teaching a class titled Architecture and Labor while working on two books, including “The Ethics of Calculation: Architecture and Rationalism in Postwar Germany.”

Two people standing over a large-scale painting that will be mounted on an outdoor portico.

Through public art, the U.N. sustainability goals come to life

In FDR Park, a 10x10-foot mural sponsored by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and painted by Penn grad student Eliza Nobles represents the global target of clean energy for all.

Digging up modernist myths at the Glass House

In an interview, David Hartt of the Weitzman School of Design discusses his artwork revamping and recontextualizing the modernist grounds of Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

Trailer: The statue

Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design discusses why Philadelphia’s Rocky statue holds such resonance and what that says about which stories people choose to memorialize.

Here’s what causes crowd crushes like the deadly one in Seoul

Norman Badler of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that the crowd crush in Itaewon was densely packed, with no way for people to exit vertically.

What to do in a crowd crush

Norman Badler of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains how high density crowd surges restrict movement and become dangerous.

Four people wearing white hardhats are putting shovels into a trough of dirt in front of a stage, which is outside in front of a brick building.

Celebrating future renovation and expansion of historic Stuart Weitzman Hall

At a ceremonial groundbreaking, Dean Fritz Steiner, Stuart Weitzman, President Liz Magill, and Matt Nord of the School’s board of advisors joined guests to celebrate the future renovation and expansion of the 130-year-old Weitzman School of Design building now named Stuart Weitzman Hall.

Rob Fleming leans on a tree on Penn’s campus.

Weitzman’s Rob Fleming talks sustainable design and inclusive leadership

This past summer, the educator and author joined Weitzman as director of online innovation, and is organizing the launch of Weitzman’s new Executive Program in Design Leadership program.

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