Join the Committee On The Environment as we host a book launch, exhibit and panel discussion for Towards a Nature-Positive Built Environment – a collaborative venture of academics from Philadelphia and Milan. This volume of essays presents the work of researchers, professionals, and decision-makers who explore solutions to resolve major challenges in the world of construction, especially energy use in the built environment, while seeking ways to restore ecosystems and human-nature relationships. It aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across urban, infrastructure, and building scales and to place technical professionals' perspectives within a broader context.

The book’s contents will be illustrated by posters that visually demonstrate the content of the individual chapters. Inventions by student teams from Drexel University and the Politecnico di Milano will show futuristic and bio-inspired solutions for the built environment.

The exhibit will also include COTE member projects that demonstrate strategies to integrate nature into the built environment – this includes buildings that use alternative energy sources such as solar and wind, architecture and landscape architecture that can elicit a biophilic response, and projects designed to improve overall human wellbeing.

The topic itself, the nature-positive built environment, will be discussed, challenged, and debated in a panel discussion by experts from AIA COTE, Politecnico di Milano, and Thomas Jefferson University.

We encourage all attendees to bring reuseable water bottles as this is a Zero-Waste event.

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