Designing to Avoid Disaster

Co-sponsored by NYU Wagner, NYU Department of Environmental Studies, and UPSA.

March
28
5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Public
Date:
March 28, 2018
Time:
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
The Puck Building - 295 Lafayette Street, Rice Conference Room & Newman Reception Area, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012

Thomas Fisher, a professor and Director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss the fracture-critical nature of many of the systems we have put in place since the mid-20th century, how such systems are especially vulnerable to catastrophic failure, and what we need to do to create more resilient, affordable, and equitable systems in the future. He will show how fracture-critical failures follow a consistent pattern and how we can spot the vulnerability of systems and prevent their failure.

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