Thank you all for coming to the in-person sessions of Metabolism of Cities: Pt. 2. It was a blast to host you!

Virtual sessions coming up for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
You don’t want to miss this.

The symposium platform, through soils, brings diverse backgrounds,
disciplines, and sectors together to share, inquire and collaborate in holistic
solutions.

Metabolism of Cities embraces collaborative work towards metabolism
repair of our built environments, engaging efforts at different scales.
Session topics: Take Care of your own $hit, and The Clay Exchange - are
invitations to think about soils and their roles in our lives to help find
opportunities for metabolism repair of our built systems and structures for true
sustainability- with us being part of our environment.

An invitation for all who interact and are interested in the world supported by
soils. Be part of the discussions. Bring your projects, ideas, research, stories,
and explorations to share.
Soils Unite!

Our presenters list is live!

Check out the latest event information here: https://urbansoils.org/symposium-2023

Metabolism of Cities Virtual Sessions
Nov. 30; 9:15 am - 2 pm EST
Dec. 1; 3:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Virtual on Zoom

Free to attend

Agenda at a Glance

Thursday, November 30th

• Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
  Povi Romero, Native American Arts Fellow, Vilcek Foundations

• Cement Sinkers versus Clay Tinkers
  Stephanie Garon, Artist, Writer, Poet, Cornell University, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA); Dana Bourland, AICP, A dynamic and visionary leader, advancing social and environmental justice.

• What is the best way to design constructed soils to achieve better phytomanagement outcomes?
  Maha Collet-Deeb, PhD, Soil Scientist Researcher at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland

• Countercolonial Motions
  Emilie Houssart, Dutch-American artist and curator; Hernán Jourdan, Interdisciplinary Artist & Film Maker

• Foundations for Sustainability
  Dan Fiscus, PhD, Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics; Brian Fath, PhD, Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences Senior Research Scholar, Advancing Systems Analysis, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
  
  Friday, December 1st

• Terra Dispositions
  Alec Rovensky, Residency Director, Institute for Public Architecture

• The Right to Sewage
  Seth Denizen, PhD, researcher & design practitioner trained in landscape architecture, human geography, Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis

• DITCHIN#39: Carving out space in opposite fields
  Heather McMordie, Artist, Printmaker; Ed Landa, PhD, Soil Scientist Adjunct Professor at the Department of Env. Science & Technology, University of Maryland

• Funding Cuts Community Compost
  Marisa DeDominicis, Executive Director, Earth Matter

• Metabolism Repair Discussion
  Paul Mankiewicz, PhD, Dan Walsh, PhD, Dan Fiscus, PhD & Brian Fath, PhD

8th Annual Urban Soils Symposium

This is a platform bringing together different disciiplines, sectors, and backgrounds for discussion and building action items together. We are inviting you to bring your projects, ideas, research, stories, and explorations to share.

The mission of the symposium is to collaboratively discover, gain, and evolve our understandings of soils and their support of the workings of the world, through cross-disciplinary learning from soils and each other.

The format of the symposium is intended to be interactive, with time and priorities aimed at full audience, speaker & participant discussion, deliberations, development of hypothesis, methods, and ideas, leading to solutions and implementation through collaborations.

Soils Unite!