10th Annual Urban Soils Symposium
Recycling, Remediation, Reclamation
We continue to explore the crevasses and depths of metabolisms of both nature and built infrastructure, to find the support for sustainable development, health, and sovereignty.
For the 10th Annual Urban Soils Symposium, there is no more fitting topic to explore than the one that serves as the primary interface and most obvious broken link between the parallel built and natural metabolisms - the Waste Stream. This currently linear process, unless somehow reintegrated into the ecosystem, will continue to be a source of pollution, degradation, and environmental injustice.
Nature does not recognize waste. Every material is transfigured and re-utilized. This symposium is dedicated to exploring strategies and perspectives for realigning the built metabolism to behave as the natural one by turning waste into resources. Yes, this is about urban soils, but also much more.
Our Approach
USI is a platform developed for exploring urban soils and surrounding disciplines.
We are non-biased in disciplines, sector, angle, audience. You don’t change the world by only working with like-minded people.
We are multi-disciplinary and open background as represented through speakers, exhibitors, and audience.
Soils are the grounding for our work.
We are discussion-driven, for sharing, and inviting holistic approaches and understandings.
Symposium is not the climax or end point - it serves as the launchpad for the year.
We invite collaborations, action items, hypothesis-driven debates, goal-charged roundtables, engagement and experience in workshops, fostering unusual relationships/collaboration, vehicle for working groups.
November 2025
2 Days
New York City
Collaborators
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