Past Events & Exhibitions

RIO+20

2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Dr. Michael Ben-Eli "Sustainability by Design | From Concept to Action"

Peter Nadin: Art & Agriculture (video)

Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies (video)

Ekaterina Dadachova "Black Fungi in Energy Transduction, Radioprotection and in Melanoma Therapy"

Francis Kéré "Bridging the Gap" (video courtesy of ALNY)

David Turnbull "Ooooh-yah… Oiiiyo..yo Call & Response"

Hydro Fracking Public Information Session

Andrew Ross "Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice: Lessons from Metro Phoenix"

Earth Day at Grand Central Terminal: Landscapes of Extraction Exhibit

Service to Sustainabilty Awards

Dr. Alexander J.B. Zehnder "Opporitunities and Challenges on the Way to Sustainabilty"

Landscapes of Extraction Exhibition

Simón Vélez "Bamboo Structures"

The Last Mountain

Gasland

Thomas Rau "oneplanetarchitecture"

Economics of Happiness Screening

Toby Cumberbatch "Life on the Edge: Energy, Water & Shelter"

Dr. George Bugliarello "Science, Technology and Society: the Tightening Circle"

Eco Redux Exhibition

David Barkin "Degrowth"

Helena Norberg-Hodge "Economics of Happiness"

Hydro-Fracking for Natural Gas Symposium

Greg Kelly "The Role of Structure in Sustainable Design"

Charlie Avis "Business from & for Nature"

Rosa Cervera & Javier Pioz "BE-Bionic"

Dr. David W. Orr "Nearly Trapped: Design in the Age of Climate Considerations"

 

 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.