You are invited to attend the Abundance Talks at the Columbia GSAPP in person or online on October 31st at 12 p.m. EST.

The talk includes speakers Manu Karuka (Barnard) and Adrian Anagnost (Tulane) who will address how is nature portrayed as suitable for conquest?

These two talks illustrate how the distribution of abundance—as a form of natural wealth—has historically been managed through visual, literary, and architectural means. Adrian Anagnost explores the challenges faced by French cartographers in depicting the shores and ecology of the Lower Mississippi River during the 18th and 19th centuries. Manu Karuka, on the other hand, identifies a global dichotomy between jungle and garden (and its architectural offshoots, such as the garden-city and suburb) as a key trope in colonial and postcolonial discourse and governance.