What do truly sustainable workplaces look like? Vitra joined 1014 for a conversation that sought to explore these questions around embodied carbon, material sourcing, and the implications for designing today’s workplaces with Sydney Mainster, Vice President of Sustainability and Design Management at the Durst Organization, and Lindsey Wikstrom, founding partner of Mattaforma. Moderated by Jack Murphy, Executive Editor of The Architect's Newspaper, with insightful perspectives from architecture, sustainability leadership, and design management.

Two days after the UN General Assembly in New York City, Financial Times columnist Enuma Okoro and Kristina Lunz, co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, joined 1014 in conversation about chances to improve global climate policy and creating a more caring international order. Kristina also gave a preview of her book The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist.

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1014 and Impact Hustlers, the Global Community for Impact-Driven Founders, were excited to welcome venture capital expert and ClimateTech insider Sophie Purdom for an intimate fireside chat and networking event during New York City Climate Week 2023.

In the exhibition and subsequent discussion MAKING WITH EARTH, experts, practitioners, and students from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), explored in-depth research on sustainable natural materials and their practical applications. Featuring Lisa Morey, engineer and architectural designer who owns and operates Colorado Earth; Ronald Rael, the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley and chair of Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice; Tommy Schaperkotter, adjunct assistant professor in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union and teacher at Columbia University GSAPP; and Lynnette Widder, associate professor of practice in sustainability management at Columbia University. Organized by Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP.

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This conversation, co-hosted with The Urban Activist, explored what activism means to people, its power to create positive change, and how it has been evolving over the past decades. Featuring Co-Founder and Executive Director of Street Lab New York Leslie Davol; award-winning policy advocate, liberation and food activist Eloísa Trinidad; Baltimore based photographer and educator Devin Allen; and academic-activist and advocate for fair digital labor practices Trebor Scholz. Moderated by Sarah Seidman, Puffin Foundation Gallery Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York and the curator for the ongoing exhibition “Activist New York".

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This trans-Atlantic conversation about climate change, part of a series called Humanities for Humans presented in partnership with the Walter de Gruyter Foundation (Berlin), explored ancient and modern views of human relations to the earth from disciplines as seemingly different as legal studies and art, geography and ethics and from places as different as North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. Featuring Prof. Harriet Hawkins, Co-Director of the Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities, University of London, and Director of Techne, and Prof. Rebecca Tsosie, James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Moderated by Irene Kacandes, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College.

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1014 invited Jochen Eisenbrand, Chief Curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, to present the museum’s exhibition, “Plastic. Remaking Our World”, during NYCxDESIGN in New York City. The curator discussed the rise and fall of a material that has been elemental to the design world and become a symbol of modernity. Featuring Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP; and Charlotte McCurdy, an award-winning designer and researcher.

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This discussion between Yasemin Pamuk, Head of the Cultural and Science Department, German Consulate New York; Charles A. Riley II, PhD, Director, Nassau County Museum of Art; and Donald Kuspit, art critic and poet, focused on how to bridge the divide between science and art on the occasion of the exhibition "The Life Aquatic. Oceanic Visions" by Doug Argue. Presented in partnership with the German Consulate General New York.  

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On the occasion of the exhibition "The Life Aquatic. Oceanic Visions" by Doug Argue, 1014 hosted a trans-Atlantic discussion on the state of our oceans, lakes, and rivers. Featuring Pete Malinowski, Executive Director, Billion Oyster Project; Baerbel Hoenisch, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University New York; and New York City-based artist Doug Argue. Moderated by Katja Wiesbrock Donovan, Executive Director, 1014. Presented in partnership with the German Consulate General New York.  

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When Doug Argue stirs an oceanic vista, likening a school of fish to the world swirling outside his studio window, he taps a great art historical tradition: metamorphosis. With the world waking up to the clear and present threat of climate change, he asks: How do we wisely steward the ocean and its aquatic life as we turn to it for solutions? Presented in partnership with the German Consulate General New York

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