Join as an NTBG Member Today!
Support NTBG by joining, renewing or giving the gift of membership today!
Membership options and renewal
Symbiotic House Lectures
Symbiotic House is a project catalyzed by Lee Pivnik in 2022 to research and develop adaptive architectural solutions to Miami’s environmental precarity, and to conceptualize and design a “multi-use space for multi-species survival”. The project’s aim is to reimagine the home as a potential site for climate care, an active hub for offsetting carbon emissions, rewilding landscape, supporting biodiversity, and adapting to environmental change. Symbiotic House will ultimately manifest as a living earthwork that functions as a regenerative shelter and center for interdisciplinary art and ecology research in South Dade.
The project intends to broaden the design process so that the space emerges organically through communal workshops, open research, and constant feedback. It is meant to invite the local community of South Florida into a collective act of dreaming up new practices for how to best adapt to the intersecting climate and housing crises, so that the people living at the epicenter of these issues are treated as the experts in mitigating them.
The lecture series is $10 for all guests and free for members. The start time is 6:30 PM.
March 23, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – Joyce Hwang
April 27, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – Daniel Ayat
May 25, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – Mamoun Nukumanu
October 19, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – TBD
November 16, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – TBD
December 14, 2023
Symbiotic house at The Kampong – TBD