The guest in this edition is an award-winning architect who made a name for himself with his own brand of sustainable architecture incorporating traditional methods: Diébédo Francis Kéré, originally from Burkina Faso, now has his own architectural practice in Berlin with various projects underway in different countries around the globe.
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Session 3: Structural use of bamboo culms (Part 2)

Speaker: Zhuo Xin, Associate Professor of College of Civil Engineering and Architecture at Zhejiang University

Topic: Innovative multi-culm bamboo spatial lattice structures

The innovative multi-culm bamboo spatial lattice structures are composed of bamboo culm triangle installation units which are connected in the way that all simple connectors are the same. The topological relationship of this structural system differs from that of the traditional spatial lattice structures. A free-form surface lattice structures can be assembled in the way of tangent direction parallel connection between adjoining installation units. The bearing capacity of the structures can be strengthened in the way of normal direction parallel connection between adjoining installation units. The feasibility of this structural system has been validated by engineering applications.

Speaker: Luis Felipe Lopez, Head of Technology at Base Bahay Foundation in the Philippines

Topic: Research in the Philippines

Base Bahay Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing disaster-resilient, sustainable socialised housing for low-income families and disaster victims using the Cement-Bamboo Frame Technology (CBFT). However, though the CBFT has been tried and tested in our various projects around the country, Base remains dedicated to constant research and innovation for the optimization of the technology.

This can be achieved through the Base Innovation Center where Base conducts research on bamboo construction technology, in collaboration with various international and local universities. Together with our partner institutions, the BIC aims to further bamboo technology and promote this for widespread use.

Speaker: David Trujillo, Chair of INBAR Construction Task Force, Assistant Professor at Coventry University

Topic: Making bamboo a mainstream structural material

Bamboo has been used as a construction material for thousands of years and currently hundreds of millions of people live in bamboo housing across the world, yet it is still perceived as non-conventional material. This is because most of bamboo constructions are vernacular. Over the last 20 years a significant effort has been made to transform it into another engineering material. This presentation identifies the state-of-the-art of bamboo engineering, including the significant progress made in the development of standards (and codes) and also identifies the path yet to cover.

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Durai Jayaraman: Global Programme Director of INBAR

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Film documents a speech given by Martin Luther King at Stanford University on April 14, 1967 about racism and civil rights in American society. Dr. King contends that there are "two Americas": one "beautiful" and the "other America, " which is an "arena of blasted hopes and dreams." He goes on to explain that "we are seeking to make America one nation."

If you believe the world’s leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars within galaxies from flying apart, requires far more matter than we can see—matter, according to the experts, that has eluded our telescopes, because it does not give off light. Problem is, such “dark matter” has also eluded one specially designed detector after another that researchers have deployed to catch it. Which raises the big question: What if we have failed to find dark matter because it isn’t there? Join leading physicists on a scientific treasure hunt that has proved more challenging than anyone expected, and may ultimately require rethinking some of our most fundamental ideas about the universe.

This program is part of the BIG IDEAS SERIES, made possible with support from the JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION.

PARTICIPANTS: Mariangela Lisanti, Joseph Silk, Erik Verlinde, and Risa Wechsler

MODERATOR: Brian Greene

TOPICS
00:00 - Introduction to dark matter
10:55 - Panelist introductions
12:28 - How do we explain motion in the universe?
16:35 - Is the “dark stuff” ordinary matter?
22:43 - Supersymmetric particles
30:06 - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
33:14 - Searchng for WIMP dark matter
37:25 - What is the role of dark matter in the structure of the universe?
43:23 - Cold vs warm dark matter
46:54 - The “dark sector” possibility
52:56 - Expanding our understanding of gravity and thermodynamics
1:01:34 - Is there a connection between dark energy and dark matter?
1:07:36 - Why do galaxies rotate?
1:14:25 - Future predictions for the discovery of dark matter

PROGRAM CREDITS
- Produced by Laura Dattaro
- Associate Produced by Peter Goldberg
- Music provided by APM
- Additional images and footage provided by: The Dark Energy Survey, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Recorded at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College

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Electromagnetic Spectrum , a science documentary explaning forms of lightThe visible light that we see is just a small part of the actual light emitted throughout the universe. Through the combination of electrical and magnetic fields, light energy is produced. Nothing in the universe moves faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second, or 670,000,000 miles per hour. Light travels in different wavelengths. The portion of light we see, referred to as visible light, shows up as the colors of the rainbow. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The other types of light in the spectrum, or the invisible light, are radio, microwave, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma ray. In this order, radio waves have the longest wavelength, while gamma rays have the shortest.Since all matter emits light, we can use infrared telescopes to see stars and dust in space that we would otherwise be unable to see. And by viewing the color of the star, we can gauge its distance and its temperature.

Exponential and logistic growth, carrying capacity, and limiting factors to population growth.

El Ciclo de Conferencias de Estudios africanos y de la Diáspora Africana [CEADA] invitan a la conferencia “Afrofuturismo: la diáspora intergaláctica” presentada por William “Mumu” Silva (Brasil).

El Ciclo de Conferencias de Estudios Africanos y de la Diáspora Africana, ha sido creado para difundir el pensamiento africano-centrado y panafricanista a través de las experiencias y los aportes de los africanos y sus descendientes alrededor del mundo. Es un espacio abierto y permanente, donde se invitan expertos en diferentes áreas del conocimiento y donde el diálogo circunda en temas de interés colectivo y desde la perspectiva centrada en África, panafricana y anti-colonial.

Afrofuturismo: la diáspora intergaláctica

Un breve ensayo sobre ficciones especulativas para construir juntos nuevas perspectivas culturales negras, liderado por los extraterrestres africanos de Saturno que tienen un propósito ancestral, construir el deseo de soñar con el futuro.

Evento: Afrofuturismo: la diáspora intergaláctica.

Conferencista: William “Mumu” Silva (Brasil).

Fecha: Domingo, junio 27, 2021.

WILLIAM “Mumu” SILVA (Brasil)

Coach Ágil y Consultor de Tecnología, Postgrado en Gestión de Proyectos y MBA en Gestión Estratégica de Empresas. Fotógrafo, ex locutor de radio (programa: Llegando a Picadilha), cuentista e investigador independiente sobre los temas: Afrofuturismo; Jazz, Blues y Afrobeat. Cofundador de los proyectos Fela Day na Kebrada, Encuentro Afro y Melanina Fitness.


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The Cycle of Conferences on African and the African Diaspora Studies [CEADA] invites to the conference “Afrofuturism: the intergalactic diaspora” presented by William “Mumu” Silva (Brazil).

The Cycle of Conferences on African and the African Diaspora Studies has been created to disseminate Afrocentric and Pan-Africanist thought through the experiences and contributions of Africans and their descendants worldwide. It is an open and permanent space where experts in different areas of knowledge are invited. The dialogue revolves around issues of collective interest and from the Afrocentric, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonialist perspectives.

Afrofuturism: the intergalactic diaspora

A brief essay on speculative fictions to build together new black cultural perspectives, captained by the African aliens of Saturn that has an ancestral purpose, to build the desire to dream about the future.

Event: Afrofuturism: the intergalactic diaspora.

Presenter: William “Mumu” Silva (Brazil).

WILLIAM "Mumu" SILVA (Brazil) – Agile Coach and Technology Consultant, Post Graduate in Project Management and MBA in Strategic Business Management. Photographer, ex-radio host (program: arriving in the picadilla), an independent researcher and researcher of the themes: Afrofuturismo; Jazz, blues and afrobeat. Co-founder of the Projects Fela Day at Kebrada, find Afro Meet-ups and Melanina Fitness.

Sustainable Land Management: Agroforestry, Forest Management, Integrated Crop-Livestock ManagementOther: Climate Change Adaptation.

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As the world's agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film tells the story of how African farming communities and organisations are reviving traditional seed diversity across the continent, and resisting mounting corporate pressure to use industrialised seed and farming methods.
This film is the follow up to our landmark 2012 film Seeds of Freedom, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Find out more and watch more films at seedsoffreedom.info

More about Seeds of Sovereignty:
Seeds of Sovereignty shows that farmers around the world have saved and bred an unimaginable wealth of seed diversity to meet many different challenges, but as corporate seed and chemicals replace farmers' own ingenuity, this diversity is steadily disappearing. Reviving farmers' in-depth knowledge of how to save and adapt seed is critical, and the film is aimed to encourage others to do so by setting out the key stages in this process.
Through interviews and stunning cinematography from across the continent, the 35-minute film unpacks an approach aligned to the principles of the growing global food sovereignty movement and provides a guide for anyone looking to revive traditional, diversity rich, seed and farming systems around the world.
Seeds of Sovereignty is the follow-up to the 2012 film Seeds of Freedom, narrated by British actor Jeremy Irons. Seeds of Freedom challenged the global corporate agenda to control and monopolise the food and farming sector, most particularly through genetically modified seed. It has achieved global success and is used by anti-GM campaigners across the globe.
Films produced by The Gaia Foundation, the African Biodiversity Network, MELCA Ethiopia and GRAIN