Join us for a talk with Billy Fleming and Cristian Ordóñez exploring design, climate, landscape, photography, publishing, and the ways creative practice can engage with the places and environments around us. Fleming is founding codirector of the Climate and Community Institute and an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Tyler. Ordóñez is an artist working across analogue photography, printed matter, graphic design, and publishing. Plus, there will be free pizza!
Billy Fleming is a leading voice on the role of design in responding to the climate crisis in our cities, communities, and landscapes. He is founding codirector of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think tank focused on climate and political economy, and assistant professor of landscape architecture at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. Fleming was the inaugural Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an urban policy advisor to the Obama administration. He is coeditor of Design with Nature Now (2019) and A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy (2021).
Cristian Ordóñez is an artist working across analogue photography, printed matter, graphic design, and publishing. His photographic practice explores territories and landscapes, capturing fragments shaped by memory, presence, and impermanence, often approached through walking, where chance, trace, and process play a fundamental role. He also collaborates on designing and editing editorial projects with artists, architects, academics, and publishers.
His work has been exhibited internationally, and his publications are held in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, MoMA, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Library of Australia, and Museo Nacional Reina Sofía. He was awarded the Land Artist Residency Program by OMNE – Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est (Italy) and the Urbanautica Institute Award (Italy) twice. He has also received the Burtynsky Grant, along with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.