The Architectural Ecologies Lab is partnering with the Exploratorium and the San Francisco Urban Film Festival for the March 9 event “After Dark: Integrating Ecologies,” part of the Exploratorium’s weekly series of Thursday night programming. The AEL will be staging a pop-up exhibition in the Exploratorium’s main gallery, where guests are invited to explore prototypes, plans, and experiments developed by CCA faculty and students that seek to design sustainable habitats for non-human animals in our rapidly changing environment. Exhibits will include student design work from the Materialities of Care studios and Ecological Tectonics seminars; ongoing research into biomaterials led by professors Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones, and Negar Kalantar; video and imagery from the lab’s Buoyant Ecologies and Presidio Culvert Reef research with optimized ecological substrates; experimental 3d-printed ecological prototypes developed by Alex Schofield; and a live demo of our robotic clay 3d-printer.

Registration is required; for tickets please see this link.

The event will also include a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes (dir. Shaunak Sen), a powerful film about interspecies kinship and ecological change, at 7:00pm followed by a panel discussion. Separate ticketing is required for the film screening, via the San Francisco Urban Film Festival website.