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What if the built environment is one of the ways the personal meets the planetary?
On the occasion of ALPHA MISSION – ΔELOS, Daniel Barber @abdbcb spoke to Eco News on @skaitv.grabout how the spaces we design, preserve, and inhabit connect everyday life to broader climate realities.
From how we build to how we heat and cool our spaces, our everyday choices resonate beyond the scale of individual life.
As cities continue to warm, the conversation invites us to rethink comfort, energy use, and the ways we live together.
Warm thanks to journalist Korina Georgiou @korinagg , EcoNews and SKAI TV for opening this important dialogue.
Watch the full interview — link in bio.
#AlphaMissionDelos #WorldHumanForum #DanielBarber #BuiltEnvironment #Climate #OneHealth

Impressions from the opening of Home Discomforts, curated by Marianna Janowicz.

The evening began with a lecture by Daniel A. Barber, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition with @marianna.jano together with LINA Fellows @enno.poetschke and @lisavanheyden, who introduced their newly commissioned work Two Stools.

Home Discomforts explores how climate change and resource scarcity will force us to rethink the way we live, care, consume, and maintain comfort in the future. The exhibition critiques today’s market-driven solutions — from smart appliances to energy-efficient upgrades — arguing that they often preserve unsustainable lifestyles rather than fundamentally changing them. Through the work of contemporary architects and designers, it proposes alternative forms of domestic life that are less dependent on constant comfort, convenience, and overconsumption. The project ultimately asks whether living with less, sharing resources, and redefining comfort could lead to a more sustainable and fulfilling future.

Participants: Ankit Kumar Singh, @danipar__, @edit.cllctv, HVAC (Lisa van Heyden & Enno Pötschke), @lacolarq, @superfluxstudio, @we_are_takk

This exhibition is supported by the @uca_architecture and the @lina.community, together with @creative.eu

Video: @masa_uz

Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM for a lecture by Daniel Barber, followed by a discussion with Marianna Janowicz, curator of Home Discomforts.

What is a practice? The patterns and habits shaping our built environments extend far beyond the walls of buildings or the boundaries of cities. This is especially true of thermal practices — the ways we create comfort indoors. Heating and air conditioning rely heavily on fossil fuels, with far-reaching local and global impacts. This presentation explores the relationship between comfort, energy, and architecture through historical examples and contemporary approaches, asking how architects can inspire more sustainable thermal practices today.

Daniel A. Barber is Professor and Chair of Architecture History and Theory at @tueindhoven. His research focuses on architecture, climate, and thermal comfort. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (2020) and A House in the Sun (2016), and co-editor of the e-flux architecture series After Comfort: A User’s Guide. Barber has held fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. In 2025, he led the theory team for the project Terms and Conditions at the Venice Biennale.

Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM for a lecture by Daniel Barber, followed by a discussion with Marianna Janowicz, curator of Home Discomforts.

What is a practice? The patterns and habits shaping our built environments extend far beyond the walls of buildings or the boundaries of cities. This is especially true of thermal practices — the ways we create comfort indoors. Heating and air conditioning rely heavily on fossil fuels, with far-reaching local and global impacts. This presentation explores the relationship between comfort, energy, and architecture through historical examples and contemporary approaches, asking how architects can inspire more sustainable thermal practices today.

Daniel A. Barber is Professor and Chair of Architecture History and Theory at @tueindhoven. His research focuses on architecture, climate, and thermal comfort. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (2020) and A House in the Sun (2016), and co-editor of the e-flux architecture series After Comfort: A User’s Guide. Barber has held fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. In 2025, he led the theory team for the project Terms and Conditions at the Venice Biennale.

Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM for a lecture by Daniel Barber, followed by a discussion with Marianna Janowicz, curator of Home Discomforts.

What is a practice? The patterns and habits shaping our built environments extend far beyond the walls of buildings or the boundaries of cities. This is especially true of thermal practices — the ways we create comfort indoors. Heating and air conditioning rely heavily on fossil fuels, with far-reaching local and global impacts. This presentation explores the relationship between comfort, energy, and architecture through historical examples and contemporary approaches, asking how architects can inspire more sustainable thermal practices today.

Daniel A. Barber is Professor and Chair of Architecture History and Theory at @tueindhoven. His research focuses on architecture, climate, and thermal comfort. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (2020) and A House in the Sun (2016), and co-editor of the e-flux architecture series After Comfort: A User’s Guide. Barber has held fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. In 2025, he led the theory team for the project Terms and Conditions at the Venice Biennale.

Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM for a lecture by Daniel Barber, followed by a discussion with Marianna Janowicz, curator of Home Discomforts.

What is a practice? The patterns and habits shaping our built environments extend far beyond the walls of buildings or the boundaries of cities. This is especially true of thermal practices — the ways we create comfort indoors. Heating and air conditioning rely heavily on fossil fuels, with far-reaching local and global impacts. This presentation explores the relationship between comfort, energy, and architecture through historical examples and contemporary approaches, asking how architects can inspire more sustainable thermal practices today.

Daniel A. Barber is Professor and Chair of Architecture History and Theory at @tueindhoven. His research focuses on architecture, climate, and thermal comfort. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (2020) and A House in the Sun (2016), and co-editor of the e-flux architecture series After Comfort: A User’s Guide. Barber has held fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. In 2025, he led the theory team for the project Terms and Conditions at the Venice Biennale.

Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM for a lecture by Daniel Barber, followed by a discussion with Marianna Janowicz, curator of Home Discomforts.

What is a practice? The patterns and habits shaping our built environments extend far beyond the walls of buildings or the boundaries of cities. This is especially true of thermal practices — the ways we create comfort indoors. Heating and air conditioning rely heavily on fossil fuels, with far-reaching local and global impacts. This presentation explores the relationship between comfort, energy, and architecture through historical examples and contemporary approaches, asking how architects can inspire more sustainable thermal practices today.

Daniel A. Barber is Professor and Chair of Architecture History and Theory at @tueindhoven. His research focuses on architecture, climate, and thermal comfort. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (2020) and A House in the Sun (2016), and co-editor of the e-flux architecture series After Comfort: A User’s Guide. Barber has held fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. In 2025, he led the theory team for the project Terms and Conditions at the Venice Biennale.

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