Power Up! Placemaking Through Art And Renewable Energy

From the City of Austin –

In this Imagine Austin Speaker Series event, we are teaming up with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Office of Sustainability, Austin Energy, and the Energy Institute at the University of Texas to bring in the founders of the Land Art Generator Initiative. Through their work, our speakers – Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry – develop global partnerships around projects that address issues of climate and sustainability through the lens of creativity. Their discussion will address the following:

The great energy transition will have an impact on our built environment, our parks, our culture, and our visual landscape like no other technical shift since the automobile. By presenting examples of utility-scale renewable energy infrastructure as public art, the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is inspiring the public about the beauty of our sustainable future and showing policy makers and city planners that distributed energy resources can be placemaking tools, economic development drivers, and educational venues while they help to power the grid and implement a clean energy revolution.

Recreational spaces like Seaholm Waterfront and parkland at the former Holly Shores Power Plan have the potential to tell the stories of power generation past and present through public art.

Learn more at austintexas.gov/imagineaustin/speakerseries

Parking at the Zach Theater is $1 per hour.
Please consider using alternate forms of transportation to get to this event. The Zach Theater is accessible by the 803, 3, 338, and 484 bus lines. Try using the CapMetro trip planner to find a route: https://www.capmetro.org/planner/