Change Makers Webinar on Housing Design and Microclimate Impacts with Stephanie Gowler and Angie Yvarra McGrew
Please join us at 9amPDT/12pmEDT on Thursday, July 9, as we explore housing designs and how they impact microclimates. Please register in advance here: https://learning.culturalheritage.org/products/conversations-with-change-makers-11-looking-at-housing-designs-microclimate-impacts#tab-product_tab_overview
Museums, libraries, and archives have been boxing collections since time immemorial. Offering protection from airborne pollutants and mishandling, boxes have also served as buffers, reducing fluctuations of relative humidity in the storage microenvironment.
At the same time, efforts to maintain and inspire access have often been at odds with the closed box concept. Our two speakers, Angie Yvarra at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, and Stephanie Gowler at Northwestern University Libraries, have been exploring solutions to this conundrum in very creative ways. In select situations, they have also included environmental data gathering in their design processes. Each will present their work for about 20 minutes, and we will take questions at the end.
Organized by the AIC Sustainability Committee, this webinar is the 11th in a series of Conversations with Change Makers, where we address energy use and the environmental impact of the buildings in which cultural heritage is stored, exhibited, and studied. Recordings of previous webinars can be found here: Conversations with Change Makers.
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adrian hernandez
AIC Sustainability Committee Outreach Officer
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