On Monday, October 6, Stefano Boeri participates with an online lecture in the 2025–26 Distinguished Speaker Series of Columbia University in New York, within the Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program (CUSP).
Each year, CUSP invites leading scholars, artists, professionals, and social activists from diverse backgrounds to give a presentation on a topic of their choice that responds to the annual theme. This year’s theme, Evolution and Innovation, is an invitation to reflect on the many meanings and implications of evolution and innovation through different perspectives – ranging from religion to science, psychology to information technology, philosophy to music, art and architecture to climate science, business to history, medicine to the environment.
Within this framework, Stefano Boeri will present some of the main projects by Stefano Boeri Architetti that embody the Green Obsession philosophy, which has guided the firm’s design approach. Green Obsession also received the UN SDG Action Award, known as the “Oscars” of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Selected from over 5,000 applications from 190 countries covering the full spectrum of the 17 goals, the award recognizes initiatives that mobilize, inspire, and connect communities to drive positive change.
Born with the aim of enhancing and implementing the principles of urban forestation, “Green Obsession” has become the title of conferences, public programs and a book (published by Actar in 2021 and supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts).
More information: https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/scholars/curriculum/speakers