TEDxBigApple - Nicola Twilley - To Understand Refrigeration is to Understand the World March 2, 2012

Favorite:

Nicola Twilley talks artificial refrigeration - she takes us on a 'whistle-stop tour of the artificial cryosphere' and gives us all something to think about next time we open the 'fridge.

Nicola Twilley is author of the blog Edible Geography and co-director of Studio-X NYC, part of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation's global network of advanced research laboratories for exploring the future of cities. She is curator of a forthcoming exhibition at the Center for Land Use Interpretation exploring North America's spaces of artificial refrigeration, and co-curator of the Landscapes of Quarantine exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture.

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