The Future of Post-Climate America: Insights for Europe

9 October 2025 | 17:30-19:00h | Faculty BK

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The Future of Post-Climate America: Insights for Europe

Dr. Jesse M. Keenan

Tulane University New Orleans

What role can transdisciplinary research play in meeting the challenges of climate change? In this thrilling lecture, Jesse Keenan shows us how climate change is affecting life and urban landscapes in contemporary America. Based on his upcoming transdisciplinary book 'North', dr. Keenan portrays how physical impacts in the built environment, escalating costs, and public sector inertia are converging to drive people out of high-risk areas. At the same time, however, certain other areas in the US are attracting people who seek a more sustainable way of life—sparking new design, planning and development assignments. What can Europe learn from the emerging patterns in the US? How do Keenan’s insights inform research, policy and practice for the Dutch delta?

Program

17:30-19:00h Lecture & Panel Discussion, followed by Network Drinks & Bites

Join us for this important inter-faculty event at BK (Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment) on October 9. We will start at 17:30h sharp!

Jesse M. Keenan is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning and the Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University. Keenan's research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of applied science, design, regulation, and planning. Keenan holds a PhD from TU Delft. He served as the Director and Area Head for Real Estate and the Built Environment on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate on the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

This BK Lecture is part of the transdisciplinary research program Red&Blue: Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments. Red&Blue is funded by the NWO and part of the Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda.

Location

Oostserre

TU Delft, Faculty Architecture and the Built Environment

Julianalaan 134

Delft