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This conversation is part of the Climax Change! Series, curated and hosted by Pedro Gadanho, in the context of his book Climax Change! How architecture must transform in the age of ecological emergency, published by Actar Publishers.


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This series has been produced and edited by Candela De Bortoli.

Image Culture & Ideology

Esther Choi, artist and historian, raises questions around architecture as a social and cultural practices that is crossed by image culture. Her work investigates how social and technical systems which articulate ideas within the building environment are rooted in some ideology. In this talk, she discusses the impact of her essay ‘Sustainability’s Image Problem’ in a discipline that is struggling with questioning the normative view of modernization to effectively address the climate emergency.

This conversation is part of the Climax Change! Series, curated and hosted by Pedro Gadanho, in the context of his book Climax Change! How architecture must transform in the age of ecological emergency, published by Actar Publishers.


Learn more:

urbanNext (December 17, 2025) Image Culture & Ideology. Retrieved from https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/.
Image Culture & Ideology.” urbanNext – December 17, 2025, https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/
urbanNext January 16, 2023 Image Culture & Ideology., viewed December 17, 2025,<https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/>
urbanNext – Image Culture & Ideology. [Internet]. [Accessed December 17, 2025]. Available from: https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/
Image Culture & Ideology.” urbanNext – Accessed December 17, 2025. https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/
Image Culture & Ideology.” urbanNext [Online]. Available: https://urbannext.net/image-culture-ideology/. [Accessed: December 17, 2025]

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