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Sustainability is dead, or at the very least the term is meaningless since being co-opted by the branding and green-washing of corporations and governments and by the technological pursuits typified by green building programs and other reductive approaches. This symposium explored design and architecture as a means to conceive of and shape complex systems at the intersection of natural process and culture.