Since 2015, Harris has welcomed faculty who have expanded the school's focus and commitment to areas such as conflict, energy and environment, and data science.
Based on the foregoing, "intelligence" is, in essence, the ability of a person to successfully adapt to environmental changes and thrive throughout their life with the least amount of conflict, energy, violence and harm.
It addresses the growing land-ecology-mining conflicts, energy security and water policies of different countries bringing these issues into focus and critically analyzing them.
These conflicting energy agendas have frustrated state Senate Leader Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), who opposes more fossil fuel plants.
"Smithereens," a 2012 painting by Merion Estes, exudes something of that clashing, conflicting energy, with its starbursts of red-gold color and spidery black splatters above swelling, roiling waters.
"While it's sometimes hard to harness those conflicting energies," Mr. Rascoff said, "when it succeeds, it succeeds wildly".
In the Staatsoper, in Vienna, the ground-floor standing-room section pushes into the back of the main orchestra rows, mixing the social classes and their conflicting energies.
Molded from vegetation and earth in which human and animal remains have been mixed, these nearly abstract zoomorphic forms both encapsulate the cosmos and, as if swollen with poison, sustain conflicting energies of unimaginable force under near-explosive pressure.
Inspired by Hart Crane's poem The Bridge, the piece evokes all the conflicting energies of America, with a soaring trumpet solo that captures Crane's image of a gull wheeling over Brooklyn Bridge.
And both give rise to intimately cosmic extravaganzas, in which a leaf of grass or the gaze of a dog becomes the focus of a turbulent universe of conflicting energies and whirling impressions, from which specific emotions and details emerge with a seemingly hyperreal, overbright clarity.
Mr. Koolhaas, of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has always been interested in making buildings that expose the conflicting energies at work in society, and the CCTV building is the ultimate expression of that aim, beginning with the slippery symbolism of its exterior.
