Events

EdX MOOC on Global Housing Design

This conversation series is part of Curating Architecture Across the Americas (CAAA), an initiative that brings together institutions, curators, and scholars to discuss the role of architecture exhibitions and collections in the expanding world of curatorial practices and cultural debates.

In this talk, Pamila Matharu and Lauren Fournier will be in conversation on the occasion of the launch of Fournier’s new book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (The MIT Press, 2021). The two will discuss ideas that Fournier takes up in the book, including the state of the “autotheoretical turn” in recent feminist art, the role that histories of intersectional feminist activism play in contemporary conversations and trends, the ethics of disclosure and exposure, and the relationship between autotheory, autofiction, and other terms, like auto-ethnography. The two will draw from their backgrounds as artists, writers, and curators involved in feminist organizing in Toronto and elsewhere to discuss the use of autobiographical materials in critical and conceptual work. Books will be available for purchase.

Join d.talks in conversation with K. Jake Chakasim and Neena Verma on diaspora and belonging.

Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Architecture and Geographies of Difference” will feature Balkrishna Doshi and Barry Bergdoll for a discussion of art and architecture.

Videos

Eight internationally renowned photographers, ISIA teachers were invited to tell the story of De Carlo’s work in Urbino today, in response to the architect’s invitation to re-evaluate the last phase of the project, the one usually overlooked in the evaluation of results. In L’Architettura della partecipazione he exposes how often the representation of architecture does not include the people who live in it, while according
to him, a place is a space ‘’experienced, consumed, perpetually transformed by human presence”.
Paola Binante, Luca Capuano, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Jason Fulford, Stefano Graziani, Armin Linke, Giovanna Silva, explore and recount the nature of his lesson through photography.

Minnette De Silva’s unique position in the mid-20th century exemplifies cultural and local specificity in dialogue with a global modern movement. Her architectural practice was expressive of the materials, techniques, and history of her native Sri Lanka as well as her participation in a network of international architects and designers. As a result, De Silva’s legacy traces the complex and multi-directional vectors of modernity.

See the discussion panel "Designing happiness" with our special guests.
Extraordinary discussion panel on the need that continues to be the same in our constantly changing world - i.e. the thing called “happiness”. We will be trying to find out if compromises in “happines” planning limit the creative process and its actual final result, and if our personal wellbeing-oriented choices affect business relations. We will talk about planning space in the personal life based on non-negotiable values. About culture, good habits, golden rules that help design space that facilitates building one’s happiness, and individual responsibility for turning that project into reality.

Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Geographies of Absence and Loss” will feature Maram Masarwi and Ahlam Shibli, hosted by Sean Anderson, for a discussion of art and architecture.

Young European Architects
Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
CA’ASI – Venice CA’ASI
Mai 22nd – Novembre 21st 2021

The Settler Colonial City Project is a research collective focused on the collaborative production of knowledge about cities on Turtle Island/Abya Yala/The Americas as spaces of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous survivance, and struggles for decolonization. Trained both as architects and as architectural historians, SCCP co-founders Andrew Herscher and Ana María León will discuss the work of the collective as an intersection of practice, research, and pedagogy. In light of current prompts for change in architectural curricula, they will problematize how institutions have embraced and conflated depoliticized notions of decolonization and anti-racism.

Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Visceral Disruptions” will feature Camille Norment and Okwui Okpokwasili, hosted by Onome Ekeh, for a discussion of art and architecture.

Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Body and Ground” will feature Jeneen Frei Njootli and Manuel Axel Strain, narrated by Patricia Marroquin Norby, for a discussion of art and architecture.

CANactions School, Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Architecture, the City of Warsaw, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Romanian Order of Architects Bucharest, are introducing a new educational post-graduate program, to embrace and establish international knowledge exchange between institutions and organizations based in post-socialist states, in order to tackle 'Alternative Models' — for Collaboration, Ownership, Governance, Polycentricity – in urban scenarios across their regions.
The consideration of political, social, cultural, and historical background in these cities and regions imposes questions, problems, and challenges universal to all of these geo-locations.
https://canactions.com/alternative-models

We open a space to explore the purpose of design as a tool for disruption and reinvention in never-normality, where change is the new constant.

The SoA's Spring 2021 lectures and events explore the intersections of design culture, design labor, social equity, environmental and economic justice, experimental form making, and historic preservation. Organized by the Dean’s Office as well as the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) and Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) programs, by faculty, and by students, all events are free and open to the public and will be held on Zoom.

Marina Tabassum will share her research on the Meghna estuary and its impact on climate change coupled with a complex land inheritance system introduced by British Colonial rule that to date governs the dynamic landscape of the Ganges Delta. Marina will share the development of a modular mobile home unit to be distributed to landless families living in coastal areas.