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As part of Season of Cambodia (hyperlink to their
site), a multi-disciplinary arts festival, taking place this spring in New York
City, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for
Design presents a two-day colloquium
exploring the interconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology and community. The
event provides a window into an ongoing exchange between designers, curators,
architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York. Saturday, April 6, 6:30-9:00 PM
Living Arts City: Art and Urbanism in
Phnom Penh and New York
Panel Discussion and Welcoming Reception
Kimberly Tate,
Part-Time Faculty, School of Constructed
Environments
Joel Towers, Executive Dean, Parsons The New School for
Design Introduction to Cambodian Living Arts:
Arn
Chorn-Pond, Founder, Cambodian Living
Arts
John Burt, Founding Board Chair Emeritus, Cambodian
Living Arts, and Chairman, Season of Cambodia Introduction to Season of Cambodia:
Phloeun Prim, CEO, Season of Cambodia, and Executive
Director, Cambodian Living Arts
Elena Park, Senior Festival Advisor
Darren Walker,
Vice President, Ford Foundation Keynote Address:Refuge,
Diaspora and Return: Cosmopolitan Phnom Penh
William
Greeves, Director of Vann Molyvann
Project Panel Discussion: Urban Design and Arts
Development in Phnom Penh
William
Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecology,
Parsons The New School for Design
Brian McGrath,
Research Chair in Urban Design, Parsons
The New School for Design
Fred Frumberg,
Cambodia Line Producer, Executive
Director, Amrita Performing Arts
Erin Gleeson, Season of Cambodia Visual Art Program
Co-Curator, and Artistic Director, SaSa Bassac Greeves will
discuss Phnom Penh’s emergence as a cosmopolitan city during the 1950s and
1960s, when the capital of the newly independent Cambodia was planned and
designed by the architect Vann Molyvann under the patronage of King Norodom
Sihanouk. The lecture sets the stage for imagining the type of cultural city
possible in Phnom Penh today. Morrish will respond by outlining the link
between urban design and arts development, and McGrath will moderate a
discussion around the type of cultural city Phnom Penh is destined to become as
the capital of an emerging 21st century democracy.
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