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Due to continuing power outages in Lower Manhattan, The New School will remain closed until Monday, November 5, therefore this event has been cancelled. Please check the events calendar should this be rescheduled. The School of Design Strategies at Parsons presents the 3rd edition of the Urban Colloquium, a series of public conversations on alternative and innovative modes ofurban practice. The Colloquium focuses on investigating the creative, radical, and subversive ways in which cities are truly shaped, by whom, and for what purposes. Speakers this
fall include Jason Hilgefort, Project Leader at MAXWAN, an innovative
urbanist practice in Rotterdam that focuses on urban processes;
Vera Tangari, community activist and professor at Universidade Federal
do Rio de Janeiro; Vinayak Bharne, Design Director at Moule &
Polyzoides in Los Angeles, a practice that focuses on transforming the
regulatory frameworks of cities; and Sheela Patel, based in Mumbai and
Chair of Shack/Slum Dwellers International, an international
collaborative that is radically altering informal settlements. Other
speakers represent the cutting edge work done in urbanism by advocacy
and activist groups in New York City, including Christine Gaspar from
the Center for Urban Pedagogy; Paul White from Transportation
Alternatives; Brenda Rosen from Common Ground; and Danya Sherman from
the Friends of the High Line. The Fall 2012
edition of the Urban Colloquium is organized by Aseem Inam,
Director of the new MA Theories of Urban Practice
Program, in conjunction with the new MS Design and Urban Ecologies
Program. All talks and conversations are open to the public on
Thursdays at 7 pm, starting September 6, in Kellen Auditorium in the Sheila Johnson Design
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Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue Admission: |
