January 19 – 22
This week, technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang discusses China’s rural revitalization project; All We Can Save Co-Editor Katharine Wilkinson and book contributors Jainey Bavishi, Kate Marvel, and Kate Orff read excerpts and speak about the climate movement; Edward Mazria addresses the global threat of climate change as a design problem; and Dr. Andrea Roberts introduces The Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, a research project dedicated to Black settlement history, planning, policy, and preservation.
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Xiaowei R. Wang
January 19, 2021, 1:15pm
Virtual
Blockchain Chicken Farms and Taobao Villages
Xiaowei Wang is a designer, writer, and coder. The creative director at Logic Magazine, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China’s Countryside (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
Organized as part of the Lectures in Planning Series.
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All We Can Save
January 21, 2021, 6:30pm
Virtual
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Katharine Wilkinson, Co-Editor and Co-Founder of the All We Can Save project, will introduce book contributors Jainey Bavishi, Director, New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency; Kate Marvel, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia’s Earth Institute; and Kate Orff, Professor and Director of GSAPP’s Urban Design Program, who will read excerpts and participate in a discussion on the climate movement.
Co-organized with The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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Edward Mazria
January 22, 2021, 1pm
Virtual
Edward Mazria, Founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, in conversation with Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP and Alex Halliday, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
As one of the world’s foremost experts on the built environment’s role in both causing and curing climate change, Mazria addresses the global threat as a design problem. The think tank Architecture 2030 develops real-world solutions for 21st-century problems and hosts the AIA+2030 Professional Education Series.
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Dr. Andrea Roberts
January 22, 2021, 4:10pm
Virtual Lecture
Reconstructing Black Worlds: Counternarrative Creation as Preservation Practice
Dr. Andrea Roberts is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University. She is also the founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice initiative documenting placemaking history and grassroots preservation practices in the African Diaspora.
Organized as part of the Historic Preservation Lecture Series.
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Career Services
Please mark your calendars for upcoming Tuesday Talks sessions:
An information session for the Tamer Center Summer Fellowship Program on Friday, February 5 at 12pm is open to students who will be continuing as full-time students this fall.
A professional leadership intensive with Executive Coach Patricia Hayling Price will be offered on two dates for Spring graduating students:
- Feb 5, 8:30pm–11:30pm
- Feb 12, 1pm–4pm
More information on these programs can be found on Engage in the Workshops section.
Cargo Upgrade
Cargo is offering an upgrade for all GSAPP students. Use the code 7d27c657 before September 25 for a full-year upgrade upon activation.
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GSAPP Recommends
The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA together with the Columbia Global Centers host Prospects for Climate Action Under the Biden Administration on Tuesday, January 19 at 9am. Details here. The University of Virginia School of Architecture’s Projecting Fellows series features virtual conversations among the 2019-2020 class of fellows from American architecture schools and faculty. Participants include GSAPP alumni Karen Kubey ‘09 MArch, Galen Pardee '16 MArch, and Amelyn Ng '19 MSCCCP, and Sylvia Lavin '90 PhD GSAS. Register here for the upcoming discussion “Publics” on Jan. 19 at 6PM ET. |
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