Event
Symposium
2023–2024 Public Programs, Spring Edition, Cosponsored with the Rice University Office of Research
Feb. 27, 2024
2:00pm to 7:00pm
La Cité de Refuge de L’armée du Salut, 12 Rue Cantagrel, 75013 Paris
How do and how should we write about urban design today with more than half the global population living in cities, in the context of environmental collapse, amidst staggering inequality, facing crises in housing supply and affordability, after the spatial fallout of the pandemic, within a choppy disciplinary landscape, amid an ongoing reckoning with racism, colonialism, neoliberalism, and political extremism? This symposium invites a small group of leading critics, theorists, practitioners, pedagogues, and historians of urban design, representing a wide range of approaches and positions, to reconsider their own writing and the writing of others. It asks them to help us confront our urban present.
Participants
Tom Avermaete, ETH Zürich
John J. Casbarian, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston and Paris
Scott Colman, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston
Françoise Fromonot, ENSA Paris-Belleville and Rice Architecture Paris
Reto Geiser, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston
Janina Gosseye, TU Delft
Igor Marjanović, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston
Albert Pope, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston
Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Charles Waldheim, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge