The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021
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The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021

The Architectural Initiative for Diversity (AID) will be kicking off The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Virtual Symposium 2021 with a discussion on "Justice & the Creator God" on Saturday the 16th while the main day will be the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Monday, January 18.

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“House & Home: A Conversation,” Columbia University
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“House & Home: A Conversation,” Columbia University

I will be in conversation with the architecturally trained visual artist Amanda Williams, architect, educator, and author, Professor Hansy Better Barraza, and fellow BSA+GSAPP members Skylar Royal and Ife Salema Vanable where we will explore forms of cultural production in which “house” and “home,” mobilized as architectural allegory and material object (“thing,” with its attendant systems of construction, finance, land, and labor), advance and/or refute claims on agency, authorship, and normativity.

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Buell Center: Green Reconstruction Curricular Workshop
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Buell Center: Green Reconstruction Curricular Workshop

On July 30, i will be moderating a workshop of twenty-six teachers from professional schools in the built environment gathered virtually with the Buell Center and additional faculty from Columbia GSAPP, for an online workshop on "Green Reconstruction," which studies the interconnectedness of today's crises of care, political economy, and climate.

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“Surrounds: The City, the University, and Insurgency,” with the podcast African Mobilities 2.0
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“Surrounds: The City, the University, and Insurgency,” with the podcast African Mobilities 2.0

I will be joining a roundtable discussion on the “Surrounds: The City, The University, and Insurgency,” joined by other members of the Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP [BSA+GSAPP] and hosted by the podcasters (African Mobilities 2.0) and curator Mpho Matsipa to respond to the latest episode of African Mobilities 2.0 on enclosure featuring GSAPP faculty members Justin Garrett Moore and Global Africa Lab co-directors Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden.

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Threshold 48: Kin, “Get-together” Launch Party
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Threshold 48: Kin, “Get-together” Launch Party

Watch the digital launch party for the 48th volume of Thresholds! Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and distributed by the MIT Press. Each independently themed issue features content from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, and culture. Thresholds 48: Kin is edited by Stratton Coffman, Dalma Földesi, and Sarah Wagner.

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