Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20 Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20

“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.

Malcolm John Rio 7/30/20 Malcolm John Rio 7/30/20

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.

Malcolm John Rio 7/25/20 Malcolm John Rio 7/25/20

“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.

Malcolm John Rio 3/30/19 Malcolm John Rio 3/30/19

“Black Production and the Space of the University,” at Columbia University

I will be a panelist at BSA+GSAPP’s symposium, “Black Production and the Space of the University” on Saturday, March 30, 2019, 10:00 A.M.