This year we have the honor to welcome Pakistan’s first female architect, Yasmeen Lari, who will be speaking about groundbreaking work in her lecture “Current Work, The Architect for the Poorest of the Poor”. SPEAKER INFO Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first female architect. Born in 1941 in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan, Mrs.
Conversation : The Black School Project The Black School (TBS) is an experimental art school educating Black/PoC students and allies in radical Black politics through workshops, a design firm, and festival. Based on our commitment to community building and our core principles of Black love, wellness, and self-determination, The Black School’s mission is to
Melting into Air: Architecture is the domain of interactions: the disciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise, the technical intervention of tools and techniques of practice, and even the physical interplay of objects, bodies, and particles in space. Beyond a reliance on form and object-making practices, Iman Ansari’s work considers architecture as a framework for
Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Shawn Rickenbacker come together to discuss the upcoming book, Nature of Enclosure (Actar Publishers, 2022). In this forum, topics and themes challenge historical episodes of the enclosed environment and reflect on its cultural impact in contemporary society. From Crystal Palace in 1851 to Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth in 1969, nature became enclosed. Claimed
Justin Garrett Moore is a transdisciplinary designer and urbanist. He serves as the program officer for the Humanities in Place program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where his work focuses on advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice through place-based initiatives and programs, built environments, cultural heritage projects, and commemorative spaces and landscapes. He has
Black Land Consortium Featuring Jerome Haferd, Emanuel Admassu, Curry Hackett, and Jennifer Newsom The Black Land Consortium is an ongoing dialogue, convened by Emanuel Admassu, Jerome Haferd, Curry Hackett, and Jennifer Newsom, to discuss how concerns of Blackness and Land relate to design and pedagogy today. In this live sharing and workshop session, the collaborators