BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:809@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261105T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261105T153000 DTSTAMP:20260811T163013Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/colloquium-why-housing-matters/ SUMMARY:Colloquium: Why Housing Matters DESCRIPTION:Registration is forthcoming. \nThis in-person colloquium is pa rt of the exhibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Ce ntre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Publ ic Space\, "Design Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space".\nWhat defines “secure” housing today? Who has access to it\, and who is left out? H ow do policies and markets shape these conditions? What role can design pl ay in addressing displacement and affordability? And how might housing re spond to climate realities while remaining equitable? What would it mean t o treat housing as a right rather than a privilege? How can we imagine new models of living that support both individual dignity and collective well -being?\nIntroduction: Prof. Kaja Kuehl\n\nModerator: Prof. Laura Wainer\n \nPanelists (15-minute presentations):\n\nMimi Hoang\, Architect and Princ ipal\, nARCHITECTS\, New York\n\nJing Liu\, Architect and Principal\, SO-I L\, New York\n\nCassim Shepard\, Distinguished Lecturer\, Spitzer School o f Architecture\n--\nProf. Kaja Kuehl (she/her) is Founding Principal at yo uarethecity\, a research and design practice based in Brooklyn\, NY.  Kaj a has extensive architecture\, urban design\, and planning experience from large-scale urban systems and policies to civic engagement and circular m aterial practices. Her current research and design work on designing with biobased materials has been published and exhibited widely and is subject to many of her courses. Kaja received a Diploma in Architecture from the K arlsruhe Institute of Technology\, Germany and a M.S. in Urban Planning fr om Columbia University. She teaches seminars and design studios at Columbi a University and the City College of New York in addition to frequent work shops in non-institutional settings.\n\nSuggested Reading: Kuehl\, Kaja\, and Julie Behrens. “Spaces of Migration.” Architectural Design 88\, no . 2 (2018): 86–93 and Kuehl\, Kaja. “Housing as Carbon Storage.” In Atlas for Regenerative Construction in the American Northeast\, 72–99. [ New York]: youarethecity\, 2025.\n\nProf. Laura Wainer (she/her) studies h ow housing policy and design shape social and political life. An Argentine architect and urban planner\, she is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bernard &\; Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, C CNY. In her forthcoming book she argues that housing is where democracy is made material: in who gets to own\, to stay\, to decide. More than twenty years of applied design practice and collaborations with institutions suc h as the International Growth Centre at Oxford\, Habitat for Humanity\, an d the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy taught her to translate in both dir ections: to bring field evidence into scholarship\, and to make research l egible to the people who actually build and govern cities. A Fulbright sch olar\, she holds a PhD from MIT.\n\nSuggested Reading: Adler\, Vanessa\, a nd Tatiana Vera\, eds. Housing: What's Next? From Thinking the Unit to Bui lding the City. Washington\, DC: Inter-American Development Bank\, 2018 an d Wainer\, Laura Sara\, Valeska Abarca\, Lorraine Colbert\, and Juan Jimen ez Giraldo. Pathways to Home: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Hous ing. New York: The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, The C ity College of New York\, 2025 and Wainer\, Laura Sara\, and Billy Ndengey ingoma. Incremental Housing\, and Other Design Principles for Low-Cost Hou sing. Project Report. London: International Growth Centre (IGC)\, November 2016 and Buckley\, Robert M.\, Achilles Kallergis\, and Laura Wainer. "Th e Emergence of Large-Scale Housing Programs: Beyond a Public Finance Persp ective." Habitat International 54 (May 2016): 199–209.\n\nMimi Hoang\, F AIA\, NOMA (she/her)\, co-founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a belie f in architecture as an agent of positive change that connects people and environments in unexpected ways. Her work across civic and private realms fosters engagement and is guided by an ambition to respond to changes in c ontemporary life – be it climate\, housing\, or affordability crises. Bo rn in the tropics of Vietnam\, she brings a global outlook and an obsessio n with greening buildings to the firm’s ethos. Mimi received her M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her B.Sc. from M.I.T.  Arc hitectural Record recently recognized her with a Women in Architecture Des ign Leadership Award. nARCHITECTS received a National Design Award from th e Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award.\n\nSuggested Reading: Canales\, Fernand a. My House\, Your City: Privacy in a Shared World. Barcelona: Puente Edit ores\, 2024.\n\nJing Liu (she/her) has been practicing for more than 15 ye ars\, working on a wide range of projects both in the US and abroad. Throu gh building practice and interdisciplinary research projects\, Liu has led SO–IL in the engagement with the socio-political issues of contemporary cities — in projects like the Artists Loft North Omaha and the Martin L uther King\, Jr. Library in Cleveland. Her projects range from artistic co llaborations with contemporary choreographers and visual artists to master plan and major public realm design in cities like Melbourne and Indianapo lis. Liu brings an intellectually open\, globally aware\, and locally sens itive perspective to architecture. Her curiosity and artistic imagination allow her to bring a nuanced cultural perspective to the table. Her keen s kills in combining digital technology with traditional craft and firm beli ef in design’s ability to re-engage people with the physical world aroun d them allow the buildings she designs to become places of exchange that w elcome interpretation and transformation.\n\nSuggested Reading: SO–IL. I n Depth: Urban Domesticities Today. New York: SO–IL\, 2024.\n\nAll collo quia are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spit zer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. 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