BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:66@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T150000 DTSTAMP:20170719T195952Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/design-against-denial-symposium/ SUMMARY:Design Against Denial Symposium DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Master of Landscape Architecture program\n\nTh e use of denial as a method of control of humans and their environment is not new\; it has often been framed as a necessity\, such as the widespread historic and contemporary denial of personal freedoms associated with pur itanical belief systems—and the flip side of that\, the denial of human responsibility for damage to the environment. To sustain policies of denia l—and deniability for their failings and flawed thinking—political dis course has been untethered from authority grounded in data\, metrics\, and science. The significance of atmospheric carbon quantification and climat e studies\, calculations of energy and agricultural resource availability\ , even economic and demographic statistics are routinely disputed by polit ical leaders and everyday citizens in support of their personal narratives empowering a denial of uncomfortable truths.\n\nDesign Against Denial aim s to be a countervailing force for open discussion and a mechanism to prom ote tactics to resist the increasingly binary thinking behind polarizing r hetoric. The symposium will present ideas for resistance in both the virtu al and physical realms. Each session\, morning and afternoon\, will be ope ned with presentations by researchers and designers working to communicate science\, environment\, and design thinking to a wide audience. The four talks will be followed by a moderated panel discussion of emerging technol ogies and opportunities for the invention and presentation of vivid real a nd fake futures that can speak convincingly across the language barrier th at divides those who believe in socioenvironmental outcomes modeled on pro babilities grounded in digital data collection and analytics—and those w ho do not.\n\nBios:\n\nIsaac Gertman is designer\, writer\, educator\, and typography enthusiast\, with a keen interest in the overlapping social\, cultural\, and infrastructural systems found in cities. His professional r oles are several: Principal of The Independent Group\, Design Director of Terreform\, and Full-time Faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art.\n\ nDenise Hoffman Brandt\, RLA is Associate Professor and Director of the Gr aduate Landscape Architecture Program at the City College of New York and Principal of Hoffman Brandt Projects\, LLC. Her work focuses on landscape as ecological infrastructure — the social\, cultural and environmental s ystems that generate urban form and sustain urban life.\n\n Christian How ard is a narrative designer working in games\, education and interactive m edia. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Technology\, Culture &\; Society at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering\, and serves as Ed ucation Director at the Rap Research Lab and Narrative Design Lead at Hidd en Level Games.\n\n Alison Irvine is a founding organizer of the Biodesig n Challenge\, a university competition that partners artists\, designers\, and scientists to envision the future of biotechnology. She researches cr eative practices that engage the public with basic science and new technol ogies in ways that promote social reflection and ethical scientific conduc t. Alison has also written articles on the intersection of art\, science\, and social justice for Imagine Science Films and The Center for Genetics and Society.\n\nLydia Kallipoliti is an architect\, engineer and scholar\, currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechni c Institute and the Center for Architecture\, Science and Ecology in New Y ork. She is the founder of ANAcycle thinktank and the author of Closed Wor lds\, Or\, What is the Power of Shit for which she received the ACSA award for creative achievement.\n\nTim Maly is a writer and design critic. His work focuses on the role of speculation\, magic\, and words at the strange edges of architecture and design. He's the acting Graduate Program Direct or for the Department of Industrial Design at RISD. He is a fellow at Harv ard’s metaLAB\, and co-founder of The Dredge Research Collaborative. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.\n\nCatherine Seavitt Nordenson\, ASLA\, AIA\, is an associate professor at the City College of New York and principal o f Catherine Seavitt Studio. Her research explores design adaptation to sea level rise in urban coastal environments and examines novel landscape res toration practices addressing climate change. Her book Structures of Coast al Resilience is forthcoming from Island Press\, 2017.\n\n Matthew Seiber t is a Lecturer at City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architec ture and a founding principal at Landscape Metrics\, a visualization studi o specializing in transforming data into compelling visual narratives. Cur rent research interests are grounded in representation of place\, includin g dynamic cartography\, parafictional histories of flood control infrastru cture\, and the leveraging of video game development engines. Matthew’s work has earned recognition from both private and governmental institution s\, as well as a variety of media outlets.\n\nMichael Sorkin  is Presiden t of Terreform\, a non-profit urban research center and publisher of UR Bo oks\, the Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio\, an international design pra ctice\, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Gradua te Program in Urban Design at the CCNY\, architecture critic for The Natio n\, and author or editor of twenty books.\n\n Gena Wirth is the Design Pr incipal at SCAPE. Trained in landscape architecture\, urban planning and h orticulture\, Gena draws from her interdisciplinary training to create eco logically rich and culturally relevant landscapes from the infrastructural scale to the site level. Gena leads the design on several significant pro jects in the office. She is an active member of the Dredge Research Collab orative\, a non-profit group that studies the design of sedimentary system s nationwide.\n\nSchedule\n\n9:30      coffee and presentation set up \n10: 00   welcome and introduction of theme/speakers Hoffman Brandt\n10 :10    Panelist presentations: Physical        \n10:10-10:25        Isaac Gertman\n10:25-11:40       Gena Wirth\n11:40-11:55        Timothy Maly\n10:55-11:10       Denise Hoffman Brandt\n 11:10-12:00       Moderated discussion   Michael Sorkin\n12:00     Lunch\n1:00 Panelist presentations: Virtual\n1:00-1:15            Matthew Seibert\n1:15-1:30           Alison Irvine\n1:30-1: 45           Christian Howard\n1:45-2:00           Cat herine Seavitt\n2:00-2:50           Moderated discussion   Lyd ia Kallipoliti\n2:50      Closing remarks (end by 3:00) Michael Sorki n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/201 7/07/DaD-Poster_poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Events LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR