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:391@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T200000 DTSTAMP:20211213T155626Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/everyday-ecologies-lecture-1/ SUMMARY:Everyday Ecologies: Lecture 1 DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public - Please register for this Zoom eve nt here.\nThe future of the human species is bound up in how we design\, p lan\, and live within emergent extremes in global ecosystems. Paralysis in the face of contentious issues\, uncritical acceptance of traditional rol es\, sectors\, and hierarchies\, and unquestioned long-held truths inhibit development of new ideas and approaches to design effectively. To instiga te new approaches\, we have invited designers\, planners\, historians\, an d social scientists to talk about Everyday Ecosystems: the boundless commu nities we are part of—a cocktail of cultures crossing economic and class strata with overlapping gender\, racial\, and spiritual identities—that complement but also compete with each other and conflict internally for r ights and means to perpetuate their cultural identities\, social relations \, and environmental resource needs and desires.\nSpeakers will present a “zombie” idea or theory that one of their projects contests through de sign\, planning\, or projective research and analysis. Together\, we aim t o develop principles that will establish a foothold from which to launch a new approach to design and planning discourse based neither on privileged solutions by experts nor abdication of authorship in lieu of community de terminism.\n\n\nMeet the contributors:\nSierra Bainbridge\, RLA is Senior Principal and Managing Director at MASS Design Group\, a non-profit practi ce that asserts architecture as a right and “public good” and that des igners are as accountable for social injustices as they are critical lever s to improve the communities they serve. Currently Sierra directs the ongo ing design and implementation of MASS’s planning and architectural proje cts\, including The Kayanja Center\, an academic facility supporting rural health care delivery and research in Uganda. Sierra served as Head of the Architecture Department at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Rwanda. Select features of Sierra’s work with MASS Design Gro up include A+U Magazine\, Lotus\, Mark Magazine\, and Detail.\n\nLindsay C ampbell is Research Social Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s Northern Research Station\, located at the NYC Urban Field Station. Her book\, City of Forests\, City of Farms examin es how the politics and practices of urban forestry and urban agriculture in New York City are negotiated. Her research explores the dynamics of urb an politics\, natural resource stewardship\, and sustainability policymaki ng. She is joint PI of STEW-MAP\, which maps the social networks and spati al turf of environmental stewardship groups.  Lindsay also helps lead the Science of the Living City program for the NYC Urban Field Station\, incl uding the artists in residence program.\n\nAndrea Johnson is a lecturer in the graduate landscape architecture program at CCNY. Her work explores th e intersection of urban infrastructural systems\, social and cultural valu es\, and ecological flux. As the research director of Terreform\, she coor dinated a number of projects\, most notably the organization’s forthcomi ng book Home Grown\, which proposes an integrated planning and design fr amework for more resilient\, just\, and equitable urban food networks. And rea is a 2020-2021 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow\, where she is investigating decentralized energy transitions in NYC and the ways in whi ch design can reinforce community movements that are interacting with phys ical infrastructure in new and creative ways.\n\nAmy Lerner is an Associat e Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego. From 2015 to 20 20 she was an assistant professor in the National Laboratory for Sustainab le Science in the Ecology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico\, UNAM\, Mexico City where she taught courses on Sustainability Science\, Transdisciplinary Research Methods\, and Global Environmental Ch ange and le research projects in Mexico City related to city-university pa rtnerships\, the persistence of peri-urban agriculture\, and capacity-buil ding in the local city government for risk management and resilience. Her research focuses on processes of landscape change and especially on the ru ral-urban frontier\, sustainable aspects of city planning\, including resi lience\, green infrastructure\, and urban and peri-urban agriculture\, and the science-policy interface.\n\nThaisa Way is an urban landscape histori an at the University of Washington and Program Director of Garden &\; L andscapes Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections where she leads a Mellon Urban Humanities Initiative titled "Democracy and the Urban Landscape: Race\, Identity\, and Difference." Her publications inclu de: Unbounded Practices: Women\, Landscape Architecture\, and Early Twenti eth Century Design (2009\, awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Award in 2012)\, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: the Landscape Architecture o f Richard Haag (2015) and GGN 1999-2018 (2018). She has edited two books i n urban environmental history and practice: Now Urbanism with Jeff Hou\, K en Yocom\, and Ben Spencer (2013)\, and River Cities/City Rivers (2018).\n \nDenise Hoffman Brandt\, RLA is former Director and Professor in the Grad uate Landscape Architecture Program at the City College of New York and Pr incipal of Hoffman Brandt Projects\, LLC. Selected speculative design rese arch projects have focused on: refugee camps (in The Right to Landscape 20 11)\, carbon storage infrastructure (City Sink 2013)\, and climate-adaptiv e infrastructure (Waterproofing New York\, co-edited with Catherine Seavit t Nordenson 2014). Critical writing includes “The body in the library\, or a blood meridian” (Journal of Landscape Architecture March 2018.\n CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR