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:392@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T200000 DTSTAMP:20211213T155626Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/everyday-ecologies-lecture-2/ SUMMARY:Everyday Ecologies: Lecture 2 DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public - Please register for this Zoom eve nt here.\n\nThe future of the human species is bound up in how we design\, plan\, and live within emergent extremes in global ecosystems. Paralysis in the face of contentious issues\, uncritical acceptance of traditional r oles\, sectors\, and hierarchies\, and unquestioned long-held truths inhib it development of new ideas and approaches to design effectively. To insti gate new approaches\, we have invited designers\, planners\, historians\, and social scientists to talk about Everyday Ecosystems: the boundless com munities we are part of—a cocktail of cultures crossing economic and cla ss strata with overlapping gender\, racial\, and spiritual identities—th at complement but also compete with each other and conflict internally for rights and means to perpetuate their cultural identities\, social relatio ns\, and environmental resource needs and desires.\nSpeakers will present a “zombie” idea or theory that one of their projects contests through design\, planning\, or projective research and analysis. Together\, we aim to develop principles that will establish a foothold from which to launch a new approach to design and planning discourse based neither on privileg ed solutions by experts nor abdication of authorship in lieu of community determinism.\n\n\nElizabeth Hénaff is a computational biologist with an a rt practice and an Assistant Professor in the Technology\, Culture and Soc iety department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. At the center of her work is a fascination with the way living beings interact with their e nvironment. This inquiry has produced a body of work that ranges from scie ntific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, to projects with landscape arc hitects\, to art installations. She has shown work at the 2016 Venice Arch itecture Biennale\, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC\, the D etroit Science Gallery and the Okayama Biennial Art Summit. She consistent ly makes the tools - software\, wetware\, hardware - needed to answer her research questions.\n\n \;\n\nKate Orff is a Professor at Columbia GSA PP and Director of the Urban Design Program. Orff is a registered landscap e architect and the founder of SCAPE\, an award-winning professional pract ice based in lower Manhattan. The firm has won National and local American Society of Landscape Architecture Awards for built projects\, planning an d communications work\, and the work of the office has been featured on th e cover of Landscape Architecture magazine\, LA China and Topos\, and in T he New York Times\, New Yorker and Economist. She collaborated with photog rapher Richard Misrach on the exhibition and book\, Petrochemical America (2014). Kate Orff was awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.\n\n \;\n\nA ndrea Parker is Executive Director of Gowanus Canal Conservancy\, the chie f environmental steward for the Gowanus Canal Watershed.  In this role\, she has led coordination of community members\, partner organizations\, el ected officials\, and agency representatives towards development of the Go wanus Lowlands Master Plan\, which leverages multiple ongoing land use and remediation processes to plan for a network of resilient\, vibrant and ac cessible parks and public spaces centered on the Gowanus Canal.  She is a dditionally a lecturer in Ecology in the graduate program in landscape arc hitecture at CCNY\, and has a background as a landscape architect and hort icultural activist.\n\n \;\n\nErika Svendsen is a social scientist wit h the U.S. Forest Service\, Northern Research Station. A leader in the fie ld of environmental stewardship as it relates to community development\, g overnance\, and human well-being\, she is the co-Director of the New York City urban field station\, a partnership between the Forest Service\, NYC Parks\, several NGOs\, and academic institutions. The field station is par t of a network of cities and agencies promoting research\, cultivating ide as\, and fostering collaboration among scientists and practitioners. She c o-authored How Planting Trees Strengthens the Roots of Democracy (2015) an d she received an Early Career Scientist Award recognizing her co-developm ent of STEW-MAP\, a tool for assessing and visualizing the contributions o f civic stewardship groups.\n\n \;\n\nThaisa Way is an urban landscape historian at the University of Washington and Program Director of Garden &\; Landscapes Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collectio ns where she leads a Mellon Urban Humanities Initiative titled "Democracy and the Urban Landscape: Race\, Identity\, and Difference." Her publicatio ns include: Unbounded Practices: Women\, Landscape Architecture\, and Earl y Twentieth Century Design (2009\, awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Award in 2012)\, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: the Landscape Archit ecture of Richard Haag (2015) and GGN 1999-2018 (2018). She has edited two books in urban environmental history and practice: Now Urbanism with Jeff Hou\, Ken Yocom\, and Ben Spencer (2013)\, and River Cities/City Rivers ( 2018). 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