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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T123000
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URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2021-sciame-lecture-series-neera
 -adarkar/
SUMMARY:Fall 2021 Sciame Lecture Series: Neera Adarkar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series\, titled Archi
 tectures of Care. "Pushing Boundaries: An Architect's Journey" will featur
 e Neera Adarkar.\n\nFree and open to the public -- please register here fo
 r this Zoom event.\n\nNeera Adarkar is an architect and an urban researche
 r based in Mumbai. After graduating in architecture from Sir J. J. College
 \, Mumbai University\, she completed her post-graduate studies in Industri
 al Design at IIT\, Mumbai. She has received an honorary doctorate from KU 
 Leuven\, Dept of Urbanism. She runs Adarkar Associates\, a joint practice 
 engaged in architecture\, planning\, conservation and urban research. Adar
 kar has been a visiting faculty in several architectural colleges in Mumba
 i and a member of the Syllabus Committee for Architecture\, Mumbai Univers
 ity and ex-member of Board of Studies for Architecture\, Goa University. S
 he is also a member of the Maharashtra Government appointed Committee of E
 xperts for Dharavi Redevelopment. Noting her contributions\, the Indian In
 stitute of Technology conferred upon her the Distinguished Alumnus Award i
 n 2013. Adarkar’s work emerges from deep concern for social\, urban and 
 gender issues. She is one of the founders of the Women Architects Forum an
 d of Majlis\, an NGO engaged in cultural and urban issues. She has been ac
 tive in several urban struggles and specifically in the textile mill worke
 rs’ struggle and in the formation of Mumbai Peoples’ Action Committee.
  She has co-authored with Meena Menon One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices
 \, Oral History of Millworkers of Girangaon (2004) and has edited the volu
 me The Chawls of Mumbai: Galleries of Life (2011). Adarkar has a wide rang
 e of publications and has delivered lectures in Mumbai\, Delhi\, New York\
 , Chicago\, Berkeley\, Cornell\, Leuven\, Columbia\, etc.\n\nSeries Theme 
 -- Architectures  of Care: In a world riven by inequality and indifferenc
 e\, care-work has become essential and highly visible in its capacity to c
 reate more sustainable worlds. How can architecture support and nurture ca
 re work and the values of cooperation and commoning that go with the recog
 nition of care as an essential form of labor? Convened by Spitzer faculty 
 Cesare Birignani and Vyjayanthi Rao\, “Architectures of Care” explores
  the notion of care and the ways in which architecture might contribute to
  repairing built environments and social fabrics.\n\nSciame Lecture Series
  with additional funding provided by the Bernard &amp\; Anne Spitzer Schoo
 l of Architecture Fund.\n\nSpeaker photo credit: Columbia University\, Cen
 ter for the Study of Social Difference
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
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