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:282@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T190000 DTSTAMP:20191127T190129Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/sciame-lecture-series-rahul-mehrotra/ SUMMARY:Sciame Lecture Series: Rahul Mehrotra + Filiep Decorte DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nRahul Mehrotra will be joined in conversation with F iliep Decorte\, followed by a response from guest provocateur Deen Sharp. The evening will be moderated by Loukia Tsafoulia and Adjunct Associate Pr ofessor Suzan Wines.\n\n \;\n\nRahul Mehrotra is a practicing architec t\, urban designer and educator. He works in Mumbai and Boston\, and teach es at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he is prof essor of urban design and planning. His practice\, RMA Architects (www.RMA architects.com)\, founded in 1990\, has executed a range of projects: corp orate office buildings\, a library\, a lab building\, university buildings \, and a series of social advocacy initiatives including community toilets and a low-income housing project for elephants and their keepers\, common ly referred to as mahouts. RMA Architects has also initiated several unsol icited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. Mehrotra has written\, co-authored and edited a vast repertoire of books on Mumbai\, its urban history\, historic buildings\, public spac es and planning processes.\n\n \;\n\nFiliep Decorte is currently the  Deputy Director of UN-Habitat’s New York Liaison Office and the foc al point for UN-Habitat’s crisis-related work in New York. He was act ing Director from December 2016 to February 2018. He played a key role i n developing an urban track towards the World Humanitarian Summit and the emerging Global Alliance for Urban Crises. \n\nDuring his career\, Filie p has predominantly focused on urban initiatives in conflict- and crisis- affected countries\, specializing in urban planning\, land\, and housing issues. He globally focuses on migration\, displacement\, land and confli ct and the humanitarian -development nexus. He has worked for UN-Habitat for more than fifteen years in different capacities\, including long-ter m assignments in Haiti\, the occupied Palestinian territory\, Somalia\, a nd Morocco. He also acted as coordinator for UN-Habitat’s Global Disas ter Management Program. He was trained as a civil engineer\, architect\, and urban and regional planner with advanced master’s degrees from th e Universities of Ghent and Leuven in Belgium. \n\n \;\n\nDeen Sharp is a post-doctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architectur e at MIT and co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisin gs (UR Books\, 2016).\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the pu blic\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sci ame Auditorium. Continuing Education Credit for registered New York archit ects is available.\n\nLecture series sponsored by Sciame . . . Where Build ing Is an Art. CATEGORIES:Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, 141 Convent Aven ue\, 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=Bernard and Ann e Spitzer School of Architecture:geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR