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:501@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T190000 DTSTAMP:20220413T042610Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/spring-2021-sciame-lecture-series-cra ig-wilkins/ SUMMARY:Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: Craig Wilkins DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second event of our Spring Lecture Serie s\, titled "Other Architectures..."\, featuring Craig Wilkins.⁠\n\nThis lecture is part of the 2022 Spring Sciame Lecture Series\, themed “Radic al Black Space.”\n⁠\nAll lectures will be presented via Zoom and held on Thursdays at 6pm NYC time. ⁠\n\n \;\nSPEAKER\nCraig Wilkins\n\nA 2020 Bradford Grant Medal winner in Landscape Architecture and 2017 Smiths onian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum National Design Award winner\, architect \, artist\, academic\, and activist\, Dr. Craig L. Wilkins’ creative pra ctice specializes in engaging communities in collaborative and participato ry design processes. The former director of the Detroit Community Design C enter\, he is currently creative director of the Wilkins project\, a soci al justice\, strategic design alliance that provides architectural\, urban design\, and planning services\, public interest design solutions\, and e xpertise in engaged public discourse. Dr. Wilkins is also the author of mu lti-award-winning “The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race\, Space\, Ar chitecture &\; Music” (University of Minnesota 2007) and “Diversi ty Among Architects: From Margin to Center” (Routledge 2016). He is curr ently an associate professor at the University of Michigan College of Arch itecture and Urban Planning\, where he teaches courses on design and socia l justice.\n\nwww.clwilks.com\n\nSuggested Readings:\nBreaking the Dead Pa radigm\nInnervisions\n\n \;\nSeries Theme -- Radical Black Space\nThe Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture series\, themed Radical Black Space\, brings to gether architects\, preservationists\, planners\, artists\, and historians of color at a precipitous moment. The Movement for Black Lives demands th at Americans from all walks of life confront racism and its sordid impact on constructed environments\, and understand the rich\, vital tradition of Black resistance\, innovation\, and creativity. Speakers will touch on ma ny questions: How do the places and things made by African Americans disru pt the racial status quo in the United States? How is difference celebrate d? How is equity imagined and achieved? What constitutes anti-racist spati al practice? Radical Black Space shows that the Black radical tradition is alive in art and architecture\, and that having a handle on Black history is essential to understanding the present and shaping the future. Join us to find revolution in the everyday and to recognize the extraordinary pla ces and objects that Black Americans make and the stories they tell about themselves. Radical Black Space is convened by Marta Gutman and Jerome Haf erd.\nSciame Lecture Series with additional funding provided by the Bernar d &\; Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Fund. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR