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:582@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T193000 DTSTAMP:20240522T203458Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/spring-2023-sciame-lecture-series-lee na-cho/ SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Leena Cho DESCRIPTION:This lecture was held in person and was part of the Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation."\n\n \;\n\nLeena Cho is an assistant profess or and graduate program director in the Department of Landscape Architectu re at the University of Virginia and co-director of Arctic Design Group an d Kutonotuk. Her research focuses on material agencies and scientific site s in the arctic to examine emerging forms of landscape and landscape pract ice in an age of climate change. Her design research has been funded by nu merous organizations such as the Anchorage Museum\, the U.S. National Scie nce Foundation\, and the World Bank\, and has been exhibited nationally an d internationally including at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and Venice Architecture Biennale. She received her MLA from Harva rd University and BA from Wellesley College.\n\n"Climate Practice from Arc tic Fieldwork": Extreme environments and amplified climate experiences suc h as in the Arctic offer what environmental historians Pei-Yi Chu and Andr ew Stuhl (2017) call a “curious discord”—a productive agitation of l andscape preconceptions and (design) norms often formed in temperate world s and the necessary unsettling to imagine new environmental futures in an age of climate change. The lecture will focus on Alaska\, a territory that extends from the Pacific Rim to the Arctic Ocean\, as an example that agi tates and expands our material-temporal conceptions of space as well as mo des of landscape inquiry and practice. By sampling recent design research that bridges humanities and science and foregrounds different forms of col laborations\, the talk will highlight ways to probe climates\, and shape c limate knowledge and landscape.\n\nSuggested Reading: “The Perennial Sol idity of Water\,” Journal of Architectural Education\, 74:1\, p. 120-12 2.\n\n \;\n\n"Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Tr anslation" begins with what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place\, a sea wh ere ideas\, people\, and artifacts move. It questions the framing of this great body of water as a barrier or a void\, concepts that are rooted in c olonialism and imperialism. Instead\, it posits the Pacific as an active s tage for exchanging and translating ideas\, concepts\, materials\, and tec hnologies about constructed environments. The designers\, scholars\, pract itioners\, and activists featured in this series are situated along the Pa cific Rim. They examine areas\, products\, and product histories along the Pacific Rim. They call on this positionality to offer exceptional\, trans national\, boundary-breaking\, hybrid practices and research that contribu te to a shared environment and a collective future.\n\n \;\n\nAll lect ures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spit zer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium with a remote option availabl e.\n\nIf you are interested in attending via Zoom\, please register here. \n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements f or in-person visitors.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. CATEGORIES:Archived Video,Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, 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=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR