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:758@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260126T234003Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/spring-2026-sciame-lecture-series-joy ce-hwang/ SUMMARY:Spring 2026 Sciame Lecture Series: Joyce Hwang DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP\nThis in-person lecture is part of the Spring 2026 Sciame Lecture Series\, "The Elephant in the Room: Locating Animal Lives i n Buildings\, Cities\, and Landscapes."\n\nJoyce Hwang\, FAIA\, NOMA\, (sh e/her) is a Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo SUNY\, Director of Ants of the Prairie\, partner at Double Happiness\, and a core organizer for Dark Matter U. For nearly two decades\, she has been develo ping projects that incorporate wildlife habitats into constructed environm ents. She is a recipient of the WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize\ , Exhibit Columbus University Research Design Fellowship\, Architectural L eague Emerging Voices Award\, MacDowell Fellowship\, and NYFA/NYSCA Fellow ship\, among other awards. Her work has been featured by a range of platfo rms\, including MoMA\, Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, Matadero Madrid\, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Based in Buffalo\, she is a registered arch itect in New York State.\n\n"In Consideration of Neighbors": The lecture w ill reflect on the trajectory of Joyce Hwang’s research and practice to discuss how we might learn from our living environment in engaged and empa thic ways. Considering our more-than-human neighbors and communities\, her work explores how architecture can proactively integrate multispecies hab itats into our shared built environment\, focusing on ways in which archit ecture can address not only the significant crisis of biodiversity loss\, but also advocate for multispecies kinship and climate justice.\n\nIn this presentation\, Joyce will discuss her roles as both a design practitioner and educator\, exploring collaborations with nonprofit organizations\, ac ademic institutions\, public agencies\, local businesses\, and interdiscip linary partners – including Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, the Bentway Conser vancy\, Civitella Ranieri\, Matadero Madrid\, City as Living Lab (CaLL)\, Artpark Western New York\, Silo City Buffalo\, Landmark Columbus\, the Aus tralian Capital Territory’s Department of Parks and Conservation\, Austr alian National University (ANU)\, and University at Buffalo\, among others .\n\nSuggested Readings:\n\nChapter 8: “Incorporating Empathy: To Middle Species\, With Love\, Columbus\, Indiana” in Empathic Design: Perspecti ves on Creating Inclusive Spaces\, ed. Elgin Cleckley.\n\nLiving Among Pes ts (written in 2013\, published in Volume Magazine\, republished in Next N ature)\n\nHeadshot photo credit: Douglas Levere.\n\n"The Elephant in the R oom: Locating Animal Lives in Buildings\, Cities\, and Landscapes" takes i ts title from the expression “the elephant in the room\,” which origin ates in the Russian author Ivan Krylov’s 1814 fable “The Inquisitive M an.” In the story\, a visitor to a natural history museum becomes so ent hralled with countless “birds and beasts” that he overlooks the larges t of them all: a colossal elephant. As the expression gained currency\, an y reference to real animals gave way to metaphorical ones. The spring 2026 Sciame lecture series takes the idiom literally by addressing the common failure to notice all animals in the built environment. In the lecture ser ies\, scholars\, designers\, thinkers\, and activists cast light on imagin ing\, designing\, and sharing buildings\, cities\, and landscapes with oth er species.\n\nMaking space for animals in the built environment often req uires diverting attention away from our human perspective and desires\, th us troubling our own anthropocentrism and claims about human exceptionalis m. More often than not\, the built environment creates antagonistic\, if n ot deadly\, conditions for animals. Ballooning construction campaigns\, in vasive resource extraction for building materials\, and hermetically seale d structures have all decimated animal habitats and killed countless anima ls. Given the planetary threats of diminishing biodiversity\, the climate crisis\, and health emergencies\, recentering animal lives and human-anima l relationships in the built environment is critical to the survival of al l animal life.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. Fo r live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please conta ct ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the S pitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. 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