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John T. Dunlop Lecture: Margot Kushel, The Toxic Problem of Poverty + Housing Costs: Lessons from New Landmark Research About Homelessness

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

For over three decades, Dr. Margot Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness, particularly in California. Kushel, who recently led the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, will discuss insights that have emerged from her work as a

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International Womxn’s Day Keynote Address: Jack Halberstam, Trans* Anarchitectures 1975 to 2020

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

When we return to the an/architectural experiments of Gordon Matta Clark, we can find traces of earlier, potentially more radical projects than those that came to be compatible with liberal capitalism and we find them speaking in the language of unbuilding, breaking, cutting, collapsing, opening, dismantling. This lexicon has become potent in an era of

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Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Daniel Fernández Pascual, Being Shellfish: Architectures of Intertidal Cohabitation

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

As awareness about the environmental footprint of construction and the “mitigation” of its associated toxicities increases, transitions to other forms of building may connect to materials from intertidal origin that can also contribute to addressing the broken food chain. The lecture will discuss tidal zones as liminal spaces, as well as how different ingredients and

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Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Elizabeth K. Meyer, Unsettling Sustainability—Landscape Laboratories as Experimental and Experiential Grounds

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Meyer, the inaugural faculty director of the University of Virginia’s transdisciplinary Morven Sustainability Lab, will present an overview of how landscape architectural design thinking is at the core of the strategic planning process for this 3000-acre rural landscape on the peri-urban edge of Charlottesville. She will describe how the socio-ecological history of this former plantation

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Lecture by Senior Loeb Scholar Malkit Shoshan: Designing Within Conflict

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Lecture by Senior Loeb Scholar Malkit Shoshan Shoshan is a designer, author, and educator. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), which initiates and develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights In her work, she uses spatial design tools to make visible systemic violence,

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Christina Sharpe, What Could a Vessel Be?

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

What Could a Vessel Be? is an ongoing consideration of the vessel as idea, concept and material, in order to try to attend to and make sense of the multiple and overlapping crises of our time. What is or might a vessel be in a time of catastrophe? Lecture will be led by the author

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Marlon Blackwell, Radical Practice

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Architect and professor Marlon Blackwell will discuss his architecture and design process and will introduce Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects, a monograph released in June 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press. The lecture will take place on February 8 at the GSD Gund Hall Piper Auditorium from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

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Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster equitable and inclusive redevelopment in cities? That’s the challenge that has animated the career of Kimberly Dowdell  MPA '15, an architect, developer, and educator who is focused on leading projects that help contribute to the revitalization of cities like Detroit, and also preparing the next

Rosi Braidotti, “Posthuman Knowledge”

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

This lecture is built on the assumption that we are currently situated in a posthuman convergence between the Fourth industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction, between and advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and non-human entities. This convergence calls for a

Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: David Hartt, “Urban Futures of the Recent Past”

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

This talk borrows the sub-title from Reyner Banham’s seminal book Megastructure, published in 1976.  As a reference, Banham’s text critiques the failure of translating the energy and optimism of 60’s era civic projects into lasting institutions; thus creating fertile conditions for the seeds of our own post-ideological crisis to germinate in the capitalist restructuration of the mid 70’s.  Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative

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José Esparza Chong Cuy, “Building Cycles”

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

This lecture will look into the life cycle of exhibitions, institutions, and buildings through a selection of projects Esparza Chong Cuy has been involved in over the last decade. José Esparza Chong Cuy is the newly appointed Executive Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture. He will be assuming this position on November

José Esparza Chong Cuy, “Building Cycles”

Gund Hall Piper Auditorium 48 Qunicy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

This lecture will look into the life cycle of exhibitions, institutions, and buildings through a selection of projects Esparza Chong Cuy has been involved in over the last decade. José Esparza Chong Cuy is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he recently co-organized a major collection exhibition to celebrate

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