On this page you will find a listing of events with topics relevant to our course. Extra credit can be earned by attending and writing, then posting, a 3–5 page review blog.
Feb. 9
Ways of Knowing Cities
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
This one-day conference will be live streamed to Brownie’s Cafe and room 114 in Avery Hall and online at arch.columbia.edu.
Technology increasingly mediates the way that knowledge, power, and culture interact to create and transform the cities we live in. Ways of Knowing Cities is a one-day conference which brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across multiple disciplines to consider the role that technologies have played in changing how urban spaces and social life are structured and understood – both historically and in the present moment.
More info at Ways of Knowing Cities
Feb. 15 – May 19
Social Housing – New European Projects
Opening event is Feb. 15, 6:00-8:00 pm; Exhibit runs through May 19
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan
Opening event is free, but you must register online. Exhibit is free with student ID
Social Housing features innovative examples of not-for-profit housing at a critical juncture for the sector. Drawing together 25 European case studies by 20 practices, it looks at a range of building and dwelling typologies, emerging design approaches, and refurbishment strategies. Together, they offer a challenge to housing professionals and citizens in the US to rethink how they build.
There is no common definition of ‘social housing;’ the projects presented in the exhibition include public projects led by government or city authorities, philanthropic schemes led by charities, and collective schemes led by residents. Common to them all, however, is the idea that there are alternatives to purely market-oriented housing provision.
More info at Social Housing
Feb. 28
Community Land Trusts and Other Permanently Affordable Housing Provision in NYC and Barcelona
5:00-7:30 pm
The New School University Center
63 Fifth Avenue, Room UL 105 (lower floor)
free
The commodification of housing and neighborhoods has increasingly produced alienation and anxiety across low- and moderate-income communities in large cities. As a response, grassroots and nonprofit groups have organized and demanded community-control over housing and neighborhood restructuring processes. This panel aims to discuss progressive housing development policies and approached envisioned and implemented to guarantee permanent affordable housing in New York City and Barcelona.
More info at Community Land Trusts panel
March 20
Affordable Housing in North America
6:00-8:00 pm
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan
$10 for public; free with student ID
How do architects in North American cities approach the design of affordable housing? This program will look at projects based in cities besides New York to shed light on how architects work with local conditions to tackle the growing need for well-designed affordable housing.
More info at Affordable Housing in North America
April 13
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity
Time: 1 pm
Place: Campbell Dome
Queens College
Event is free
Speaker: Steven Banks, commissioner of New York City Department of Social Services.
Additional details to come.
