Archive | November, 2014
Spatial Ordering of Exile: The Architecture of Palestinian Refugee Camps A Talk by Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal
17 Nov
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosts a lecture by Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal entitled “Spatial Ordering of Exile: The Architecture of Palestinian Refugee Camps.”
The lecture is followed by a roundtable discussion with Ilana Feldman (Associate Professor of Anthropology, History and International Affairs at George Washington University), Carin Kuoni (Director of Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School for Public Engagement) and Ann Stoler (Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research).
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are both architects and researchers in urbanism, members of DAAR, an architectural office and an artistic residency program that combines conceptual speculations and architectural interventions. DAAR was awarded the Price Claus Prize for Architecture, the Foundation for Arts initiative Grant, shortlisted for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize and showed in various biennales and museums around the world. Alongside research and practice, Hilal and Petti are engaged in critical pedagogy, they are founding members of Campus in Camps an experimental educational program by Al Quds University hosted by the Phoenix Center in Dheisheh refugee camp Bethlehem.
More recently Petti and Hilal co-authored with Eyal Weizman the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, Berlin 2014) an invitation to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization.
The event is part of the 2014-15 Lecture Series “Rethinking Refugee Spaces: Architecture, Design, and Politics” and is co-sponsored by Global Studies, Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Bard College.
Ron Shiffman Symposium on Participatory Design and Advocacy Planning
17 NovFriday, Nov 21, 2014, 5:00 PM—8:00 PM, and
Saturday, Nov 22, 2014, 9:00 AM—3:00 PM
Location: Higgins Hall South 111: Architecture Lecture (61 St. James Pl, Brooklyn, NY)
This symposium will bring together leaders of the advocacy architecture and participatory planning movement to discuss, in two panel discussions, the foundation and the future of participatory design and advocacy planning.
Participants will include founder of advocacy planning Roger Katan, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, esteemed educators and planners Ken Reardon and Roberta Feldman, and other leaders of the advocacy architecture and participatory planning movement.
The event will also include an exhibition celebrating the community development work of Ron Shiffman, his collaborators, colleagues, and his many students on view during the evening.
More information.
WRITING WORKSHOP II on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12!
11 Nov
II) DEVELOPING AND EXECUTING AN ARGUMENT + (newly added) PROPOSALS
November 12th from 12.30pm-2.00pm in Room 301
This workshop will address how to develop an effective argument for an Art History paper, whether grounded in formal analysis or research. All good writing is grounded in swaying the reader to your side, and it is a skill that proves useful beyond the classroom. During this hour and a half, we will go over how to approach crafting a paper from inception to final edits and submission.
Where does one start?
- Unpacking an essay prompt
- Gauging the effectiveness of a thesis
How does one do effective research?
- Common databases and bibliographic engines for research
- Evaluating the reliability of a source
- Adjusting your thesis based upon the results of your research
What makes a good thesis into a good paper?
- Recognizing proper voice and academic tone
- Effective thesis statements and paper structure
- Best practices during editing
This session will build off the preceding workshop on citation methods. Students are en
Taming Manhattan: An Illustrated Book Talk by Catherine McNeur
11 Nov
Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 6:30 pm
New York University Department of Art History
Silver Center, Room 301
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)
Taming Manhattan (Harvard University Press, 2014) details the environmental history of the city in the years before and during the Civil War, when pigs roamed the streets and cows foraged in the Battery. As city blocks encroached on farmland and undeveloped space to accommodate an exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers and their poorer neighbors developed very different ideas about what the city environment should contain. This presentation will focus on nineteenth-century New York City’s long forgotten shantytowns, the people living in the communities, and how outsiders viewed the architecture and communities developing on the metropolitan periphery
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required as space is limited.
To reserve, please contact Brigid Harmon at bharmon@hdc.org or 212-614-9107
This event is co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies and the Historic Districts Council.
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