Next Friday, October 1st, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and IfUD Board Member Saskia Sassen will present Cities and Eco-Crises, a conference that will bring together a diverse group of scholars — urbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists, and sustainable cities activists — to address the relationship between cities and the environment. The event will take place in Avery Hall’s Wood Auditorium on the Columbia campus in New York from 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Registration is encouraged.
Sassen Organizes “Cities and Eco-Crises” Conference
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Columbia’s GSAPP Stages Summer Lectures
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation’s summer lecture series will feature two Institute-relevant events in July: those of you who enjoyed our May 6th Breakfast Club on MoMA’s Rising Currents show may be interested to know that Columbia faculty from three of the design teams (nARCHITECTS, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, and SCAPE) will discuss their participation in the show at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, July 21; and at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, July 28, IfUD Fellow Kate Orff will take part in a discussion with artist Mary Miss on the City as a Living Laboratory.
9th Breakfast Club
Friday, June 25th, 2010
On June 24, IfUD Fellows gathered at the Architectural League of New York’s The City We Imagined, The City We Made exhibition in Lower Manhattan for our 9th Breakfast Club to discuss the subject of the show, development in New York City over the past decade, with its curators, Rosalie Genevro and Gregory Wessner. We were also joined by Columbia University’s Vishaan Chakrabarti, whom many of you may know through his participation in last fall’s Arrested Development symposium, Gregg Pasquerelli of SHoP Architects, who spoke about his work on the Atlantic Yards project, and Emiliano Espasandin, a member of the team that imagined the transportation future of Buenos Aires for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy’s Our Cities Ourselves exhibit, which opened last night at the Center for Architecture. Thanks to everyone who made it to the Club; a photo album is up on our Facebook page, so take a look!
Harlem vs. Columbia: A New Book
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Join C-SPAN Book TV and the Brecht Forum as they launch the publication of Stefan M. Bradley’s new book Harlem vs. Columbia University. Bradley examines the 1969 student takeover of Columbia University, solidarity between community members and white and Black students and the development of Black Power movements. Launch party is Monday, November 16th from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York.
Global Cities With Saskia Sassen
Friday, November 6th, 2009“The Global Power City Index: Toward an Urban Geopolitics?”, organized by the Committee on Global Thought and Institute board member Saskia Sassen at Columbia University, will be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3pm in the Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall.
Speakers include:
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Member,
Committee on Global Thought
Hiroo Ishikawa, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Meiji University
Takayuki Kubo, Institute of Urban Studies, The Mori Memorial Foundation
Heizoo Takenaka, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Japan
Safari 7 Reading Room Opens at Studio-X
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Safari 7 Reading Room, a project by Institute fellow Kate Orff of Urban Landscape Lab and MTWTF, is an exhibition at Columbia University’s Studio-X that will run from October 15 to December 31, 2009.
Safari 7 Reading Room Exhibition at Studio-X
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Institute fellow Kate Orff and Janette Kim of the Urban Landscape Lab (Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) and MTWTF (Glen Cummings) have organized Safari 7 Reading Room, an exhibition at Columbia University’s Studio-X where “visitors may learn more about urban nature and transportation infrastructure as means of ecological and community engagement.” The opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 15 from 7-9pm, and the exhibition will run from October 15 to December 31, 2009.
Cities and the New Wars Conference, September 25 and 26
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Institute board member Saskia Sassen and the Committee on Global Thought have organized Cities and the New Wars, a two-day conference on September 25th and 26th, 2009 at Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall, Columbia University.
The multiple meanings of the new urban wars: asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the “urban enemy,” forms of economic violence that kill, cities and urban space as a technology for war, reapropriating the city of fear, civil war refugees and their flight from and to cities, measuring human rights violations during war.
The limits of power and of war: the role of the civic, war and law, the growing global web of interdependencies — all can contest the most powerful states and all can undermine the idea of victory in war. Conditions under which powerlessness becomes complex and transcends mere victimhood.
Habitat Fragmentation Lecture by Winka Dubbeldam
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Wednesday September 16th at 6:30pm, Institute fellow Winka Dubbeldam will lecture on Habitat Fragmentation at Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall, Columbia University.
The Commons, Studio-X, Columbia University, New York
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
A panel discussion at Columbia University’s Studio-X titled The Commons featured Institute executive director Olympia Kazi alongside Nora Libertun de Duren, director of Planning, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; Brooke Singer, artist; Michael Mandiberg, artist; and Mark Shepard, SUNY-Buffalo. The event was moderated by Gavin Browning of Studio-X. More
