| 11.28.22 |
| News from the Weitzman School of Design |
| Lara, Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Wodiczko Join Weitzman Faculty |
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| Weitzman welcomes architectural historian Fernando Lara, architect Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and artist Krzysztof Wodiczko to the faculty. Lara works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with an emphasis on the dissemination of design ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Ramsgaard Thomsen examines the intersections between architecture and advanced computational design processes with respect to the profound changes that digital technologies instigate in the way architecture is thought, designed, and built. Wodiczko is renowned for his large-scale projections on architectural facades, and monuments. |
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| Excerpt: ‘Change Over Time’ on Detention, Isolation, and Quarantine |
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| In the latest issue of Change Over Time, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation’s journal, Gareth Hoskins, senior lecturer in human geography at Aberystwyth University, and Joanne Maddern, associate professor of geography at Swansea University, situate contemporary responses to COVID-19 in a long history of xenophobia tied to public-health crises and the built environment. “Decisions about what to display and interpret at historic migration and quarantine sites highlight particular kinds of people, legitimate particular kinds of conduct, and justify particular courses of action such as inspection and incarceration,” the authors write in this excerpt. |
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| Freeman Honored for Residential Segregation Study |
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| A paper co-authored by Lance Freeman, the James W. Effron University Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, was awarded the Founder’s Prize by the Social Science History Association. “Residential Segregation at the Dawn of the Great Migration: Evidence from the 1910 and 1920 Census” uses fine-grained census data to present a more precise and complete picture of segregation in American cities in the second decade of the 20th century. |
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| Kenyatta Named 21st Century Leaders Fellow |
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| The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the ACHP Foundation have selected Matt J.M. Kenyatta, director of Justice & Belong Initiatives at Weitzman, as the first Fellow in a new program designed to promote diversity in the leadership ranks of the national historic preservation movement. Kenyatta will work with the ACHP to develop programs that address equity and justice in historic preservation. |
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| Weller on “The Innocent Landscape” (Video) |
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| In a virtual talk for the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Symposium, Richard Weller, the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and professor and chair of landscape architecture, reflects on growing up in Australia at a time when designed landscapes were rare and “the whole environment was ostensibly playground.” He explores the relationship between landscape and innocence through childhood memory, the history of the arts, the profession of landscape architecture, and today’s concept of the Anthropocene. The Symposium, titled ‘A Broader Landscape,’ was curated by architects Kerstin Thompson and Phillip Arnold. |
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| “Field Notes on Design Activism” from Fleming |
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| In the latest in a series of articles from Places Journal, which asked scholars and practitioners to share perspectives on the demands for change across the design disciplines, Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, discusses the processes of retrenchment rather than reform he sees in institutions. “Institutions tend to reproduce, not restructure themselves. They are more likely to transform their members than the other way around,” Fleming writes. |
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| ARCHITECTURE LECTURE |
| Behavioral Tectonics |
| Roland Snooks |
| Monday, November 28, 6:30pm | Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia |
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| KLEINMAN CENTER SEMINAR |
| Energy Economics and Finance Seminar |
| Jackson Dorsey |
Monday, November 28, 3:30pm | Room 306, Fisher Fine Arts Building, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
(Hybrid) |
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| KLEINMAN CENTER LECTURE |
| Carbon Removal & Solar Geoengineering Through the Lens of Justice |
| With Shuchi Talati and Mark Alan Hughes |
| Tuesday, November 29, 12:00pm | Kleinman Energy Forum, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia |
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| KLEINMAN CENTER LECTURE |
| The World Today: Oil Markets and Geopolitics of Energy |
| With Angela Pachon, Benjamin L. Schmitt, and Robert Vitalis |
Tuesday, November 29, 12:00pm | Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk, Philadelphia
(Hybrid) |
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| KLEINMAN CENTER LECTURE |
| Shaping Resource Flows: The Role of Carbon Capture in Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals with Jennifer Wilcox |
| With Jennifer Wilcox, Andrés Clarens, and Richard Middleton |
| Tuesday, November 29, 3:30pm | Online |
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| FINE ARTS LECTURE |
| SCRAAATCH |
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| Thursday, December 1, 6:00pm | Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia |
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| URBAN SPATIAL ANALYTICS LECTURE |
| Nighttime Cities: Planning, Advocacy & Data |
| Michael Fichman |
| Thursday, December 1, 6:00pm | B03, Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia |
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| Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO’s Mid Century Mission in Conflict |
| A lecture by Lynn Meskell, the Richard D. Green University Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, organized by the Norwegian Institute in Rome |
| Monday, December 5, 6:00pm | Viale Trenta Aprile 33, Rome, Italy |
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| Traits of Postdigital NeoBaroque |
| A three-day conference that includes a presentation by Andrew Saunders, associate professor of architecture, and alums Riley Studebaker (MSD-RAS’21) and Claire Moriarty (MSD-RAS’21), organized by the University of Innsbruck |
| Wednesday, December 7–Friday, December 9 | University Center Obergurgl, Gaisbergweg 5, 6456 Obergurgl, Austria |
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| Climate Change and Cultural Heritage |
| A one-day symposium that includes Frank Matero, Gonick Family Professor and chair of historic preservation, organized by the Nantucket Historical Association |
| Thursday, December 8 | Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, Nantucket, Massachusetts |
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