FORUM LECTURE: PUBLIC SPACE RE-ASSEMBLY

FORUM LECTURE: PUBLIC SPACE RE-ASSEMBLY

Categories: Lectures and Seminars, Virtual | Intended for

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Add to calendar

Location Details

Online

Contact Information

Maria Cook, 613-520-2600, maria.cook3@carleton.ca

Cost

$0

About this Event

Host Organization: Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
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Lecture
This lecture reflects on the changing nature of public space, its role in urban areas, and its ongoing value to communities. The rise in virtual interactions over the past pandemic year has counterintuitively driven demands for outdoor space as people seek an escape from screen fatigue. How, then, might we reassemble today’s public spaces—as well as ourselves within them—to better incorporate community consultation, urban ecological processes, and wider accessibility? What effective design responses exist for bringing together physical and cultural geography within the shared spaces of our cities?

Speaker
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League’s President’s Medal award.

The Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism acknowledges the support of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA) as an event sponsor.

Forum Lecture Series
The Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism is proud to announce the 2021-2022 Forum Lecture series, titled Re-Assemble. Over six lectures, our acclaimed speakers will examine the notion of re-assembly from several vantage points, framed relative to public spaces, social institutions, and places of domesticity. They will take into consideration larger demographic changes, economic influences, and climate imperatives, explaining trends across both large and small communities.

Along the way, we will hear of reconceived approaches to practice, incorporating new team structures and theoretical frameworks while utilizing novel fabrication techniques. Speakers, including Carleton alumni and recipients of the Governor General’s Awards in Architecture, will share their intersectional understandings of the challenges facing society and our opportunities for alliances in addressing them.

Looking forward, how might both ourselves and our surrounding environment re-assemble?