BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:808@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T173000 DTSTAMP:20260930T133439Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/colloquium-why-care-m atters/ SUMMARY:Colloquium: Why Care Matters DESCRIPTION:*Updated start time: 4 PM*\nPlease RSVP here.\nThis in-person c olloquium is part of the exhibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Public Space\, "Design Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space" .\nWhat infrastructures are in place to sustain care? How can cities and i nstitutions better support those who give and receive it? How might care r eshape our understanding of independence and interdependence? What would i t mean to design with care at the center? How might prioritizing care tran sform our environments\, our policies\, and our collective futures?\nIntro duction: Dr. Marina Correia\, Architect\, historian\, adjunct assistant pr ofessor\, Spitzer School of Architecture\nModerator: Dr. Marta Gutman\, D ean and Professor\, Spitzer School of Architecture\nPanelists (15-minute presentations):\nDr. Zaida Muxi\, Architect\, City Planner\, Distinguished Professor in Architecture for the School of Architecture\, Art and Design \, Tecnológico de Monterrey\, Mexico\nProf. Sasha Topolnytska\, Architec t\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Spitzer School of Architecture\nAnnya Ramirez-Jimen ez\, AIA\, Partner\, Marvel Designs\n\n\nPanelists (left to right) Zaida M uxi\, Sasha Topolnytska\, Annya Ramirez-Jimenez\n\nDr. Marina Correia (she /her) is a practicing architect and professor of design\, history\, and th eory. She established her practice – Atelier of Architecture and Urban D esign - in 2013\, which has been dedicated to public architecture\, exhibi tion design\, interior design and non-profit partnerships in the United St ates\, Brazil\, and Europe. She holds an architecture degree from The City University of New York (2006)\, a Master in Architecture from Harvard Uni versity Graduate School of Design (2013) and a Ph.D. in History of Archite cture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo (2018). She currently teaches at Barnard College – Columbia University and The City College of New York.\n\nSuggested Reading: Correia\, Marina. “The Right to Imagine : Michael Sorkin’s Visual Argument.” Drawing Matter\, June 8\, 2026.\n \nDr. Marta Gutman (she/her) is an architectural and urban historian\, is dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York | CUNY\, the city’s premier public school of architecture. Expert in th e history of public architecture for children and in repurposing architect ure as a strategy for city-building\, she studies ordinary places in citie s. Through this work\, she tackles power and culture in all walks of life\ , emphasizes the activism of women especially on behalf of children\, and ties local stories to national and international histories. Gutman’s com mitment to social justice has been manifest since she started her career a s an architect designing housing for the New York City Housing Authority a nd shelters for battered women\, abused children\, and homeless New Yorker s. Gutman’s A City for Children: Women\, Architecture\, and the Charitab le Landscapes of Oakland won the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (Nort h American) in urban history (2015) and the Spiro Kostof Book Award (2017) . A Distinguished CUNY Research Fellow in 2018\, Gutman is the immediate p ast president of the Society for American City and Regional Planning Histo ry\, a founding coeditor of PLATFORM\, and a former coeditor of Buildings &\; Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Her chapt er “Intermediate School 201: Race\, Space\, and Modern Architecture in H arlem\,” in Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community\, eds. Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell (Columbia\, 2019)\, received the Catherine W. Bishir Prize in 2021. She’s currently writing Just Space: Modern Architecture\, Public Schools\, and Racial Ineq uality in New York City (University of Texas Press).\n\nDr. Zaida Muxi (sh e/her) holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and has been a Distinguished Professo r at TEC de Monterrey’s School of Architecture\, Art and Design since Oc tober 2023\, where she coordinates the certificate program “Architecture \, City\, and Gender” Professor in the Department of Urban Planning\, La nd Use Planning\, and Landscape at the Barcelona School of Architecture. F rom 2015 to 2019\, she served as Director of Urban Planning\, Housing\, En vironment\, Urban Ecology\, and Public Space for the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet\, Catalonia. She is a specialist in urban planning\, architect ure\, and gender. Her publications include Beyond the Threshold and publis hed (dpr-barcelona\, 2021).\n\nSuggested Reading: Muxí Martínez\, Zaida. Beyond the Threshold: Women\, Houses\, and Cities. Barcelona: dpr-barcelo na\, 2021.\n\nProf. Sasha Topolnytska (she/her) is an architectural desig ner\, educator\, and founder of FARMMM Studio\, an architecture and design practice working across architecture\, interior design\, installations\, objects\, and research. Her work is interested in structures and relations hips of support\, and in how architecture participates in everyday life ac ross different bodies\, communities\, and scales. Her individual and colla borative work has received an NYCxDESIGN Award and support from the Archit ectural League of New York\, the Center for Architecture\, NYSCA\, and the Design Trust for Public Space. She teaches architecture and interior desi gn courses at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New Yo rk and Parsons School of Design.\n\nSuggested Reading: Tronto\, Joan C. “Caring Architecture.” In Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet\, edited by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny\, 26–32. Camb ridge\, MA: MIT Press\, 2019.\n\nAnnya Ramirez-Jimenez (she/her) is an Arc hitect and Partner at MARVEL\, with offices in New York City\, San Juan\, PR\, Richmond\, VA &\; Barcelona. She is a passionate designer that adv ocates for equity and focuses on building spaces that create nurturing env ironments for users to thrive. Primarily leading civic projects\, Annya se eks to impact the design environment beyond traditional approaches and uti lize community engagement as a means to achieve design equity. She has rec ently completed a new affordable neighborhood in Far Rockaway and current projects include various civic projects in the Bronx\, from the renovation of the Orchard Beach Pavilion\, a new Animal Care Facility\, The Bronx Mu seum expansion &\; the Walter Gladwin Rec. Center for NYC Parks. Annya received a Bachelor of Architecture in Environmental Design from the Unive rsity of Puerto Rico and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University . She is an active leader in the community\, serving on boards of The Sato Project &\; The Clemente Center\, a cultural organization that cultiva tes and promotes the preservation of Puerto Rican and Latinx arts &\; c ulture in New York City. She is also a Co-founder of Latinos in Design.\n\ nSuggested Reading: Fuller Marvel\, Lucilla. Listen to What They Say: Plan ning and Community Development in Puerto Rico. San Juan: La Editorial\, Un iversidad de Puerto Rico\, 2008.\n\nAll colloquia are free\, open to the p ublic\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sc iame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requ ests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu. 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