BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//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:20261008T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T193000 DTSTAMP:20260820T192513Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/colloquium-why-care-m atters/ SUMMARY:Colloquium: Why Care Matters DESCRIPTION:Registration is forthcoming. \nThis in-person colloquium is pa rt of the exhibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Ce ntre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Publ ic Space\, "Design Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space".\nWhat infrast ructures are in place to sustain care? How can cities and institutions bet ter support those who give and receive it? How might care reshape our unde rstanding of independence and interdependence? What would it mean to desig n with care at the center? How might prioritizing care transform our envir onments\, our policies\, and our collective futures?\nIntroduction: Prof. Marina Correia\, Architect\, historian\, adjunct assistant professor\, Spi tzer School of Architecture\nModerator: Dr. Marta Gutman\, Dean and Profe ssor\, 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\, Tecnológi co de Monterrey\, Mexico\nProf. Sasha Topolnytska\, Architect\, Adjunct L ecturer\, Spitzer School of Architecture\nAnnya Ramirez-Jimenez\, AIA\, Pa rtner\, Marvel Designs\n\nProf. Marina Correia (she/her) is a practicing a rchitect and professor of design\, history\, and theory. She established h er practice – Atelier of Architecture and Urban Design - in 2013\, which has been dedicated to public architecture\, exhibition design\, interior design and non-profit partnerships in the United States\, Brazil\, and Eur ope. She holds an architecture degree from The City University of New York (2006)\, a Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013) and a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo (2018). She currently teaches at Barnard Coll ege – Columbia University and The City College of New York.\n\nSuggested Reading: Correia\, Marina. “The Right to Imagine: Michael Sorkin’s Vi sual Argument.” Drawing Matter\, June 8\, 2026.\n\nDr. Marta Gutman (she /her) is an architectural and urban historian\, is dean of the Spitzer Sch ool of Architecture at the City College of New York | CUNY\, the city’s premier public school of architecture. Expert in the history of public arc hitecture for children and in repurposing architecture as a strategy for c ity-building\, she studies ordinary places in cities. Through this work\, she tackles power and culture in all walks of life\, emphasizes the activi sm of women especially on behalf of children\, and ties local stories to n ational and international histories. Gutman’s commitment to social justi ce has been manifest since she started her career as an architect designin g housing for the New York City Housing Authority and shelters for battere d women\, abused children\, and homeless New Yorkers. Gutman’s A City fo r Children: Women\, Architecture\, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oaklan d won the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American) in urban hi story (2015) and the Spiro Kostof Book Award (2017). A Distinguished CUNY Research Fellow in 2018\, Gutman is the immediate past president of the So ciety for American City and Regional Planning History\, a founding coedito r of PLATFORM\, and a former coeditor of Buildings &\; Landscapes: Jour nal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Her chapter “Intermediate Scho ol 201: Race\, Space\, and Modern Architecture in Harlem\,” in Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community\, eds. Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell (Columbia\, 2019)\, received the Ca therine W. Bishir Prize in 2021. She’s currently writing Just Space: Mod ern Architecture\, Public Schools\, and Racial Inequality in New York City (University of Texas Press).\n\nDr. Zaida Muxi (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and has been a Distinguished Professor at TEC de Monterrey ’s School of Architecture\, Art and Design since October 2023\, where sh e coordinates the certificate program “Architecture\, City\, and Gender ” Professor in the Department of Urban Planning\, Land Use Planning\, an d Landscape at the Barcelona School of Architecture. From 2015 to 2019\, s he served as Director of Urban Planning\, Housing\, Environment\, Urban Ec ology\, and Public Space for the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet\, Catalo nia. She is a specialist in urban planning\, architecture\, and gender. He r publications include Beyond the Threshold and published (dpr-barcelona\, 2021).\n\nSuggested Reading: Muxí Martínez\, Zaida. Beyond the Threshol d: Women\, Houses\, and Cities. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona\, 2021.\n\nProf.  Sasha Topolnytska (she/her) is an architectural designer\, educator\, an d founder of FARMMM Studio\, an architecture and design practice working a cross architecture\, interior design\, installations\, objects\, and resea rch. Her work is interested in structures and relationships of support\, a nd in how architecture participates in everyday life across different bodi es\, communities\, and scales. Her individual and collaborative work has r eceived an NYCxDESIGN Award and support from the Architectural League of N ew York\, the Center for Architecture\, NYSCA\, and the Design Trust for P ublic Space. She teaches architecture and interior design courses at the S pitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York and Parsons Scho ol of Design.\n\nSuggested Reading: Tronto\, Joan C. “Caring Architectur e.” In Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet\, ed ited by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny\, 26–32. Cambridge\, MA: MIT Press \, 2019.\n\nAll colloquia are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For liv e captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ss adean@ccny.cuny.edu. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR