BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:542@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T193000 DTSTAMP:20240523T153708Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2022-sciame-lect ure-series-gabriel-diaz-montemayor/ SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: Gabriel Díaz Montemayor DESCRIPTION:This lecture was held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sc iame Lecture Series\, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."\n\n \;\n\nGabriel Díaz Montemayor\, ASLA\, is an A ssistant Dean for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and an Associate Prof essor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture an d Design at the University of Arkansas. Gabriel’s studio teaching is foc used on multi-scalar and polyvalent research and service-learning projects for the Border Region between the United States and México. Gabriel keep s a part-time practice in urban design and landscape architecture as found ing partner of LABor Studio\, based in Chihuahua City\, México. Gabriel ’s research and teaching is also concentrated in the advocacy and develo pment of a landscape architecture specific to Latin American regions.\n\n" Finding and Operationalizing Common Ground in the U.S.-Mexico Border Regio n": The United States and Mexico share most of the North American continen t. While their relationship is full of asymmetric dimensions and their cor responding booms and busts\, both cannot ignore their inescapable ecology found in their shared landscapes. When planning and designing the inhabita tion of their common ground\, most of the attention is unsurprisingly focu sed on economic and political infrastructures\, while little attention is invested on socio-ecological infrastructures. Typically\, the national sca le political conversation -- or conflict -- supersedes the local and commu nity-oriented dialogues\, which are much richer\, positive\, and suggestiv e.  This is unsustainable. This presentation is a proposal to adjust and diversify the understanding of their common ground toward sustainability a nd resiliency\, from the top down and the bottom up. This is to be demonst rated through a series of professional and academic studio-based projects that recognize social\, cultural\, and economic differences\, while reveal ing shared opportunities and practices. The projects are multi-scalar and polyvalent\, ranging from the territorial to the urban to the neighborhood and the site specific. Project locations include "Ambas Nogales" (Spanish for "Both Nogaleses\," one in Arizona\, one in Sonora)\, Hermosillo\, Ciu dad Juarez\, Chihuahua City\, and the Lower Rio Grande/Bravo Delta/Valley. \n\nProfessor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson will introduce the speaker.\n\nS uggested Reading: From The Ground Up\n\n \;\n\n"Border Crossings: Arch itecture and Migration" in the Americas presents meditations on the topic of migration from nontraditional\, creative\, and interdisciplinary perspe ctives. The distinguished speakers -- architects\, landscape architects\, architecture historians\, social historians\, a philosopher\, an anthropol ogist\, and an attorney -- question conventions\, especially the conceptua lization of migration as linear. They frame migration as a multivalent pro cess\, considering the lived realities and material conditions of migratio n\, historically and in the present. Migration in the Americas is more tha n just the movement and resettlement of bodies\, numbers that cross lines and appear/disappear in different places. Migration is not merely (dis)pla cement\, it is also a metamorphosis. Migrants are human beings who are tra nsformed to the core by their movement\, and they transform not only their places of departure and arrival\, but the entire space that is filled wit h their journeys.\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public \, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium with remote option available. See https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ret urn-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\nFor remote viewing via Zoom\, please register here.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous suppor t of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Archived Video,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:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR