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:677@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T190000 DTSTAMP:20240827T131839Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2024-sciame-lect ure-series-lawrence-vale/ SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: Lawrence Vale DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 2024 Sci ame Lecture Series\, titled "Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisite d."\n\nLawrence Vale is Associate Dean of the MIT School of Architecture a nd Planning\, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning\, director of MI T’s Resilient Cities Housing Initiative\, and co-director of the RWJF-sp onsored Policies for Action research hub linking housing\, health and raci al justice. Larry is the author or editor of thirteen books and more than sixty articles examining urban design\, affordable housing and city planni ng\, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing histo ry\, design\, policy\, and politics. His latest book is The Equitably Resi lient City (MIT Press\, 2024)\, co-authored with Zachary Lamb. At MIT\, La rry has won the Institute’s highest awards for teaching and for graduate student advising.\n\n"The Persistent Design-Politics of Race in American Public Housing": Subsidized housing for low-income residents is more than a matter of laws and policies\; it entails controlling and redistributing space. Decisions about public housing reveal the confluence of ideological assumptions about social structure and environmental determinist beliefs about spatial order in ways that can convey either welcome or exclusion. T his talk explores that socio-spatial convergence through the lens of ‘de sign-politics\,’ applying this to the racialized development and redevel opment of public housing in the United States. City leaders across the US constructed a great deal of the nation’s public housing in the 1930s\, 1 940s and 1950s on a racially-segregated basis\, rewarding and reinforcing an ideological ideal of the small white nuclear family – both explicitly through tenant selection criteria and implicitly through the sizing and d esign of apartments. Such ideological preferences – while largely unstat ed – continue to infuse 21st Century efforts by urban public housing aut horities when they redevelop such projects. Once again\, their design deci sions combine space and race\, linking the presumed panacea of ‘mixed-in come’ redevelopment projects to an ongoing racial politics aimed at rest oring mainstream ideological norms while resisting expressions of non-whit e identities. More optimistically\, a few redevelopment efforts have chall enged this with more progressive forms of poverty governance\, emphasizing not-for-profit organizations and valuing resident voices.\n\n"Design Matt ers: The Housing Question Revisited" examines innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerfu l arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolu tionary text\, The Housing Question\, Engels argued that the dearth of ade quate shelter was an inevitable consequence of the Industrial Revolution. As a result of working-class exploitation endemic to capitalist modernity\ , the housing crisis was resolvable only by a revolutionary reconstruction of workers’ power that would result in the collective ownership of land and the means of production. “Design Matters” inverts Engels’s argu ment\, putting design\, architecture\, and planning first. It expands his geographic\, cultural\, and temporal frame to include cities outside of We stern Europe\, and it probes places damaged by the devastating consequence s of war\, the climate emergency\, and other catastrophes. A bevy of on-th e-ground examples\, conceived at multiple scales and aimed at reconstructi on\, are changing policy\, politics\, practice\, and design. In the face o f extraordinary challenges\, architects\, planners\, and providers are col laborating to produce humane affordable solutions to the housing crisis\, and suggesting that architecture is needed to provoke political change.\n\ nSuggested reading: Vale\, L. (2022). The Persistent Design-Politics of Ra ce: Power and ideology in American public housing redevelopment. In The Ro utledge Handbook of Architecture\, Urban Space and Politics\, Volume I (pp . 267-284).\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in th e Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For l ive captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spit zer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Special Events 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:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR