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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2024-sciame-lect
 ure-series-sabine-malebranche/
SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: Sabine Malebranche
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\nSabine Malebranche is a Haitian architect\, urban planner\, and pro
 fessor. She studied architecture at Faculté des Sciences (Haiti\, 1980) a
 nd holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University (U
 SA\, 1984)\, as a Fulbright scholar. She has taught for 25 years urban pla
 nning in Haiti. As a national expert in urbanism\, she has produced master
  plans for medium-sized towns commissioned by offices of the Haitian State
  including mayoral offices. She has developed design of urban landscapes t
 hrough community planning. Currently\, she is leading research on cultural
  resilience to promote lakou system in public policies for sustainable urb
 an planning.\n\n"Cultural + Urban Landscapes: Designing for Local Communit
 ies in Haiti": Haiti is characterized by environmental\, economic and soci
 al vulnerability. The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 ranks Haiti among the
  three most vulnerable countries in the world between 2000 and 2019\, afte
 r Puerto Rico and Myanmar. In the recurring history of natural disasters\,
  the January 12\, 2010\, earthquake in Port-au-Prince remains a landmark e
 vent in Haitians’ collective memory. This event prompted the Haitian gov
 ernment to implement post-disaster plans\, as well as new urban planning a
 nd construction standards. This proposal highlights good participatory pra
 ctices of community planning and design of inclusive local development in 
 the island of Ile à Vache and the Chardonnières city in Haiti's southern
  peninsula. Anticipatory urban planning tools in response to the risks\, s
 uch as legal urbanism plans (PAEEV) have made it possible to promote local
  development\, control urban growth\, and improve the living environment o
 f Haitian communities. A paradigm shift is needed to address the issue of 
 urban planning. New urbanism must integrate cultural components\, which ar
 e tools to control vulnerability. We must provide planning perspectives fo
 r sustainable\, resilient spaces and design better community living spaces
 . Ile-à - Vache and Chardonnières\, local development plan is conceived 
 with communities and life experiences linked to cultural and ancestral her
 itage.\n\n"Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited" examines innova
 tive solutions to the global housing crisis. It situates our contemporary 
 dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s an
 d 1880s. In his revolutionary text\, The Housing Question\, Engels argued 
 that the dearth of adequate shelter was an inevitable consequence of the I
 ndustrial Revolution. As a result of working-class exploitation endemic to
  capitalist modernity\, the housing crisis was resolvable only by a revolu
 tionary reconstruction of workers’ power that would result in the collec
 tive ownership of land and the means of production. “Design Matters” i
 nverts Engels’s argument\, putting design\, architecture\, and planning 
 first. It expands his geographic\, cultural\, and temporal frame to includ
 e cities outside of Western Europe\, and it probes places damaged by the d
 evastating consequences of war\, the climate emergency\, and other catastr
 ophes. A bevy of on-the-ground examples\, conceived at multiple scales and
  aimed at reconstruction\, are changing policy\, politics\, practice\, and
  design. In the face of extraordinary challenges\, architects\, planners\,
  and providers are collaborating to produce humane affordable solutions to
  the housing crisis\, and suggesting that architecture is needed to provok
 e political change.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and he
 ld in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditoriu
 m. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please 
 contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by 
 the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’
 74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\
 , 10031\, United States
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