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:700@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000 DTSTAMP:20250127T185209Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/lewis-mumford-lecture -rethinking-livability-featuring-aimi-hamraie/ SUMMARY:Lewis Mumford Lecture: "Rethinking Livability\," Featuring Aimi Ham raie DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 13\, 2025\, at 5:30 pm for o ur prestigious Lewis Mumford Lecture. This year\, we have the honor to wel come the renowned designer\, researcher\, and disability justice organizer \, Aimi Hamraie\, who will be presenting their lecture "Rethinking Livabil ity."\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernar d and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. Live captioni ng and ASL interpretation will be available upon request. For access reque sts or questions\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu. \n\n \;\n\nA imi Hamraie (they/them) is associate professor of Medicine\, Health\, & \; Society at Vanderbilt University\, and director of the Critical Design Lab\, an international collaborative of disabled designers\, artists\, and researchers. Hamraie’s scholarship focuses on design\, architecture\, a nd urbanism\, critical disability studies\, and science and technology stu dies. They are the author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Pol itics of Disability and the forthcoming book\, Enlivened City. Hamraie is also presidential appointee to the U.S. Access Board and a 2022 United Sta tes Artists Fellow in Media.\n\n"Rethinking Livability": Architects and ur banists often invoke “livability” in the pursuit of more healthy\, sus tainable\, and economically robust cities. Related to these goals are the imperatives of urban “activation\,” mobility\, and beautification in s haping the “urban good life.” But underlying these commonsense goals a re normative ideas of life itself\, particularly what types of embodiment\ , movement\, and activity the built environment ought to promote. Drawn fr om Hamraie’s forthcoming book\, Enlivened City\, this lecture traces ide ologies of livability from twentieth-century urban renewal efforts through contemporary New Urbanism\, with a specific focus on what Hamraie terms “urban ableism\,” an infrastructural preference for ablebodiedness tha t pervades the imperatives of health\, sustainability\, and economy. As al ternatives\, Hamraie draws on urban speculative fiction and the work of di sabled artists and designers to imagine alterlivability\, or conceptions o f the urban good life grounded in radical forms of accessibility\, hospita lity\, and interdependence.\n\nSuggested Reading: Hamraie\, Aimi. "Crip Mo bility Justice: Ableism and Active Transportation Debates." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2021).\n\n \;\nAbout the Lewis Mumford Lecture:\n\nEach spring\, the Spitzer School of Architecture and its Urban Design Program present the Lewis Mumford Lecture and seminar. Na med for writer\, architecture critic\, and urbanist Lewis Mumford\, who at tended City College\, the series invites the world’s most distinguished urbanists to speak freely and publicly about the future of cities and the social purposes of architecture. This series was initiated by the late Mic hael Sorkin\, distinguished professor of architecture and director of the Urban Design Program at the Spitzer School\, and curated by him for eleven years.\n\n \;\nPrevious Lewis Mumford Lecturers:\n2004 Jane Jacobs\n2 005 Mike Davis\n2006 Enrique Peñalosa\n2007 Amartya Sen\n2008 David Harve y\n2009 Paul Auster\n2011 Richard Sennett\n2012 Janette Sadik-Khan\n2013 M arshall Berman\n2014 Theaster Gates\n2015 Rebecca Solnit\n2022 Yasmeen Lar i\n2023 Emily Badger\n2024 David Gissen CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Mumford 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:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR