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:653@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T190000 DTSTAMP:20240229T214226Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/lewis-mumford-lecture -the-architecture-and-urbanism-of-disability-featuring-david-gissen/ SUMMARY:Lewis Mumford Lecture: "The Architecture and Urbanism of Disability \," Featuring David Gissen DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 28\, 2024\, at 5:30 pm for o ur prestigious Lewis Mumford Lecture. This year we have the honor to welco me the renowned architect\, historian\, and theorist of disability\, acces s\, and the politics of architecture\, David Gissen\, who will be presenti ng his lecture "The Architecture and Urbanism of Disability."\nAll lecture s are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. Live captioning and ASL interpr etation will be available upon request. For access requests or questions\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu. \n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\n \;\ n\nDavid Gissen is an author and designer based in New York City. In addit ion to The Architecture of Disability\, he is the author of the books Subn ature (2009) and Manhattan Atmospheres (2013). David has held several dist inguished faculty appointments\, including Eero Saarinen Visiting Professo r of Architecture at Yale University\; Dean's Visiting Professor at Columb ia University\, GSAPP\, and University Professor at the Academy of Art in Vienna\, Austria. He is currently Professor of Architecture and Urban Hist ory at Parsons School of Design/The New School.\n\n"The Architecture and U rbanism of Disability": The pursuit of architectural “access" and urban accessibility have defined\, if not over-defined\, the politics of disable d people's engagements with the built environment. In this lecture\, drawn from Gissen's recent book “The Architecture of Disability\,” the auth or explains the conceptual underpinnings of accessible design and its limi tations. As a complement to the pursuit of access\, Gissen proposes a more comprehensive way that disabled people can reimagine their cities and the buildings within them. This latter agenda includes disability critiques o f property and development\, infrastructural management\, public space\, a nd commemoration\, as well as the possibility of an “anti-eugenic” urb anism.\n\nSuggested Reading: David Gissen\, "The Urbanization of Disabilit y\," from The Architecture of Disability (Minnesota\, 2023).\n\n \;\nA bout the Lewis Mumford Lecture:\n\nEach spring\, the Spitzer School of Arc hitecture and its Urban Design Program present the Lewis Mumford Lecture a nd seminar. Named for writer\, architecture critic\, and urbanist Lewis Mu mford\, who attended City College\, the series invites the world’s most distinguished urbanists to speak freely and publicly about the future of c ities and the social purposes of architecture. This series was initiated b y the late Michael Sorkin\, distinguished professor of architecture and di rector 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\n2005 Mike Davis\n2006 Enrique Peñalosa\n2007 Amartya Sen\n20 08 David Harvey\n2009 Paul Auster\n2011 Richard Sennett\n2012 Janette Sadi k-Khan\n2013 Marshall Berman\n2014 Theaster Gates\n2015 Rebecca Solnit\n20 22 Yasmeen Lari\n2023 Emily Badger 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:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR