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:578@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T193000 DTSTAMP:20240522T203955Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2023-sciame-le cture-series-bz-zhang-christin-hu-16/ SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Bz Zhang & christin hu '16 DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2 023 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture a nd Landscape in Translation."\n\n \;\n\nBz Zhang (pictured on right) 张迪 is an architect\, artist\, organizer\, and educator from Lenapehoki ng (纽约 New York)\,  安徽 Anhui\, and 山东 Shandong\, currently ba sed in Tovaangar (洛杉矶 Los Angeles). They are a core organizer with t he Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U\, a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust\, and a licensed architect in Cal ifornia. Their design and research practice wonders aloud about representa tions of violence and the violence of representations by asking questions both using and about disciplinary tools of art and architecture. Bz holds degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and Brown Universit y.\n\nchristin hu (pictured on left) 胡潇嶙 of 广西桂林 (Guilin\, G uangxi) and 安徽合肥 (Hefei\, Anhui)\, is a designer and coordinator f rom Lenapehoking (New York\, New York). Through accessible games for colla borative design\, critical learning methods\, and facilitated workshops\, they help others build genuine relationships with one another and our shar ed environments. christin currently works as a Visiting Assistant Professo r at Pratt School of Architecture\, organizes within the Design as Protest Collective and Dark Matter U\, and supports local food justice efforts. T hey hold an MLA from Harvard GSD and BArch from The City College of New Yo rk.\n\n"Translations: wǒmen de stories\, cóng practice\, pedagogy\, dào organizing": is a series of stories offering students models of practice that embody translation in our work as designers\, organizers\, and educat ors in the architecture and landscape architecture fields. These stories t race specificities of our lived Chinese-diasporic experiences through indi vidually and collectively authored projects\, ranging from designing coope rative games to looking for Chinese rural settlements in archival fire ins urance maps to organizing with collectives. Prompted by questions about ac curacy and precision\, intent and impact\, and the limits of translation\, the lecture itself can be understood as a set of diasporic translations. Many of us from diasporas begin practicing translation early in life\, nav igating multiple verbal and body languages\, conflicting cultural values\, and even creating new languages such as Chinglish. As these practices evo lve over time and space\, the joyful coexistence of a multitude of perspec tives deepens our relationships with one another and the world. Translatin g is relating! Ultimately\, our aim is to use diasporic practices of trans lation to frame a conversation with students about future models of design practice\, pedagogy\, and organizing.\n\nSuggested Reading: Dark Matter U niversity. “The other day we started a shared doc…” In Log 54: Coaut horing\, edited by Cynthia Davidson\, Ann Lui\, Ana Miljački\, and Patric k Templeton\, 27-30. New York: Anyone Corporation\, 2022.\n\n \;\n\n"A cross the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation" begins w ith what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place\, a sea where ideas\, people\ , and artifacts move. It questions the framing of this great body of water as a barrier or a void\, concepts that are rooted in colonialism and impe rialism. Instead\, it posits the Pacific as an active stage for exchanging and translating ideas\, concepts\, materials\, and technologies about con structed environments. The designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, and acti vists featured in this series are situated along the Pacific Rim. They exa mine areas\, products\, and product histories along the Pacific Rim. They call on this positionality to offer exceptional\, transnational\, boundary -breaking\, hybrid practices and research that contribute to a shared envi ronment and a collective future.\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are free\, ope n to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Archi tecture Sciame Auditorium with a remote option available.\n\nIf you are in terested in attending via Zoom\, please register here.\n\nSee https://www .ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visito rs.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Arch itecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Scia me Construction. 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