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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T173000
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SUMMARY:Spring 2025 Sciame Lecture Series: Sara Zewde
DESCRIPTION:This in-person lecture is part of the Spring 2025 Sciame Lectur
 e Series\, "Still Making Space for Gender."\n\nSara Zewde (she/her) is the
  founding principal of Studio Zewde\, a design firm practicing landscape a
 rchitecture\, urbanism\, and public art. Named to Time Magazine’s TIME 1
 00 Next\, Architectural Digest's AD100\, and *Wallpaper’s 300 People Sha
 ping Creative America\, her practice is celebrated for its design methods 
 that sync culture\, ecology\, and craft. In parallel to her design practic
 e\, Sara serves as Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard University G
 raduate School of Design and is currently writing a book on her research r
 etracing Frederick Law Olmsted's journeys through the Slave South. Sara ho
 lds a master’s in landscape architecture from the Harvard University Gra
 duate School of Design\, a master’s in city planning from MIT\, and a BA
  in sociology and statistics from Boston University.\n\n"The Aesthetics of
  Being": In the context of clarified social and political tensions\, a cha
 nging climate\, and rapid urban development\, bell hooks' notion of "The A
 esthetics of Being" can offer creative departures for contemporary design 
 practice today. Sara Zewde will share the recent design work of Studio Zew
 de across a range of geographies given hooks’ framework.\n\nSuggested Re
 ading: hooks\, bell. An Aesthetic of Blackness - Strange and Oppositional\
 n\n"Still Making Space for Gender" centers women and LGBTQIA+ folk in the
  built environment. While the discourse framing gender morphs and gender i
 dentities broaden and become more intersectional\, the predicament remains
  the same. Women and LGBTQIA+folk continue to struggle against exploitatio
 n and fight for equal rights and equity opportunities in the United States
 \, with this situation troubling unrelenting claims of exceptionalism at h
 ome and abroad. Although gender politics are ever present\, achievements a
 re hard-won and sometimes rolled back in the face of misogyny\, homophobia
 \, transphobia\, and other ingrained expressions of exclusion. Buildings\,
  cities\, and landscapes are not only where battles over gender unfurl\, b
 ut these spaces also foster identities and incite change. In this lecture 
 series\, trailblazing women and LGBTQIA + design practitioners\, scholars\
 , and activists—working in architecture\, landscape architecture\, and u
 rban design—insist that gender must remain in sharp focus if we are to s
 hape equitable and just built environments.\n\nAll lectures are free\, ope
 n to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Archi
 tecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or a
 ccess requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture ser
 ies is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous sup
 port 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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