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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T140000
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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/the-visual-and-the-po
 litical-the-michael-sorkin-colloquium-2025/
SUMMARY:The Visual and the Political: The Michael Sorkin Lectureship Colloq
 uium 2025
DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will bring together three distinguished profess
 ionals -- Felipe Correa\, Mariana Mogilevich\, and Paola Viganò -- to exp
 lore the relationship between the visual and political domains of urban de
 sign. It is convened to celebrate the urban design community at the Spitze
 r School of Architecture and further the legacy of the late Michael Sorkin
  (1948-2020)\, former Distinguished Professor of Architecture and director
  of the Graduate Program in Urban Design.\n\nThis event is free and open t
 o the public\, with registration required.\n\n\n\n“The Visual and the Po
 litical” is an expansion on theoretical and practical agendas that emerg
 ed from the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lectureship\, 
 which has been held by Marina Correia in 2025.\n\nDrawings can be understo
 od as visual arguments\, both fictional and political modes of communicati
 on that support the creation of alternative realities. Sorkin’s criticis
 m was never divorced from a tangible imaginative process. The colloquium w
 ill speculate on tactics of approximation between drawing -- understood as
  the aesthetic and visual domains of architecture -- and urban advocacy or
  the assembling of political and cultural expression with ethical agendas 
 that defend publicness and shared spatialities.\n\nWe wish to thank the do
 nors to the Sorkin Legacy Fund and the Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguish
 ed Lecturer Fund for helping us to further the legacy of Michael Sorkin.\n
 \nFollowing this event\, prospective students are invited to visit the Urb
 an Design studio. Separate registration is required.\n\nSpeakers\n\nFelipe
  Correa is Founder and Managing Partner of Somatic Collaborative\, a New Y
 ork–based design practice working across the Americas\, Asia\, and Europ
 e. His work focuses on the transformation of cities through projects at th
 e intersection of design\, policy\, and economic development. He is the au
 thor of Beyond the City\, Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography\, A 
 Line in the Andes\, and São Paulo: A Graphic Biography\, with a forthcomi
 ng book titled Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary. Formerly
  Chair of Architecture at the University of Virginia\, Correa is currently
  Director of the Urban Prosperity Institute in New York City.\n\nMariana M
 ogilevich is a writer and editor\, and sometimes a curator and educator. S
 he has been researching and producing public projects on the makings and m
 eanings of urban environments for almost twenty years. As editor-in-chief 
 of Urban Omnibus\, a publication of the Architectural League of New York\,
  she has created and edited a special series interrogating physical infras
 tructures of criminal justice and spatial practices of remediation in New 
 York City\, and commissioned hundreds of editorial features from artists\,
  designers\, scholars\, and writers. Mariana is the author of The Inventio
 n of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (Universi
 ty of Minnesota Press).\n\nPaola Viganò architect and urbanist\, is Full 
 Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL\, where she directs
  the Habitat Research Center and the Lab-U and at IUAV Venice. She receive
 d the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in 2013\, the title of Doctor Honoris Ca
 usa by the UCLouvain in 2016 in the frame of “Utopia for our Time\,” t
 he Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017\, and the Golden medal t
 o the career of Milano Triennale in 2018. Together with Bernardo Secchi\, 
 she founded Studio (1990-2014) working on numerous projects and visions in
  Europe. Since 2015\, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and socia
 l transition of cities\, landscapes\, and territories designing urban and 
 territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe.\n\nMarina Corr
 eia is a practicing architect and professor of design\, history\, and theo
 ry. She holds an architecture degree from City College of New York\, a Mas
 ter in Architecture from Harvard GSD\, and a PhD in History of Architectur
 e and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo. She established her pract
 ice -- Atelier of Architecture and Urban Design -- in 2013\, which has bee
 n dedicated to public architecture\, exhibition design\, interior design\,
  and non-profit partnerships in the United States\, Brazil\, and Europe. S
 he has taught at CCNY\, Columbia University\, the Federal University of Ri
 o de Janeiro\, Harvard GSD\, RISD\, Pratt Institute\, and Cal Poly.\n\nFor
  live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please contac
 t ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.
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