Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times (November 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78968 78968-20162602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Save the date for the Fall 2020 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture featuring Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times. Kimmelman's remarks, in conversation with Dean Jonathan Massey, will be followed by a public interview with Taubman College's Agora and Dimensions publications, exploring the role of journalists in issues of racial justice, social equity, health, and climate change in the context of the built environment.

Since he returned to New York from Europe in the fall of 2011, Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work focuses on urban affairs, public space, housing for the poor, infrastructure, social equality and the environment, as well as on design. A best-selling author, he has won numerous awards over the years. The magazine New York titled an article about him “The People’s Critic.” In March 2014, Mr. Kimmelman was given the Brendan Gill Prize for “insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York’s architectural environment,” “that is journalism at its finest."

From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Kimmelman was based in Berlin, covering Europe and the Middle East, having devised the “Abroad” column. While there, he reported on life under Hamas in Gaza, the crackdown on culture in Putin’s Russia, negritude in France and bullfighting in Spain, among other subjects. He was previously The Times’s longtime chief art critic — “the most acute American art critic of his generation,” according to the late Australian writer Robert Hughes.

A graduate of Yale and Harvard, adjunct professor at Columbia University and former Franke fellow at the Whitney Center for the Humanities at Yale, he has contributed regularly to The New York Review of Books.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:09:48 -0400 2020-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times
Mayor Eric Garcetti in Conversation (September 17, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85780 85780-21628993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joins Taubman College Dean Jonathan Massey in conversation on housing affordability and access. The virtual conversation is free and open to the public, and U-M students can participate as part of a one-credit course, SWK 503 Section 001.

This event is part of the annual Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions fall speaker series, which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation, with the goal of encouraging the formation of a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:29:24 -0400 2021-09-17T12:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual 2021 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions
Panel, Material Responsibility: Mollie Claypool, Dana Cupkova, and Achim Menges (September 21, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86538 86538-21634788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Material Responsibility discusses issues of contemporary material fabrication in context to social, environmental, and construction related challenges. Researchers, designers, and builders assume the mantle of responsibility to address inherited legacies in everyday practices. This event tries to unravel not only assumptions about what and how we build, but also looks to question why, to situate our motivations and impact. In moving away from practices that simply justifies the present moment, the discussion on Material Responsibility aims to identify where our responsibilities lie in the complex global systems and networks that make up our contemporary practice.

Presentations from Mollie Claypool (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), Dana Cupkova (Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture), and Achim Menges (University of Stuttgart Institute for Computational Design and Construction), will be followed by a panel discussion with Taubman College faculty.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:27:22 -0400 2021-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Achim Menges: BUGA Fibre Pavilion
Lecture: LA Más (October 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88235 88235-21651564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

LA Más co-founder Elizabeth Timme and Backyard Homes program manager Chaz Kern will share more on the firm's work.

LA Más designs and builds initiatives that promote neighborhood resilience and elevate the agency of working class communities of color. They envision a Northeast Los Angeles where communities of color have equitable access to the power and resources needed to shape their futures.

Across Los Angeles’ diverse neighborhoods, LA Más has collaborated with residents, community organizations, and local government agencies to execute thoughtful, playful, and contextually designed projects. Serving as an intermediary between community members and policymakers, LA Más’ projects have focused on elevating what already works – demonstrating that smaller, community-scale urban developments can preserve a neighborhood’s local identity. This has included working in the public realm to create safe pedestrian experiences, empowering small business owners through design, and building alternative affordable housing.

This event will be presented virtually. Following the lecture, LA Más will be joined by Taubman College faculty Sharon Haar and Ellie Abrons for a conversation around affordable housing.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:19:19 -0400 2021-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion LA Mas ADU