Counter-mapping: Documenting Urban Spaces in Visual Poetry
In this poetry workshop, we will investigate visual forms of representing urban spaces at the intersection of poetry and cartography. Grounded in the textual/visual analysis of works from the Latin American avant-garde, concrete...
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As the planet becomes increasingly urban, cities will be expected to absorb many of the impacts of climate change. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that compact urbanization is much more environmentally sustainable than car-centric sprawl. In...
Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Our North is the South (Nuestro Norte es el Sur) is a group of architecture and urban historians working and teaching on Latin America, first convened in Quito in 2018 and with periodical meetings since. In 1935, Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García reversed the map of South America to argue for the point of view of artists working “from the south,” claiming: “Our north is the south.” Thinking with Torres-García, we study the history of architecture and cities from the point of view of the South and Latin America. This symposium builds on research produced by members of...
SPEAKER Sofia Dyak Historian, Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv
From imagining new housing models to finding resources to house people, postwars are rich in ideas and policies for accommodating people. The need for housing reveals the toll of destruction, while the search for home poignantly highlights the violence of broken relationships with place and with people. In her talk, Dr. Dyak will focus on the city of Lviv, a...
SPEAKER: VALENTINA ROZAS-KRAUSE, 2023-24 HARVARD UNIVERSITY RADCLIFFE FELLOW AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ IN CHILE
IN CONVERSATION WITH VINCENT BROWN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The talk will examine the role that memorials play in processes of symbolic and material reparation after political conflicts in Germany and Argentina.