Book Launches at the Graham Foundation in Chicago (5:30 pm on November 21, 2024) and the Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City (12 pm on January 26, 2025).
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Impressions from the collective housing summit. To view all recordings, visit UIC’s School of Architecture YouTube channel.
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“At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing,” convened at UIC Architecture in Chicago, Thursday, October 19 – Friday, October 20, 2023. This 2-day summit gathered speakers from around the world, local stakeholders and activists, as well as city officials who have radically rethought established norms of living, models of homeownership, and the formal, programmatic, material, and legal parameters of housing. Our ambition was to generate new knowledge that can confront the current struggle for affordability and speak to the potential of collective housing as a productive challenge for architecture.
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“From House to Housing and from Old Infrastructure to Smart Living,” lecture and round table discussion at the Smart Cities Symposium, Casablanca, Morocco, June 8, 2023.
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“Collective Bargaining for Collective Housing: Hilberseimer, Goldberg, and the Labor Union’s Struggle Towards New Typologies of Living,” lecture at ACSA 111th Annual Meeting, In Commons, March 31, 2023, 10:30-12pm.
Talk and round table to discuss the themed issue of The Plan Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 2022 on “The Right to Housing,” at ACSA Annual Meeting in St. Louis, March 31, 2023, 4-5:30pm.
Innovation Grant from the Humanities Institute at UIC awarded for the research and conference “At Home with the Collective,” 2023.
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“City Beyond Form,” lecture for a Festschrift in honor of Prof. David Leatherbarrow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 20, 2022.
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Roundtable discussion on “Public Space and Collectivity” at the Urbanism Beyond Corona Symposium hosted by the Urban Works Agency at the California Center of Art, Nov. 16, 9am (PST).
Moderating panel at the Entangled Urbanism symposium at Northwestern University, Evanston, May 17-18, 2018.
Remarks and moderating panel at The Logistical City symposium organized by Clare Lyster and hosted by the UIC Institute of Humanities, February 7, 2017, 9am-5:30pm.
Conference “A City to Speculate?” Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th floor, 4-6 PM, November 22, 2014.
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International conference on the state of visionary urbanism, in collaboration with and hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 10am-6pm, September 22, 2012 (over 200 attendees, 3 panels, 15 speakers, 3 moderators). Event is featured in full length at Radio WBEZ-NPR.
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“Informal Cities,” symposium in collaboration with and hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, October 24, 2010.
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Panel chair at the ACSA West Central Fall Conference Flip your Field, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 21-23, 2010.
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“Chicago in the World” session at the Annual SAH Meeting, co-chaired with Jonathan Mekinda Chicago, April 22, 2010 (speakers included Penelope Dean, John Harwood, Igor Marjanovic, and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury).