For the first event of our 2017 panel season "Displacements" the AIA-NY Global Dialogues Committee explores how designers are responding to the global refugee crisis through analysis, advocacy, documentation, and design.
When: Thursday, February 23rd - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Center for Architecture - AIANY, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
What: Displacements_People: Designing for the Global Refugee Crisis
This current moment of unprecedented migration--the flows of people displaced by conflict, economic need, and environmental degradation--urgently demands a response from architects, planners, artists, and policy makers. At a time when many institutions are confronting how to, or sadly, whether to confront the issues of global population displacement, the design community continues to engage with this issue through analysis, advocacy, documentation and design.
Who:
Speakers:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff: Former Deputy High Commissioner, Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Sean Anderson: Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Organizer of "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" (2016)
Alfredo Brillembourg: Founder and Partner, Urban-Think Tank
Eliza Montgomery: Designer, Ennead + Ennead Lab, "Rethinking Refugee Communities"
Robert Pietrusko: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Geospatial Representation + Critical Cartography, Collaborator on EXIT
Moderator:
Farzana Gandhi: Chair, Department of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology
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Displacements People: Designing for the Global Refugee CrisisType
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