SEEKING ALTERNATIVE URBANITIES
Join us for a day of discussions and celebrations of the work of the 2021 graduating cohort of MA Theories of Urban Practice and MS Design and Urban Ecologies programs!
MAY 3, 9AM-4PM

Register in advance for this event:
Zoom Link: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-GgrjkiHdwhsaHnibFmR0E1YcLfex0e

See 2021 Thesis Book here.

[9:00-9:15am]
Introduction to Thesis Works/Conversations
Gabriela Rendón, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development
Miodrag Mitrašinovic, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture

[9:15-10:50am]
SESSION 1: SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS//NOVEL ALIGNMENTS
Reframing urban systems through critical civic practices: This panel will discuss emerging practices within the realm of justice and care to generate community control and ownership towards self-determination.
Introduction by Gabriela Rendón
PRESENTATIONS
Re-Site-Ing Reparations: Locating Harm + Capacitating Repair in Evanston, Illinois, by Jason Brown
Women Intermediaries Occupying Space Production Networks of Knowledge and
Care, by Jacqueline Castañeda
Regenerative Growth: Sowing a Community Embedded Food Economy in East New York, by Ashley Lehrer
Discussion and Q&A moderated by William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies

10 min/ Coffee Break

[11:00-12:35pm]
SESSION 2: EMERGENT PRACTICES—TOWARDS SPATIALIZED JUSTICE
Facing climate, capital, and COVID: In response to concurrent crises, this panel reflects and expands upon existing and emerging strategies for equitable negotiation of power and space.
Introduction by Gabriela Rendón
PRESENTATIONS
The Next Worldmaking: Building Within+Beyond Mutual Aid Towards ‘Liverated Life Ways,’ by Daniela Castillo
Atolling Sovereignty: Reframing the Climate Crises through Counter-Cartographies of Lolelaplap (Marshall Islands), by Daniel Chu
Grounding the Data: A Proposal Grassroots Data Practices in San Antonio, by Emily Bowe
Discussion and Q&A moderated by Miguel Robles-Duran, Associate Professor of Urbanism

25 min/ Lunch Break

[1:00-2:05pm]
SESSION 3: TOWARDS CONNECTIVE SPACE-TIMES
This panel will discuss relations of power, the ways they are sustained by the design and organization of time and space, and the tools and processes used to achieve it.
Introduction by Miodrag Mitrašinovic
PRESENTATIONS
Towards Urban Anonymity: A Spatial Approach to Reclaiming Sociability in a Hyper-Surveilled City, by Dalia Amellal
The Clock is a Faucet: Against the Fetishization of Clock-Time, by Vincent Perez
Discussion and Q&A moderated by Jilly Traganou, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture

10 min/ Coffee Break

[2:15-3:55pm]
SESSION 4: SPATIALIZING JUSTICE
This panel will discuss urban systems and governmentalities that affect both equity and access in contemporary education, housing and queer urban struggles.
Introduction by Miodrag Mitrašinovic
PRESENTATIONS
Politicizing the Housing Question in the Neoliberal City: Learning from New York City, by Sara Devic
Is Diversity Enough? A Dialectical Study of School Segregation and the Production of Space in a Diverse Neighborhood, by Jorge Cabanillas
Homeokin in Practice: Building Queer Futurity, by Blake Roberts
Discussion and Q&A moderated by Adam Lubinsky, Professor of Urban Planning