In the wake of the 2008 explosion of the current economic crisis, more and more people are actively fighting to restore what they’ve lost. Not since the ‘60s have so many people across the globe taken to the streets to demand a more just and democratic society, access to housing, health care, education, food, jobs, a clean and safe environment and lives free from police violence. Most of these uprisings are rooted in the urban landscape. Many of their demands imply a major transformation in the way our cities work. During this amazing moment of crisis and mobilization, it’s important that we ask ourselves: What kind of city do we want to see?

On November 30th and December 1st, the CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Right to the City Coalition, The Brecht Forum, Growing Roots, and the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons The New School for Design is co-hosted “Urban Uprising” a two-day conference that brought together architects, activists, urban designers and planners from around the country to re-imagine the city for the next hundred years.

The conference focused on generating ideas that radically re-think what a city means, and how it can work to better serve its population.

LIVE STREAM VIDEOS

Nov. 30. Urban Uprising
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRoK4qxrmg]

In History, In Process, In the Future
at the CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium,
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Organized by the Center for Place, Culture & Politics

Dec 1. Re-Imagining the City
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDo8_wUjX8]

Transforming Demands, Demanding Creativity

at the New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 Organized by the Brecht Forum & the Right to the City Alliance Hosted by the New School Urban Ecologies Program