So this post is a day late and a buck short for last night's lecture featuring Aziza Chaouni and Liat Margolis, but the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is featuring another excellent series of lectures on Thursdays this fall and winter. The theme for the series is "Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design." Recent lectures have covered such topics as the "Waters of Rome" and "Out of Water". More information about upcoming lectures is listed below in their recent press release, and can also be found at aridlands.woodbury.edu/lectures.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design
Lecture Series: 2010_2011The human need for water has ordered landscapes, given rise to culture, and shaped architecture + urban form throughout history.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design examines the role of water engineering in shaping public space and city form, by using arid and semi-arid sites in India, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the New World to explore how dryland water systems throughout history have formed and been formed by ritual, hygiene, gender, technology, governance, markets, and, perhaps above all, power.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design brings together historians, urbanists, and contemporary designers to selectively excavate global historical case studies and reveal relevance to contemporary design practice.Katherine Rinne: The Waters of Rome
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design participants include:
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Aziza Chaouni + Liat Margolis: Out of Water
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Morna Livingtson: Steps to Water
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Nan Ellin, PhD: Canalscape
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Vinayak Bharne: Urban Water Crisis/Perspectives from South Asia
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
For more information, go to: aridlands.woodbury.edu/lectures
Location:
UPDATE to the lecture series: Vinayak Bharne lecture is February 15 at 7:00pm
ReplyDeleteThe Agency of Water: Scarcity, Abundance, and Design in Dialog
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011, 7 pm
Ahmanson Main Space
Woodbury University, Burbank
Vinayak Bharne Urbanism, Infrastructure & the Urban Water Crisis: Perspectives from Asia & the American Southwest Dilip da Cunha Negotiated Landscapes: Mississippi, Bangalore, and Mumbai Vinayak Bharne, a practicing urban designer and planner, teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His work has focused on the critical conservation and reuse of indigenous infrastructures as catalysts for sustainable urban growth and development, with ongoing projects in Iran, India and the American southwest. He is a contributing author of Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region (2005), and the forthcoming Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (mid 2011).
Dilip da Cunha, an architect and planner, serves on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, New York and the University of Pennsylvania. With Anuradha Mathur, his work has focused on cultural and ecological dimensions of contentious landscapes, wet and dry. His work includes Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore's Terrain (2006); and SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009).
Hadley Arnold, co-director of the Arid Lands Institute, will moderate a discussion on water infrastructure, design strategy, and the public realm.
For more information:
ARID LANDS INSTITUTE
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91510
818. 394 3335 T
818. 767 8851 F
aridlands@woodbury.edu
www.aridlands.woodbury.edu