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News from the Weitzman School of Design // April 3, 2023 |
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FEATURED STORIES |
 | The Joys of "Liberated Yet Respectful Observation" in SeoulFor over a decade, the Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Studio Abroad program has gathered undergraduate and graduate Penn students for immersive art making around the world, from Berlin to Beijing, Istanbul to Havana. This spring, artists Gabriel Martinez and Jamie Diamond, both senior lecturers in fine arts, led an eager group of 15 students on a trip to Seoul for two weeks of research, sightseeing, contemplation, and creation. “It’s a life changing journey for young artists,” says Martinez. (Photo: Sophie Chen) | |
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 | Catherine Seavitt Nordenson to Lead Landscape Architecture DepartmentSeavitt will join the faculty as a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture in July. One of the most admired scholar-practitioners of her generation, she is a professor of landscape architecture at the City College of New York, where she directs the Master of Landscape Architecture program. “Catherine is deeply invested in confronting the ethical crises facing the design professions, from climate change and decarbonization to racial justice and public health,” said Fritz Steiner, dean and Paley Professor. | |
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OTHER NEWS |
New Podcast from Monument Lab
Find the Plot of Land, a new podcast from Monument Lab, the public art and history studio co-founded by Weitzman faculty members Ken Lum and Paul Farber, explores how land ownership and housing in the United States have been shaped by power, public memory, and privatization.
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50 Books on Cities
The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) just published the 50th volume in its series, The City in the Twenty-first Century. Co-edited by Eugénie Birch, the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education and co-director of Penn IUR, the series includes contributions from a number of Weitzman faculty, including Francesca Russello Ammon, Vincent J. Reina, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Domenic Vitiello.
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Co-Designing a Better Anthropocene
April is Earth Month at LA+, the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture based at Weitzman, and to celebrate the journal is offering free reads of six earth-related articles. The collection includes "Time in Our Hands,” by landscape ecologist Erle C. Ellis, a polemic on design’s role in producing the highly-modified ecosystems of the Anthropocene.
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Awards Go to Planning Students
Two teams of Master of City Planning students from Weitzman won Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards, given annually by the Philadelphia Center for Architecture and Design. This year’s competition asked the students to reimagine Philly’s Chinatown neighborhood “with an equitable future that continues to serve the existing community.”
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Defining Technical Lands
In their new book from De Gruyter, alum Charles Waldheim (MArch’89) and Jeffrey S. Nesbit examine the concept of “technical lands”: spaces united by their exceptional status and ranging from disaster exclusion and demilitarized zones to prison yards, industrial extraction sites, airports, and spaceports. Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, contributed essays.
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LIGHTBOX |
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The Spring 2023 Work in Progress series from the Department of Architecture includes this rendering by Aotong Yan, Vivian Li, and Yingie Liu, created for a first-year studio led by Eduardo Rega. The studio asked students to design a public commons for Philadelphia’s Chinatown North neighborhood.
via @Weitzman_arch |
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RECENT WEITZMAN EVENTS (VIDEO) |
Sara Cedar Miller | Before Central Park
Recorded March 23, 2023
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IN THE MEDIA |
Shaped and Shaping: The Cultural Influence of Ken Lum | An interview with Lum, the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts.
Border Crossings |
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Roosevelt Boulevard Subway Station Gains Support From Mayoral Candidates and Harrisburg | Jay Arzu, a PhD student in city and regional planning, discusses a proposed idea for a subway along Roosevelt Boulevard which is gaining support
NBC 10 |
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RESEARCH UPDATES |
“Reflective socio-ecological practice”
Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner traces his work in land suitability analysis and plan-making and suggests how reflection can help advance the fields of planning and landscape architecture, now available as a free download.
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“Red Design and the Green New Deal”
Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, describes the links between capitalism, design professions, and the future of the Green New Deal.
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WEITZMAN EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS |
| KLEINMAN CENTER LECTURE
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A Discussion with Climate Activists
3:00pm | Online
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| HISTORIC PRESERVATION LECTURE
José Luis Chacón | A World Cultural Heritage: The Synthesis of the Arts at Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
12:00pm | Online
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| FINE ARTS LECTURE
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)
6:00pm | Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
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| LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EVENT
Sean Burkholder and Karen Lutsky | Five Bay Landscapes Book Release Reception
6:00pm | Kleinman Energy Forum, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
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| FINE ARTS EXHIBITION
AWAY FROM CENTER
The second of the two-part Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition for the Class of 2023
Atelier Art Gallery, 1301 North 31st Street, Suite 2, Philadelphia
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| ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES EXHIBITION
Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect
Harvey & Irwin Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
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ELSEWHERE |
| The Problem with Periodization: Civil Rights in Philadelphia
With Amber Wiley, Presidential Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, organized by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
6:00pm | Online
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| Tilting on its Axis: How to Steady a Climate-Threatened World
A panel discussion that includes Mark Alan Hughes, founding faculty director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, organized by Penn Alumni
12:00pm ET | Online
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| Joshua Mosley | Visiting Artist Lecture
With Mosley, professor of fine arts, organized by Rutgers University - Camden
12:45pm | Fine Arts Building, 311 North Fifth Street, Room 110, Camden, New Jersey
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| William W. Braham | Bioclimatic Innovation: The Promise of Environmental Building Design
With Braham, professor of architecture and director of the Center for Environmental Building and Design, organized by Penn State University
12:00pm | Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space, 243 East Park Avenue, State College, Pennsylvania
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| Domenic Vitiello | The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Philadelphia
With Vitiello, associate professor of city and regional planning, organized by Penn State University
6:00pm | Online
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| Ken Lum | Time. And Again
With Lum, the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts
432 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California
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