[Held on the last Tuesday of each month, RAPID RESPONSE is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have transpired over the past thirty days.]
Tuesday, 1/27, 6:30 pm: RAPID RESPONSE: ADDRESSING THE ADDRESS
President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will initiate... Read more
[Held on the last Tuesday of each month, RAPID RESPONSE is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have transpired over the past thirty days.]
Tuesday, 1/27, 6:30 pm: RAPID RESPONSE: ADDRESSING THE ADDRESS
President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will initiate a new era, many believe, in US governance on domestic issues and leadership in global concerns. But how will this administration’s new agenda address the world that architects and planners contend with and imagine? What do Obama’s inaugural statements imply for urban issues? Designer and historian MABEL O. WILSON will lead this conversation—addressing the address—with cultural critic ANDREW ROSS, architect REINHOLD MARTIN and political scientist DORIAN WARREN, touching on the environmental concerns of sprawl and new energy needs; the nation’s ailing infrastructure; the spectacular fall of the housing market and potential new programs for homeownership and affordable housing; how new national monuments planned for Washington DC, New York City and elsewhere might address a culture that is increasingly transnational in its makeup; and 21st century racial politics of space made manifest in our cities and borders.
Refreshments provided by IZZE Sparkling Juice
Free and open to the public
RSVP: gdb2106 [a] columbia.edu
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, NY NY 10014
www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/
