Arriscraft Speaker Series | Winter 2022
Thank you for joining us for our winter events. We look forward to welcoming you to our Fall 2022 Praxes of Care events on the theme ofCommunication. Fulldetails to be announced in the upcoming months.
Praxes of Care: Action
ThePraxes of Carespeaker series is dedicated to the late emeritus professor Andrew Levitt dedicated to teaching on care and with care.
Horizontal
pedagogies:
in
practice
January
27th,
6:00pm
Jess
Myers
&
Keri
Monaghan
Moderated
by
Reza
Nik
Horizontal
pedagogies:
nurturing
culture
March
3rd,
6:00pm
Jelisa
Blumberg
&
Curry
Hackett
Moderated
by
Ozayr
Saloojee
&
Jaliya
Fonseka
"Etuaptmumk":
two-eyed
seeing
and
design
March
10th,
6:00pm
Dr.
Albert
Marshall&
Richard
Kroeker
Moderated
by
John
McMinn
Horizontal
pedagogies:
in
classrooms
March
17th,
6:00pm
Anna
María
León
&
Pelin
Tan
Moderated
by
Paniz
Moayeri
Living
with
water
March
24th,
8:00pm
Kongjian
Yu
&
Alpa
Nawre
Moderated
by
Jane
Mah
Hutton
Praxes of Care asks, "what is an architecture of care?"Over four terms–Fall 2021 to Winter 2023–a series of conversations will bring together two or more architects, designers, researchers, artists, activists, and care workers to discuss care processes according to the themes of Attention, Action, Communication, and Maintenance. The series is curated by faculty, staff, and representatives of student groups: Treaty Lands Global Stories, Bridge, and the Sustainability Collective. Recent calls for change have shifted the discipline toward the underlying social and ecological processes enabled by the production of architecture. By listening to and learning about care practices from interdisciplinary perspectives, we can begin to reshape the discipline of architecture into a form of care.
WINTER 2022: ACTION
In our ongoing Speaker Series, this semester we investigate action within a praxis of care.
In taking action within care practice, we first take on responsibility. To act in care also requires additional factors that care theorists Joan Tronto and Bernice Fisher identify as time, material resources, knowledge, and skill. We might also add emotional and physical energy to this list. As a praxis, care is the manifestation of theory through embodied practice. We, as architects, are in a powerful position to care for and with people through our practices of placemaking. Architects and designers have an explicit obligation to their publics to take on the responsibility and enactment of care work.
In the action of care, the carer often has power over the cared-for. Care work, therefore, lives within power imbalance. Western technoscience theorists Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers, and Ana Viseu reflect on how critical care practices must be “committed to an intersectional feminism that can grapple with the constellations of power manifest in concatenations of capitalism, colonialism, race, class, ability and gender.” As architects working within a position of power, we must practice care-fully.
Accessibility:ݮƵ Architecture is committed to achieving accessibility for persons with disabilities who are attending the event. Closed Captioning will be available during the live event. For accommodation questions and requests, please contact us in advance of the event.
All events will be held online.
Thelecture series committee is: Tara Bissett, Adrian Blackwell, Amanda Dudnik, Preetha Arulananthan, Julie Dring, Jaliya Fonseka, Marie-Paule Macdonald, MayuriParanthahan, Brenda Reid, Beth Vince, Wendy Yuan, Joel Wan, Victor Zagabe.
Brenda Reid's recent graduate thesis,, acts as the foundational framework for the series, including its four-part structure: attention, action, communication and maintenance.
The four linked posters for the series are designed by Julia Nakanishi.
The three-partHorizontal Pedagogiessymposium in the winter of 2022–In practice, Nurturing culture,andIn classrooms–was conceptualized and organized by graduate student Mayuri Paranthahan.