Meeting Reminder:
Thursday, October 6,
8:00 a.m.
Center for Architecture,
1218 Arch Street
, Philadelphia
Please enter through the building lobby, not the Bookstore and Design Center.
Prema Gupta, Director, Planning & Economic Development of University City District will be discussing public space improvement projects in University City including the new plaza at 30th Street Station.
NEW DAGspace
In the first DAGspace for fall, Janice Woodcock tackles the thorny question of
Philadelphia's possible future as a center for industry. She finds bright
possibilities, but warns that they will be dimmed if we do not plan carefully.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
LECTURES:
WANG SHU Chief Architect, Amateur Architecture Studio Professor & Dean, School of Architecture China Academy of Art Mon. Oct. 3rd 6:30PM Meyerson Hall B1
KENGO KUMA Principal, Kengo Kuma and Associates Wed. Oct. 5th 6PM Upper / Meyerson Hall Lower Gallery
EVENTS:
Design in Action 2011, October 9-11, promises to be two full days of provocative panels and discussions about design advocacy, action and education. We'd love for you to help promote and attend the conference and help us FILL THE HOUSE on Monday, October 10, 5:30-7:30 to welcome Teddy Cruz our keynote, Ford Fellow and one of Fast Co's top 50 Influential Designers. Register for the Conference
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Attend the Teddy Talk, Oct 10
· Visit Leverage, The Exhibition during Design Philadelphia
· Purchase Leverage, The Book in celebration of the Collaborative's 20th Anniversary!
Two new exhibits at The Gershman Y Galleries will highlight the urban experience in distinct and thought-provoking ways. The exhibits will run from September 15 to November 20, 2011.
Beautiful Imbalance: Screening of Manufactured Landscapes and Talk Back Tuesday, October 18, 7pm, $6
Jennifer Baichwal's provocative documentary Manufactured Landscapes (2006) features Edward Burtynsky's striking "still life" photographs of China's industrial landscapes -- factories, mines, dams, and more -- to illustrate humanity's destructive impact on land and environment. Screening followed by presentation and talk back by Barry Vacker, Associate Professor of media, utopian and cultural theory at Temple University
Symposium: Imaging and Imagining Our Cities Sunday, October 23, 3pm
. Abandoned America, Ordos (China), Arcosanti (Arizona), and Masdar City (U.A.E.) — four regions, four models, four pasts, and four futures, yet all saying something about the "now" -- the present moment in our cities. In conjunction with the Open Lens Gallery exhibition Before and After Utopia: Images of Abandonment, Absence and Aspiration, this symposium will examine how we have imaged and imagined our cities a decade into the millennium and what our observations, documentation, and participation in the evolution of cities means for the future of the urban metropolis. Panelists include Elijah Anderson, author of the Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life and other notable books on urban life, as well as Photo Review founder and editor Stephen Perloff and photographer Michael Meysarosh. Free.
Best, Design Advocacy Group
Joanne Aitken, FAIA
Chair
PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future