Urban Milwaukee » August 2010

SARUP Lecture Series

Simulated Landscapes, Rachel Bruya Walker and Piper Vollmer

Simulated Landscapes, Rachel Bruya Walker and Piper Vollmer Rachel Bruya Walker and Piper Vollmer will discuss their artwork featured in the Architecture Gallery. Both artists create miniature environments with dramatically different visuals. Influenced by popular culture and her experience working in the highly political San Francisco architecture industry, Bruya Walker creates paper structures employing printmaking and photography. Vollmer’s 3D prints envision planned communities cultivated from religious utopian desires. UWM – AUP 170

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

SARUP Lecture Series

What Makes Early American Architecture American: The Origins of Regional Building Practices

Carl Lounsbury, PhD, Lecturer at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia Lounsbury’s lecture will consider how English colonists reworked their building practices in response to regional conditions in the American colonies, especially during the 18th century. He will consider how English technologies and building forms changed in response to new materials as well as contact with other colonists and indigenous peoples. Co-sponsored with UWM Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Initiative and the Department of Art History, the Department of Landscape Architecture, and the Material Culture Program at UW-Madison. For more information, contact Assistant Professor Arijit Sen at sena@uwm.edu. UW-Madison Elvehjem Building L140

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

SARUP Symposium

Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces

This interdisciplinary symposium, which focuses on our engagement with the urban environment in its material and social contexts, will include speakers Swati Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at UC-Santa Barbara; Jennifer Cousineau, architectural historian with Parks Canada; Charlotte Fonrobert, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford; James Rojas, urban planner, artist, and founder of Latino Urban Forum in Los Angeles; Joseph Sciorra, Associate Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at Queens College’s John D. Calandra Italian American Institute; and Karen E. Till, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech. Co-sponsored with UWM Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultures & Communities Program, Peck School of the Arts, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and the Urban Studies Program. The symposium organizers at UWM – Joe Austin (History), Arijit Sen (Architecture), Lisa Silverman (History), and coordinator Kate Kramer offer a special thank you to Simone Ferro (Dance). For more information, contact Assistant Professor Arijit Sen at sena@uwm.edu. UWM – Curtin 175

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

SARUP Lecture Series

Green Pathways out of Poverty and into Prosperity

Raquel Pinderhughes, Professor of Urban Studies, San Francisco State University Workforce development programs are gearing up to prepare men and women from low-income communities for jobs and careers in the green economy. The training and preparation for these jobs and careers are seen as a ‘green pathway out of poverty’ strategy, aiming to leverage green economy opportunities as a sustainable solution for moving individuals from dependency to self-sufficiency. This presentation will focus on the role that green job training can play in preparing low-income youth and adults for the green economy both as workers and activists who come from the communities most impacted by environmental problems and injustices. UWM – AUP 170

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

SARUP Lecture Series

Infrastructural Ecologies

Clare Lyster, Principal, CLUAA, Chicago, and Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Architects are increasingly turning to infrastructure as a site of research and design practice. The lecture contemplates architecture’s agency in the “infrastructural project”, though research on the disciplines fall out with the networks of Post-Fordist Space, what Manuel Castells calls “the space of flows”. This is presented through projects that identify new networks that challenge traditional notions of infrastructure; expose new architectural typologies in contemporary urban systems and establish new techniques for the representation of urban delivery networks. UWM – AUP 170

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

SARUP Lecture Series

The Placemakers Guide to Building Community

Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor of Housing and Urban Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England Nabeel Hamdi is one of the pioneers of participatory planning and his book Small Change has been highly influential in describing the role that informality plays in urban life. It sets out a way of thinking on cities that gives precedence to small-scale, incremental change over large-scale projects. He shows how the trickle-down effect advocated by conservatives everywhere does not produce the sort of large-scale changes that are predicted. Instead, the trickle-up effect of self-organized systems produce the biggest changes Location: UWM – AUP 170

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

The Role of the Creative Sector in Community and Economic Development

The City of Milwaukee, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, and the Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) invite you to a very special panel discussion with the Chair for the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman. The Role of the Creative Sector in Community and Economic Development moderated by Lt Governor Barbara Lawton. Friday, September 17th Panel Discussion 10:30-11:45 am Milwaukee Art Museum, Lubar Auditorium RSVP requested Space limited, open to the public FREE Join the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee to get an update on the Creativity Works!project; to hear the perspective of the NEA on the importance of our creative sector; and to enjoy spirited discussion on how the creative sector contributes to our community’s livability and sustainability. Chair Landesman is visiting Milwaukee to acknowledge and support our being awarded an NEA/Mayors Institute on City Design grant for Creativity Works! Milwaukee Regional Creative Economy Project. This project is a partnership between the City of Milwaukee, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, and the GMC. We have received one of only 21 grants awarded nationally, out of 200+ applicants.We look forward to seeing you on September 17.

Aug 31st, 2010 by Dave Reid

Will Durst

Obama’s creed cred

A few years ago anybody who spoke badly of the President was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists with a back rub. Not any more.

Aug 31st, 2010 by Will Durst