Urbanism Spring Lecture Series

This spring the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism co-hosted with the City Design & Development Program (CDD), and SMArchS Urbanism Program, the 2022 Spring Urbanism Lecture Series. The series included: 

Tuesday, February 8, 12:30pm
ISADORA HASTINGS & ELIS MARTÍNEZ
Cooperacion Comunitaria
Participatory design in social production and management of habitat processes to increase the resilience of rural communities

Tuesday, February 15, 12:00pm
RON RAEL
University of California Berkeley
Future Frontiers

Tuesday, February 22, 12:30pm
ADRIANA CHAVEZ
Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana
Towards resilient regions, cities, and communities in Latin America

Tuesday, March 1, 12:00pm
ROSETTA ELKIN
McGill University
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation

Tuesday, March 8, 12:30pm
ADAM CHERNICK
SHoP Architects
AR-based Communication for Architecture and Urban Design

Tuesday, March 15, 12:00pm
CHRIS MARCINKOSKI & JAVIER ARPA
University of Pennsylvania, TU Delft
(Incomplete) Notes on Speculative Urbanization

Thursday, March 31, 12:30pm
ROMIL SHETH
Sasaki
Resiliency, Diversity & Place Making in Contemporary Urban Design

Tuesday, April 5, 12:00pm
ALEJANDRO ECHEVERRI with LAWRENCE VALE
2022 Charles Correa (1955) Annual Lecture
Endless Journey for an Equitable City

Tuesday, April 12, 12:30pm
DALIA MUNENZON
ONE architecture + urbanism
Climate Adaptive Cities

Tuesday, April 19, 12:00pm
LUCIA ALLAIS
Columbia University
Stepwise: Topographic Modernism in Lebanon, ca. 1964

Tuesday, April 26, 12:00pm
BEAT WEBER
Development Workshop Namibia

All talks in the series are now available on the center’s medium channel: https://mitlcau.medium.com/