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April 2021
Militarizing Rivers
The UIC Freshwater Lab presents: “Militarizing Rivers,” a digital panel on Thursday, April 6pm CST. As part of #TheBackwardRiver project, team members Kathleen Blackburn and Citlalli Trujillo talk water, oil and how water bodies have been straightened and subdued by armed forces with eco-feminist Banu Subramaniam; river policy expert Jeremy Cherson; and historian Robin McDowell. Why do we call a river, a waterbody known for turns and bends, a pipeline? We think of rivers coursing in a natural path, but pipelines direct…
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Climates of Inequality Discussion with José Bravo of Just Transition Alliance
Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center and co-sponsors for a series of online conversations this fall with environmental and climate justice advocates from across the country and abroad. On October 13, Just Transition Alliance Executive Director José Bravo will talk about the principles of Just Transition and how climate justice and chemicals policy relate to communities fighting for environmental and labor justice.
Find out more »November 2021
Les Lumières : Coldefy
A Chicago Architecture Biennial Partner Program Register Here Beyond questions of expression, we ask ourselves: how does this place make us feel? What do we see and hear, how does it dialogue with our memories? For Coldefy, Architecture shapes our life and should be created for all of our senses. Based in France and working with an international team, Coldefy "creates balanced environmental, urban and social compositions that push the boundaries of cities and life," weaving landscape and personal narratives in…
Find out more »December 2021
Unwinding Privatization: (Re)municipalism and the Public Interest – Interdisciplinary Online Conference
The purpose of the conference is to examine responses to failures of privatization in cities, especially in the United States and Europe, and what to make of those responses. Since the 1970s municipalities have sold public assets such as water, electricity, gas, waste systems, and transport, to private companies or else transferred the management or delivery of city services to private actors. The results have been at best mixed. Of late, municipalities have been cancelling contracts, letting them expire or repurchasing the…
Find out more »February 2022
City/Cité Conference: Designing a Gender-Equal City
In recent years, more European cities have begun to tackle the challenge of advancing gender equality by designing public spaces with gender in mind. But what does a gender-equal city look like, and how does gender-equal urban planning work in practice? Panelists: Eva Kail, Urban Planner, City of Vienna Sara Ortiz Escalante, Urban Planner, Col·lectiu Punt 6 Stéphanie Dadour, Associate Professor, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Paris-Malaquais, Laboratoire ACS UMR AUSser Moderator: Faranak Miraftab, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and…
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Democracy’s Rebirth: The View from Chicago
Dick Simpson, a long-time political activist and former Chicago alderman, uses the Windy City to examine how the political, racial, economic and social inequalities dividing us play out in our neighborhoods and cities.
Find out more »Public Space, Rivers, and Climate Change
Conversation on public space and climate change at Studio Gang with urban planner and architect Jennifer Buyck, resident of Villa Albertine Chicago.
Find out more »September 2022
Climates of Inequity
Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online conversations with environmental and climate justice leaders from across the country this fall. Their work reveals frameworks and strategies to address the disproportionate impacts of climate change and environmental pollution on communities of color, indigenous, and low-income earners. Students in the Environmental & Climate Justice course* will facilitate the conversations. RSVP: go.uic.edu/COI22 ClimatesOfInequlity_Fall2022
Find out more »October 2022
City/Cité Chicago x Paris Symposium
Designed in 2015 and first implemented in Chicago and San Francisco, CITY CITÉ is a transatlantic cooperation and exchange program on urban issues and city making, initiated by Villa Albertine. The 3rd Chicago edition entitled " Re/Inventing City Planning to Address Contemporary Issues " will be a two days of professional conference and visits on the renewal of the urban fabric and territorial planning in both cities. Thursday, October 13 – 8.30 am - 5 pm @ Studio Gang –…
Find out more »March 2023
Helen Shiller Book Talk and Archive Launch
Join us and Dis/Placements Project for a book talk and celebration of Former 46th Ward Alderperson Helen Schiller! We look forward to seeing you at the event on March 14, 2023 from 5-6:30 pm, Student Center East, Room 302, at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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