Design/History/Revolution - Panel 1: Design and Public Spaces | The New School

source: The New School     2012年5月18日
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Design/History/Revolution: At the Intersection of Art, Design, Politics, and Historical Studies
Defining its terms broadly, this two-day conference examines not only designed objects but also spaces and systems. It addresses a range of historical periods and geographical locations, and contact zones between these constructed categories.

Welcome by LAURA AURICCHIO, Parsons The New School for Design and The New School for Public Engagement
PANEL I. DESIGN AND PUBLIC SPACES:
Moderator: Ethan Robey, Parsons The New School for Design
1. Nina Harkrader, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Building for "The Other": Spatial Aspects of Architecture and Poverty in Victorian England
2. Joanna Merwood, School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design, "RED MOBS BATTLE POLICE": Union Square Park as Revolutionary Landscape
3. Amanda Gluibizzi, Ohio State University, "Making New York Understandable": Revolutionary Proposals for a City in Crisis
4. Jonah Westerman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Hurry Up and Wait: Socialist Realism, Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of the Threshold in the Moscow Metro
5. Kathleen Hulser, Independent Scholar/The New School/New York University, The Right Look and the Right to Look: Billboard Advertising and Visual Rights
For the full list of participants and two-day schedule, visit http://www.designhistoryrevolution.wo...

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Historical Studies of The New School for Social Research, the History Department at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design, the Humanities Department and the Global Studies Program at The New School for Public Engagement.
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Friday, April 27, 2012 2:00 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.