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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Call for artists, Tongue Tide, Queens, NY
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Call for artists, Tongue Tide, Queens, NY Tongue Tide Exhibition Dates: July 3-August 2 Major Exhibition Open Call : Tongue Tide Inspired by the location in Queens, NY, Tongue Tide invites creative practitioners, artists, performers, researchers, and educators to submit proposals for new artworks, workshops, and performances with the subject matter of language. Artists will receive stipends to participate. More information, submission guidelines, and application: http://www.fluxfactory.org/events/tongue-tide/? ? ?Deadline is March 30 Tongue Tide is one of Flux's major 2017 exhibitions and is curated by Emireth Herrera<http://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/emireth-herrera/> and Christina Freeman<http://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/christina-freeman/>. According to the 2015 census, half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home and over 200 languages are spoken across New York City. Including speakers of endangered languages, the number is closer to 700. As the most diversely language dense area on the planet, the borough of Queens is positioned as a unique microcosm of the greater world - and within it Flux Factory an ever-changing reflection of this multilingualism. This exhibition will explore the plethora of living languages in the borough of Queens, NY and their potential as a springboard for connections across the globe. We are interested in the dual nature of language as simultaneously expressive and limiting. The title Tongue Tide references the phrase, "Mother Tongue," meaning one's native language, as well as the colloquialism "Tongue Tied", or speechless, expressing the limits of that language. Replacing "Tied" with the word "Tide", references the ocean tide, and the organic, fluid aspect of language. Artists are invited to propose new works around the theme of language and translation including, hybrid, vernacular, and invented languages, American Sign Language, gesture, body language, subtitling, language censorship, coding, word play, and slang lexicons such as "urbandictionary.com<http://urbandictionary.com/>". Works can take the form of musical performance, stand-up comedy, sound installation, food art, dinner party, dance party, karaoke, human megaphone, sidewalk chalking, mail art, chain letter/pyramid scheme, mixtapes, site specific signage, bike messenger art, flyering, coupons, text-messages, Apps, virtual reality technology (oculus rift, Google cardboard), web art, language classes, workshops, walking tours, scavenger hunts, interspecies communication, t-shirts/merchandise, poetry readings, dictionaries, zines, film screenings, theatrical performances, opera, endangered language archiving, artists' books, as well as 2D/3D/4D works. Artists will be informed of acceptance status by April 30.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 8: Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City Saturday, April 8 | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM Co-sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Gallatin, NYU Shanghai Center for Data Science and Analytics, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and the Institute for Public Knowledge This day-long symposium examines how we can use data and digital strategies to enhance and disrupt the kinds of research questions, methods, and narratives that define the humanities. It also complicates the role of the urban university in a global “city-state” such as New York, where the boundaries between university and city are quite blurred. This symposium is an opportunity to rethink our alliances, forge stronger and more equal relationships between university-affiliated researchers and community-based organizations, and amplify opportunities to share both resources and authorship with one another. Schedule: 9-9:30am: Coffee and pastries 9:30-9:45am: Brief Welcome, Rebecca Amato<http://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/ra281.html>, Urban Democracy Lab/NYU Gallatin 9:45-11:15am Panel One: Queering the Web How are history, social change and stasis, and the actions of people over time simply and creatively represented on a website? How do the computational structures, design paradigms, and visual histories of the digital medium reify social norms? Do gender and sexuality play a significant role in the performative experience of the computer interface? This panel will discuss how the course “Queering the Web: A Practical, Digital Inquiry into the History of Gender and Sexuality” addresses these complex questions, through the study and redesign of the public history site OutHistory.org<http://outhistory.org/>. Site founder and independent scholar Jonathan Ned Katz, along with professors Kimon Keramidas and Elizabeth Heard and their students will discuss the development of the class and progress made towards answering these questions. Kimon Keramidas<http://kimonkeramidas.com/>, Draper Program, NYU Jonathan Ned Katz<http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/katzresume/introduction>, Outhistory.org <http://outhistory.org/>Elizabeth Heard<http://nyu.academia.edu/ElizabethHeard>, Performance Studies, NYU Cindy Li, MA candidate, Social Cultural Analysis, NYU 11:30-1pm Panel Two: Decolonizing Data The power dynamics inherent in data collection, interpretation, and dissemination reproduce inequities, bolster systems of oppression, and reduce human experience to a numbers game. As our cities turn to informatics for policymaking, budgeting, policing, and resource distribution, this panel seeks to critique the use of data in a world more complicated, messy, and creative than the numbers would have us believe. Jack Tchen<http://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/jkt1.html>, NYU Noah Fuller, NYU Heather Lee<https://research.shanghai.nyu.edu/centers-and-institutes/datascience/people…>, NYU Shanghai Jane Choe, B.A. Gallatin 2018 Molly Elizabeth Smith, MLK Jr. Scholar, B.A. Gallatin 2018 1-2:30pm LUNCH BREAK (recommendations to be provided) 2:30-4pm Panel Three: Activist Geographies Mapping and geographical analysis have transformed humanities scholarship by anchoring narratives of all kinds in space and place. Where an incident happens, whether it be historical, political, or even literary, changes the way we understand it. Yet maps themselves can also be deterministic, forcing us to lose sight of the ways in which, as Mark Monmonier writes, “maps lie.” This panel looks at mapping as a powerful tool for activism and analysis, while also demonstrating the need to include other perspectives, such as interactivity, oral history, and historical narrative, to deepen its utility. Caleb Elfenbein<https://www.grinnell.edu/users/elfenbei>, “Mapping Islamophobia<https://mappingislamophobia.com/>,” Grinnell College Erin McElroy<https://modelviewculture.com/authors/erin-mcelroy>, “Anti-Eviction Mapping Project<http://www.antievictionmap.com/>,” San Francisco Tenants Union Julian Chambliss<http://www.julianchambliss.com/>, “Recovering Black Community Space: Hannibal Square and Black Social World in Central Florida<http://blackquotidian.com/anvc/black-quotidian/march-4-1893>,” Rollins College Joshua Jelly-Schapiro<http://joshuajellyschapiro.com/>, Visiting Scholar, NYU, Co-editor with Rebecca Solnit of Nonstop Metropolis<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285941> 4:15-6pm: Simultaneous Workshops and Break-Out Discussions Practical Data Workshops Part I: Collecting and Protecting Your Data, Nick Wolf <https://library.nyu.edu/people/nicholas-wolf/> and Victoria Steeves<https://library.nyu.edu/people/victoria-steeves/>, NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222) In this workshop we’ll talk about recommended practices at different times in the research life cycle, from the gathering of data and research materials to personal archiving and sharing project data. We’ll focus on helpful workflow tools for managing data such as the Open Science Framework, options for short-term storage, and ways to approach long term preservation, sharing, and distribution. Part II: Free and Open Source Digital Tools, Nick Wolf<https://library.nyu.edu/people/nicholas-wolf/> and Victoria Steeves<https://library.nyu.edu/people/victoria-steeves/>, NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222) Recent years have seen an explosion of higher-quality, community-supported researcher tools for working on digital projects. In this workshop we’ll engage collectively in a conversation about what tools have been effective, what we need to know about community development, and preview a few select tools that are useful to current researchers working in web publishing, project management, data cleaning and preparing, and spatial analysis. Walking Tour: Below the Grid: An Interactive Guide to Walking Practice, Noah Fuller How does each of us move through the city? How can we reflect on and engage with our walking practice? Join artist and curator Noah Fuller for a multi-sensory walking tour that digs into the intermingled historical layers below the New York City grid. [Traveling from the Bowery to Astor Pl to Washington Square Park. Bring a smartphone and comfortable shoes.] Project Development Mentorship, Jenny Kijowski<http://gallatin.nyu.edu/about/staff/jyl230.html>, Educational Technologist, NYU Gallatin Do you have a digital humanities or data-driven project that you would like to talk through? NYU Educational Technologist Jenny Kijowski will facilitate a practical discussion with symposium participants interested in developing project ideas and creating a toolkit of resources that can transform those ideas into actionable plans. 7-8:30pm: Data in Context: Lessons from Urban Space, Keynote with Gergely Baics<https://barnard.edu/profiles/gergely-baics> and Leah Meisterlin<http://www.leahmeisterlin.com/> With the growth of data pertinent to humanities scholarship, we have seen the development of new tools and techniques of analysis. In this talk, Baics and Meisterlin will present lessons from their recent work on urban spatial research. Still, despite the changing technological landscape, primary among these lessons is a simple return to first principles: the answers we find depend on the questions we ask and the context in which we ask them. ** Please RSVP here<https://goo.gl/forms/9beFa3TERnBMMzkO2> for individual panels and workshops ** Free and open to the public 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Conference Room Saturday, April 8, 9am to 8:30pm?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar. 30: The Public and Publics: A Day-Long Conference
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

*******THIS THURSDAY, MARCH 30TH******* WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN ALL-DAY CONFERENCE: "THE PUBLIC AND PUBLICS"; please join us for the event! Vist our web page for further information: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-public-and-publics-co…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.centerforthehumanit…> Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1339817879394619/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_event…> *** The Public and Publics: A Day-Long Conference Setha Low and Amy Chazkel, co-organizers Sponsored by The Futures Initiative, the Public Space Research Group, Center for Human Environments, and the Center for the Humanities Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Location: The Segal Theater at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Keynote speaker: Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden Schedule for the day: 9:00-9:15 Welcome. Provost Joy Connolly, CUNY Graduate Center 9:15-10:45 Publics, Law and Governance (Amy Chazkel, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College, moderator) Sally Engle Merry, Anthropology NYU and NYU School of Law, "Governing by Numbers and the Seduction of the Public" Eduardo Zimmermann, History, Universidad de San Andrés/ Columbia University, Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor (Spring 2017), "Law, Governance, and the Redefinition of Private/Public in Twentieth-Century Argentina" Clarence Taylor, History, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, "The Nation of Islam Confronts Police Brutality" Misty Crooks, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, "Gender, Race, and State Power: An Interdiscursive Take on North Carolina's Transgender Bathroom Law" 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Publics and Social Movements (Dana Taplin, ActKnowledge/ Public Space Research Group, moderator) Cecilia Salvi, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, ""En la vía pública: Repurposed Cardboard as Literary Art" Vladimir Gurewich, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, "Creditable Publics: The Formation of Counter Publics under Trump, or When Orange is the New White " Craig Willse, Cultural Studies, George Mason University, "'People with AIDS are Dying for Homes': AIDS, Activism, and Housing" 12:30-1:30 Lunch (on the 8th floor) 1:30-2:30 Keynote by Don Mitchell, Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, "Taking Public Space, Making Publics" followed by discussion 2:30-4:00 Publics and Space (Setha Low, Anthropology/ Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, moderator) Mike Owen Benediktsson, Sociology, CUNY Hunter College, "'Conflicted Aspirations': Constructing the Public on the Brooklyn Waterfront" Talha Issevenler, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, "Technicity, violence, political religion: limits and conditions of public space" Carmen Rial, Anthropology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, "Sports Mega-Events: Going Beyond National and Public Space" 4:00-5:30 Publics, the Arts and the Media (Joshua Brown, History/ American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center, moderator) Claire Bishop, Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, "Making Art (in) Public" Kendra Sullivan, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, "Never Open, Never Closed: A Storefront on Pause and Other Layered Spaces" Cory Tamler, Theatre Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, "Human Stories, Inhuman Landscapes" 5:30-6:00 Open discussion, concluding remarks and future plans (Setha Low and Amy Chazkel) Panelists' presentations are 15 minutes with ½ hour of discussion following each. This conference is free and open to the public. Of course. For more information: slow(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:slow@gc.cuny.edu> or achazkel(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:achazkel@qc.cuny.edu> Visit the conference website: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-public-and-publics-co…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.centerforthehumanit…> ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Two Funding opportunities for applicants to Master's program in geography at Hunter College
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

Two Funding opportunities for MA in Geography: 1. Advanced Institute for Transportation Education (AITE) Scholarship ($25,000 per student for four semesters). To apply for an AITE Full-Time Student Scholarship (http://www.utrc2.org/education/aite-scholarships<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.utrc2.org_education…>), an applicant will need to: • Apply and be admitted as a matriculated student to our Master's program; • Have completed a bachelor’s degree with a minimum grade point average of 2.7; • Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Four applicants from our program were awarded this scholarship in the past two years. 2. Two awards of $3,000 each to incoming female Master's students, funded by Society of Woman Geographers New York Group. Female applicants will automatically be considered. Please contact Prof. Hongmian Gong at gong(a)hunter.cuny.edu<mailto:gong@hunter.cuny.edu> should you have any questions regarding these two funding opportunities. MA in Geography program web page: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/programs/ggeography.html (for U.S. applicants with an undergraduate GPA of 3 or above, you could email me to request a waiver of GRE scores). Best, Hongmian Gong, Ph.D. Professor and Geography Graduate Advisor Department of Geography Hunter College - CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 Office phone: (212)772-4658 Web page: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~hgong/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 23: Book Launch of New Biography of Norman Bel Geddes @ Queens Museum
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Book Launch of New Biography of Norman Bel Geddes with author B. Alexandra Szerlip Sunday, April 23 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park More info: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/book-launch-of-new-biography-of-norman-b… Join us for reading by the author B. Alexandra Szerlip followed by a discussion with Louise Weinberg, Registrar and Archives Manager and Curator at the Queens Museum. The event will conclude with book sale and signing. Norman Bel Geddes was a ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming. He designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 World's Fair exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant sixties. In The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth Century America, B. Alexandra Szerlip reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater became immersive, function merged with form, and people became consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes's visionary career would launch him into social circles with the Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans of industry. Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came to look the way it did. B. Alexandra Szerlip is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow, a Yaddo fellow, and runner-up for London's Lothian Prize for a first biography-in progress. She has contributed to The Paris Review Daily and The Believer, among other publications, and has worked in professional theater, as a book editor, sculptor and graphic designer. Raised on the East Coast, she lives in San Francisco.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 18: Dadaab is a Place on Earth: Architecture in the Twilight of the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Dadaab is a Place on Earth: Architecture in the Twilight of the World's Largest Refugee Camp Tuesday, April 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Urban Democracy Lab 20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor More info and RSVP: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/dadaab-is-a-place-on-earth-architecture-in-… This moderated discussion concerns architecture and emergency urbanism in history, focusing on the constructed environment of the UNHCR-administered refugee camp complex at Dadaab, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. Paradoxical for its scale and ephemerality together, the Dadaab complex at once approaches and resists being “urban,” on the one hand, and a “camp,” on the other. Established in 1991 to shelter thirty thousand refugees, the Dadaab complex expanded over the course of a quarter century to five settlements with a compound headquartering a centralized structure of humanitarian agencies. According to unofficial counts, it currently houses one half million refugees and asylum seekers, along with humanitarian aid workers in residence. In early 2016, citing security threats, the government of Kenya announced that it would close the complex prior to the next general election, and dismantled the Department of Refugee Affairs as a decisive measure. Through a detailed discussion on design, use, aesthetics, and affect at the Dadaab site, we aim to study the social and political lived realities of an environment constructed to be liminal. Introduction by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Discussion with Samar Al-Bulushi, Alishine Osman, Ben Rawlence, and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Moderated by Rosalind Fredericks Remarks by AbdouMaliq Simone Organized by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi with Rachel Stern. Photo taken in Ifo Camp, 2011, by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. For further inquiries or to obtain teaching materials related to this event, please contact gallatin.communications(a)nyu.edu<mailto:gallatin.communications@nyu.edu>. Speakers Samar Al-Bulushi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Her research examines the relationship between transnational governance, militarized urbanisms, and middle class subject formation in the context of Kenya’s role in the US-led “War on Terror.” Previously, Samar worked with various human rights organizations, including the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). As an independent journalist between 2010-2011, Samar co-produced and co-hosted AfrobeatRadio and Global Movements, Urban Struggles on Pacifica’s WBAI in New York City. Her work has appeared in Africa is a Country, Transforming Anthropology, Jacobin, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, and Pambazuka News. Rosalind Fredericks is an Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. After completing her PhD in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, she was a postdoctoral research scholar with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Trained as an urban and cultural geographer, her research interests are centered on urban development, citizenship, political ecology, infrastructure, and geographies of waste in Africa. Her forthcoming book manuscript, Garbage Citizenship: Vibrant Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Duke University Press), chronicles the infrastructural politics surrounding municipal garbage labor in the wake of structural adjustment. A new research project funded by the National Science Foundation examines planning and activism surrounding the proposed closure of the city’s dump, Mbeubeuss. She also has an ongoing research project on the role of hip-hop in elections in Senegal. Fredericks has edited two books with Mamadou Diouf on citizenship in African cities:Les Arts de la Citoyenneté au Sénégal: Espaces Contestés et Civilités Urbaines (Editions Karthala, 2013) and The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). Alishine Osman left Somalia at the age of seven due to political turmoil and was settled in Ifo Refugee Camp, Dadaab, Kenya. He and his family were confined there from 1991 to 2007. Osman graduated from the first class to pass through Ifo Secondary School, and worked in Dadaab for the international humanitarian organization Norwegian Refugee Council. On September 10, 2007, he was resettled in the United States. He attended Harrisburg Area Community College, and received a BA degree in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University. Osman works in a social service organization in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and as a language and cultural consultant across the United States. Ben Rawlence is the author of Radio Congo (OneWorld, 2012) and City of Thorns (Picador, 2016). He has worked as a speechwriter and policy advisor in the US, UK, and East Africa and also as a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch. He lives in Wales. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University, and co-editor of the volume Spatial Violence (Routledge, 2016). Her research focuses on spatial politics, urbanisms, and modernist culture and discourses in history, drawing from primary research in East Africa and South Asia on two book projects, Architecture of Humanitarianism: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Emergency Urbanism in History and Vocal Instruments: Minnette De Silva and an Asian Modern Architecture. The Fulbright Scholar Program, Social Science Research Council, Graham Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, New York University, and National Endowment for the Arts have supported her work, and she has taught in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College and in the Art and Design History and Theory Department at Parsons The New School for Design. She received a PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and practiced architecture in the United States and India. AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist with particular interest in emerging forms of collective life across cities of the so-called Global South. He has worked across many different academic, administrative, research, policymaking, advocacy, and organizational contexts. Simone is presently Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Visiting Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. Key publications include In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan (University of Chicago Press, 1994), For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities (Duke University Press, 2004), and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads (Routledge, 2009), Jakarta: Drawing the City Near (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and the forthcoming New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (Polity) with Edgar Pieterse. Sponsors: Gallatin Dean, Human Rights, Urban Democracy Lab, Global Design English, History, Art History, Sociology, Social and Cultural Analysis (Africana Studies) Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space working group Center for the Humanities

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 13: From DIY Urbanism to Actually Existing Commons
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

>From DIY Urbanism to Actually Existing Commons Thursday, April 13 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/actually-existing-commons/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge and Gehl Institute invite you to join us for a lunchtime presentation from Jeffrey Hou, professor of landscape architecture and and urban design and planning at the University of Washington, Seattle, on his new work on "urban commoning." Against the backdrop of increasing enclosures of the public realm through forces of privatization and neoliberalization, acts of urban commoning have emerged in cities around the world. Defined as the making of alternative spatial and social relations primarily outside state institutions and market economy, urban commoning represents a mode of counter-hegemonic spatial practice that goes beyond the popularized DIY urbanism movement, increasingly embraced by institutions and professional actors. In East Asia, a variety of urban commoning actions have mushroomed in recent years in cities including Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. These range from self-organized activities to actions that leverage institutional initiatives to activate urban sites. The emergence of urban commoning in East Asia is particularly significant as these activities are occurring in places where public space has virtually been non-existent historically, or have been highly controlled by the state. These cases and initiatives are contributing to a new understanding of social actions and assemblages with important implications for the making of contemporary cities. ________________________________ Jeffrey Hou is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Adjunct Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on design activism, community engagement, and public space and democracy. In a career that spans across the Pacific, he has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, and fishers in Taiwan, neighborhood residents in Japan, villagers in China, and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cities. Hou is the editor of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Citiesand co-editor of Messy Urbanism: Understanding the 'Other' Cities of Asia. His next collection, City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy is due out this year.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar. 28: Linking People and Technology for Environmental Systems Planning
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Linking People and Technology for Environmental Systems Planning Carissa Slotterback Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Tuesday, March 28 | 1:15 PM Columbia GSAPP 1172 Amsterdam Ave. Avery Hall, Rm 114 More info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/549-carissa-slotterback Modeling, visualization, and planning support technologies offer great potential to improve our understanding of the complex and dynamic environmental systems around us. They offer particular promise in helping planners and policymakers make better decisions about environmental impacts, informed by the best available scientific knowledge. At the same time, we cannot ignore the significant knowledge that people, in the places where we plan and develop policy, bring to the table. Innovative approaches to applying technology in environmental systems planning necessarily engage deeply with people and place. Drawing insights from a recent technology-supported collaborative planning process in Minnesota, the presentation will highlight how we can better link people and technology to build consensus and achieve better environmental outcomes. Efforts to integrate scientific knowledge with expertise from key stakeholders will be shared, as well as strategies for planning that are environmentally beneficial, economically viable, and community-supported. The Lectures in Planning Series (LiPS) is an initiative of the Urban Planning program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. All lectures are free and open to the public; refreshments are provided. For more information or to make program suggestions, email lipscolumbiaplanning(a)gmail.com<mailto:lipscolumbiaplanning@gmail.com>.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: FW: Deer seasonal posting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Hi all, We're looking to hire a vegetation monitoring field tech for the deer project. Please feel free to share this job posting. Thanks! Novem

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Revised: Natural Areas Conservancy PAID Summer Internships (with APPLICATION attachment in body of email)
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

<mailto:Ruth.Rae at parks.nyc.gov <https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudiescircular>> Good Morning, I hope your spring semester is going well. This summer the Natural Areas Conservancy is able to provide several paid internship opportunities for enrolled CUNY students to collect ecological data in NYC Parks at citywide locations. The job announcement is attached and copied below. Please distribute widely. Happy to talk with any prospective interns or give you more details. Helen Helen M. Forgione Senior Ecologist T 212.360.1451 C 917.304.7185 E helen.forgione at parks.nyc.gov <https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudiescircular><mailto:helen.forgione at parks.nyc.gov <https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudiescircular>> [NAC_parks_lockup-02.jpg] Natural Areas Conservancy 1234 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029naturalareasnyc.org We appreciate your support! DONATE TODAY<http://naturalareasnyc.org/donate/> Follow Natural Areas Conservancy on: Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/NaturalAreasNYC> | Twitter<twitter.com/NaturalAreasNYC> | Instagram<http://instagram.com/naturalareasnyc> Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) Paid Summer Internship Announcement Job Title: Summer 2017 Ecological Assessment Paid Internships Job Location: Graduate Positions and Undergraduate Positions available with reporting locations in New York City (Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn) Duration: 8-12 weeks, 35 hours/week, during June 4 - August 24, 2017 Internship: The Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) will lead an ecological assessment of the natural resources of NYC Parks. Student interns will be trained and will work under the supervision of NAC ecologists. All interns will collect vegetation and site condition data in forests, wetlands, and grasslands. This position is approximately 90% field work (outdoors) and 10% office work. Main tasks include: * Report promptly and directly to field sites and work as part of a team of three interns conducting ecological site assessments as directed * Accurately locate assessment plots using Trimble GPS on foot and carrying 30 lbs. packs * Accurately collect data such as understory plant species identification, percent cover vegetation, woody species identification, tree diameter, tree height, tree canopy health, coarse woody debris, human use and impacts and additional site attributes according to assessment protocols * Document, download, and edit field data daily or as needed on computer data recorders or paper datasheets * Assist in data entry as needed To apply send: A. Statement of interest & career goals (SICG). Please indicate the Borough(s) in which you are willing to work. B. Resume (R) C. Copy of unofficial transcripts (UOT) To: Helen.forgione at parks.nyc.gov <https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudiescircular><mailto:Helen.forgione at parks.nyc.gov <https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudiescircular>> All applications must be submitted prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on: April 7, 2017 Please send all materials electronically as PDF files with each labeled follows: A. 2017_last name_first init._SICG (i.e. '2017_Jones_J_SICG.pdf'); B. 2017_last name, first init_R (i.e. '2017_Jones_J_R.pdf'); C. 2017_last name, first init_UOT (i.e. '2017_Jones_J_UOT.pdf') *Text from Email Attachment:* *Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) * *Paid Summer Internship Announcement* *Job Title: Summer 2017 Ecological Assessment Paid Internships* *Job Location: *Graduate Positions and Undergraduate Positions available with reporting locations in New York City (Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn) *Duration:* 8-12 weeks, 35 hours/week, during June 4 - August 24, 2017 *Internship: * The Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) will lead an ecological assessment of the natural resources of NYC Parks. Student interns will be trained and will work under the supervision of NAC ecologists. All interns will collect vegetation and site condition data in forests, wetlands, and grasslands. This position is approximately 90% field work (outdoors) and 10% office work. Main tasks include: - Report promptly and directly to field sites and work as part of a team of three interns conducting ecological site assessments as directed - Accurately locate assessment plots using Trimble GPS on foot and carrying 30 lbs. packs - Accurately collect data such as understory plant species identification, percent cover vegetation, woody species identification, tree diameter, tree height, tree canopy health, coarse woody debris, human use and impacts and additional site attributes according to assessment protocols - Document, download, and edit field data daily or as needed on computer data recorders or paper datasheets - Assist in data entry as needed To apply send: *A. Statement of interest & career goals (SICG). Please indicate the Borough(s) in which you are willing to work.* *B. Resume (R)* *C. Copy of unofficial transcripts (UOT)* To: Helen.forgione(a)parks.nyc.gov All applications must be submitted prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on: *April 1, 2017* *Please send all materials electronically as PDF files with each labeled follows: * *A. *2017_last name_first init._SICG (i.e. ‘2017_Jones_J_SICG.pdf’); *B.* 2017_last name, first init_R (i.e. ‘2017_Jones_J_R.pdf’); *C.* 2017_last name, first init_UOT (i.e. ‘2017_Jones_J_UOT.pdf’)

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