Fall 2017 Princeton Mellon Research Forum on the Urban Environment: Infrastructure and Materiality Organized by Andrew A. Johnson and Curt Gambetta<https://www.facebook.com/curt.gambetta?fref=mentions> 12pm, South Gallery, School of Architecture. Lunch will be provided. The Fall 2017 research forum focuses on materials that are important to urban life and infrastructure, including water, cargo, carbon, biota, air and building materials. Materials pose unique problems to our understanding of the built environment. Their scope ranges in time and scale from global networks and longue durée processes, to fleeting, microscopic phenomena, challenging scholars to rethink how they observe, theorize and tell stories about architecture, landscapes and the people that inhabit them. In order to explore new approaches, we present a series of dialogues between scholars of anthropology and architecture. Each dialogue focuses on a particular material, examining how materials shape the possibilities for human worlds, be they social, political, religious, cultural, or otherwise. September 25 - Biota Stuart McLean (Minnesota) Peder Anker (NYU) October 9 - Air Erik Harms (Yale) Enrique Ramirez (Ball State) October 16 - Carbon Gokce Gunel (Arizona) Ateya Khorakiwala (Princeton Mellon) November 15 - Cargo Jessie Le Cavalier (NJIT) Janell Rothenberg (UCLA) November 28 - Building Materials Diana Martinez (Tufts) Catherine Fennell (Columbia) December 6 - Water Nikil Anand (Penn) Mitch McEwan (Princeton)