Who Builds the City? Symposium
Friday, Nov 7, 20142:54 PM — Saturday, Nov 8, 20142:54 PMEDT
| Toronto, ON, Canada
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In what ways can architectural institutions – publishers, museums, schools and government – play a role in and have a positive effect on the development of their cities? How can we work together in partnership to develop stronger and more effective cultures of architecture and urbanism in Canadian cities? Keynote Address | Friday, November 7, 2014 | 6-8 pm | Glenn Gould Studio Symposium | Saturday, November 8, 2014 | 9 am -5 pm | TIFF Bell Light Box, The Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema (Cinema 4) This is a free public event; registration is required (click links above). For more details: http://www.arch.ryerson.ca/?p=7529 Keynote Address Sheldon Levy, President and Vice-Chancellor (Ryerson University) Session One: What can architecture publishing do? Practical Speaker: Anh-Linh Ngo (Arch+, Berlin) Academic Speaker: Steve Parnell (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) Local Speaker: Elsa Lam (Canadian Architect, Toronto) Moderator: Arjen Oosterman (Volume, Rotterdam) Session Two: What can an architecture museum do? Practical Speaker: Pedro Gadanho (MoMA , New York) Academic Speaker: Sergio Miguel Figueiredo (TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Local Speaker: Sascha Hastings (Project Manager Venice Biennale, RAIC) Moderator: Jennifer Davis (MOCCA, Toronto) Session Three: What can a school do? Practical Speaker: Marina Otero Verzier (Studio-X, GSAPP, Columbia University) Academic Speaker: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan (Princeton University) Academic Speaker: Anna-Maria Meister (Princeton University) Local Speaker: Colin Ripley (Ryerson University, Toronto) Moderator: Richard Sommer (University of Toronto) Session Four: What can the government do? Practical Speaker: Peter Swinnen (Chief Government Architect, Brussels) Academic Speaker: Robert Kloosterman (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Local Speaker: Denis Lemieux (architecte; formerly Ministry of Culture, Comm. and Status of Women) Moderator: TBA While the symposium invites speakers from around the world to share their best practices, the backdrop of the event is Toronto, with a focus on how institutions could help foster a better more critical attitude towards the development of Canada’s largest city. This conference is a collaboration between the Office of the President and the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University.
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