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Tea & Bikkies:
January 29 @ 12:30 PM – Tea & Bikkies: RP and Material Updates
Matt and William will share new RP and Woodshop updates for the Spring semester.
FRIDAY COMMUNITY HOURS:
January 29, 2021 @ 1:30 PM CT – Let’s Not Go Back to Normal hosted by Trudy Watt
HOUSING SYMPOSIUM: A Series of Talks About Affordable Housing in the Milwaukee Area
January 29, 2021 @ 1:30 PM CT – Kickoff event: Lecture by Richard “Rocky” Marcoux hosted by Graduate Student Bridget Greuel
Mr. Marcoux, the retired Commissioner of the Milwaukee Department of City Development, will present an overview of the following:
History of Affordable Housing in Milwaukee and the United States
How Jobs, Transportation, and Development Affects Affordable Housing
City of Milwaukee Programs and Partnerships with the Community
Financing of Affordable Housing
The Role of Race in Affordable Housing
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.
Mr. Marcoux highly recommends reading “The Color of Law”, by Richard Rothstein. Rothstein will discuss his book two days earlier, information below.
In January 2021, WASTE MATTERS: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes was published by Routledge. Associate Professor Nikole Bouchard edited and contributed to this book project which presents a collection of design ideas, essays, interviews and interventions that engage and reimagine the full spectrum of material and spatial refuse. The book’s contributors are a diverse group of designers who come from a range of creative disciplines and backgrounds. This fresh set of voices will expand the ways in which we understand, interpret, transform and value waste, leaving future generations with optimistic and imaginative design outlooks. This edition of “Let’s Not Go Back to Normal: WASTE” will share bits and pieces of the book to inspire an interactive design charrette where participants will work with what’s at hand and take on the tabula scripta that surround them. BYOW(aste)!
In advance of the session, please read: PENTAGRAM DESIGN_Pentagram Papers No. 32_No Waste.
HOUSING SYMPOSIUM:
February 5, 2021 @ 1:30 PM CT – Housing Symposium – Panel Discussion and Q&A hosted by Graduate Student Bridget Greuel
Panelists will present an overview of their organization and how they address affordable housing.
May yer Thao, Assistant Deputy Director of Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
James Mathy, Housing Division Administrator, Milwaukee County
Ken Barbeau, Director of Community Programs & Services, Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee
Sam Leichtling, City Planning Manager, City of Milwaukee
Q&A will follow.
February 12, 2021 @ 1:30 PM CT– Housing Symposium – Panel Discussion and Q&A hosted by Graduate Student Bridget Greuel
Panelists will present an overview of their organization and how they address affordable housing in the Milwaukee area.
Beth Van Gorp, Habitat for Humanity
Deatra Kemp, Manager of Homebuyer Counseling, ACTS Housing
Carl Quindel, Manager of Strong Blocks
Pastor Karen Hagen, Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church and Divine Intervention Ministries for the Homeless
Q&A will follow.
Learning Outcomes:
1. What, exactly, is affordable housing?
2. Does affordable housing mean home ownership or is rental a path forward?
3. What is currently being done to address this issue in the city of Milwaukee? Are there overlaps between organizations?
4. How do people in need find this help?
5. What works best?
6. What has not worked?
7. What still needs to be done?
8. What role should architecture play?
February 12, 2021 @ 3 PM CT – Speed Mentoring with Architecture Professionals hosted by WID, WIDs + AIA Wisconsin
ON DECK:
February 5, 2021 @ 3 PM CT – Portfolio Fundamentals with Christopher T. Wood
February 12, 2021 @ 3 PM CT – Speed Mentoring with Architecture Professionals hosted by WID, WIDs, SARUP, AIA Wisconsin, NOMAS, WiscoNOMA, WID Madison, AIAS
Join us for a Virtual Speed Mentoring event connecting students with professionals in Architecture from around the state of Wisconsin in a fun, fast-paced, virtual platform. Each match will last for 6 minutes for a total of 10 sessions. Sample questions will be provided to spark conversations. Don’t miss the opportunity to share or hear valuable advice and create relationships!
All students and professionals are encouraged to attend. Registration is required.
February 19, 2021 @ 4 PM CT – Tea and Bikkies – SURPRISE THANK YOU PARTY for Larry
Join us to surprise Larry with a new award: SARUP Good Neighbor Award that honors those who have helped create a caring atmosphere within SARUP. During this SURPRISE event, we will share stories of how Larry impacted our lives and wish him well for his future endeavors. Make sure you don’t ruin the surprise by inviting Larry.
RECOMMENDED BY FACULTY:
January 26, 2021 @ 5 PM CT– Webinar – Infrastructures and Ecologies hosted by UVA, featuring 2019-2020 Urban Edge Fellow Jose Ibarra
Projecting Fellows brings together the 2019-2020 class of fellows from American architecture schools to explore a cross-section of emerging interests in the discipline and the vehicle of the fellowship project. Each year, several architecture schools nationwide name fellows to join their programs and develop an intensive research or teaching project during a short-term appointment. With the fellowship comes some combination of project support, cross-pollination between research and teaching, and a platform with which to present and exhibit the work. Commonly selected via a national call for proposals, fellowship projects are dually indicative of emerging interests in academia and evolving institutional agendas.
While each school supports the development and dissemination of fellowship work, no comprehensive venue for dialogue between fellows has taken shape. Leveraging the new normal of virtual engagement, Projecting Fellows creates a discursive platform, inviting fellows to share their work and to address emergent directions in architectural discourse. The paradigm shifts of 2020 make such dialogue across geographic boundaries and institutional lines more critical than ever. Projecting Fellows will address the meta-project of the architectural fellowship – its role, its curation, and its consequences in shaping the discipline.
January 27, 2021 @ 5 PM CT – Lecture by Richard Rothstein: THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America hosted by SCI-Arc
Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems – it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy in the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited from participating. Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape
February 17, 2021 @ 5 PM CT – Lecture by Tatiana Bilbao hosted by SCI-Arc
February 18, 2021 @ 5:30 PM CT – Lecture by Chris T. Cornelius hosted by Yale School of Architecture
SCHOLARSHIPS:
February 1, 2021 – Application Deadline – ZGF Scholarship Fund
ZGF Architects is a design firm with an intentionally diverse portfolio including healthcare and research facilities, academic buildings, mixed-use developments, corporate campuses, museums, transportation facilities, and eco-districts.
Applicants must be going into their final year of study of either architecture, interior, urban, or landscape design to able to apply. Students should display a commitment to their craft and a dedication to personal development in their chosen field.
RECORDED LECTURES:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2xuPKQe6rq-yWcqjpwa2KoRjCcdJt8wk
