Advance Notice: “Cooperative Cities. Feminist, Social and Emancipatory”, 28.09.2018, The New School, NYC
Friday, September 28th, 3:00-6:30pm
The New School University Center
Room L105 (Lower Level)
63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Please join us for the launch of Volume 9 of the Journal of Design Strategies, Cooperative Cities, which provides a critical insight to the way women have conceptualized and fostered the co-production of nonhierarchical and cooperative urban practices across cities and nations. We are celebrating their work with a panel discussion involving a transgenerational cohort of women from different fields -philosophy, anthropology, strategic planning, architecture, social art, and activism- who are transforming the way we understand, approach and envision cities. In our context of continuous social and economic crisis, it is critical to emphasize the feminist, social and emancipatory agendas promoted in women’s endeavors and mobilizations which have historically change the political, organizational and spatial dynamics of cities and urban life.
Moderated by
Gabriela Rend6n
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and co-director of Parsons Graduate Urban Programs
Masoom Moitra
Activist urban planner, faculty and special projects director
at The New School Collaboratory
Organized by
Gabriela Rend6n and Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Editors of Cooperative Cities, Volume 9 Journal of Design Strategies
Sponsored by
The Stephan Weiss Lecture Series
School of Design Strategies
The Stephan Weiss Lecture Series and Journal of Design Strategies are
made possible by an endowment established by The Karan-Weiss
Foundation, Donna Karan, Gabrielle Karan, Corey Weiss, and Lisa Weiss
Featuring:
THE POLITICS OF THE COMMONS: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Silvia Federici
Philosopher, scholar, writer, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition
CULTURE, RACEAND CAPITAL: LESSONS FROM THE “LATINIZATION OF NYC”
Arlene Davila
Cultural anthropologist and author working across urban ethnography, creative economies, immigration, and geographies of inequality and race
MUNICIPALISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE IN-BETWEEN
Ana Mendez De Andes
Architect, urban planner, co-founder of the research collective Observatorio Metropolitano and advisor of f Madrid City Council
WALKING AS A PEDAGOGICALAND POLITICAL TOOL IN BRASILIA
Eduarda Aun
Strategie urban designer, architect, and co-founder of the Brasilia-based Coletivo MOB (Movimente e Ocupe)
DEMOCRATIZING ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES
Nora Elmarzouky
Cultural organizer, educator, public programs designer, and co-founder of in.site collaborative
FEMINIST URBANISM
Gabriela Lopez Dena
Architect, urbanist, fellow at the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, and founder of the Mexico City-based studio Dena