This conference reflects on #UrbanismBeyondCorona, a series of Instagram posts initiated by the Urban Works Agency and the Experimental History Project at CCA. From June to July 2020, 118 architects, urbanists and scholars of the built environment offered predictions, warnings, gifts, hacks, instruments, prompts, and questions that reflected on the role designers and urban actors can play in shaping cities after Covid-19. This conference will begin with a multiple, concurrent roundtable discussions involving series participants connected by theme, and conclude with a keynote address by Giovanna Borasi. This conference is co-presented by the Urban Works Agency and the Experimental History Project as part of the After Hope program at the Asian Art Museum.

Part 1: Roundtable Discussions
Monday 11/16, 9-10:30am PST, at the Zoom link listed here.
A series of concurrent sessions. Solidarity: Sarah Hirschman, Cheng-Luen Hsueh, Curt Gambetta, Jia Gu (moderator), Quilian Riano, Brian P. McGrath, Aisling O’Carroll, and Tommy Yang. Power: Zarinah Agnew, Neeraj Bhatia (moderator), Jordan H. Carver, Peggy Deamer, Jeffrey Johnson, Nancy Levinson, and Susanne Schindler. Iterative Urbanism: Mona El Khafif, Chris Falliers, Christoph Heinemann, Jennifer W. Leung, Agustina Martire, Michael Piper, Elihu Rubin, Brett Snyder, Antje Steinmuller (moderator), Luciana Varkulja, Kathy Velikov, and Alex Yuen. Public Space and Collectivity: Petros Babasikas, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Reto Geiser, Gabriel Kozlowski, Anna-Maria Meister, Mariana Mogilevich, Marcus Owens, Mauro Parravicini, Chris Roach (moderator), Geoffrey Thun, and Renée Tribble. Justice: Ross Exo Adams, Javier Arbona, Aaron Cayer, Irene Cheng (moderator), Julia Grinkrug, Nahyun Hwang, Keith Krumwiede, Jacob R. Moore, Giulia Scotto, and Nora Wendl. Resources and Territories: María Arquero de Alarcón, Dan Handel, Derek Hoeferlin, Janette Kim (moderator), Juan Lopez-Aranguren, Clare Lyster, Rosalea Monacella, Eric Wycoff Rogers, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, and June Williamson. Biopolitics: Lori A. Brown, Fionn Byrne, James Graham, Joyce Hwang, Nicholas Pevzner, Roger Sherman, and Marina Otero Verzier. Risk and Normalization: Galo Canizares, Mari Fujita, Nataly Gattegno, Jungin Kim, Karen Kubey, Padma Maitland, Eric W. Rodenbeck, and Ozayr Saloojee.

Part 2: Keynote Lecture by Giovanna Borasi and Conversation
Monday 11/16, 6:00-7:30pm PST.
Please pre-register for a Zoom link here.
Giovanna Borasi, Canadian Centre for Architecture, followed by conversation with Janette Kim, Irene Cheng, Antje Steinmuller, Neeraj Bhatia and Chris Roach.

Architect, editor, and curator, Giovanna Borasi joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2005, first as Curator, Contemporary Architecture (2005-10), then as Chief Curator (2014-19). She has been Director of the CCA since January 2020. Borasi’s work explores alternative ways of practicing and evaluating architecture, considering the impact of contemporary environmental, political, and social issues on urbanism and the built environment. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, worked as an editor of Lotus International (1998–2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000–2004) and was Deputy Editor in Chief of Abitare (2011–2013). Borasi’s latest curatorial project is a three-part documentary film series that considers changing definitions of home and homelessness as a result of urban and economic pressures. The first iteration, What it takes to make a home, premiered last year in New York and will continue circulating at film festivals worldwide. In February, it was screened at the 58th Commission for Social Development at the United Nations Headquarters.