small group of architects
BIG PUBLIC DISCUSSION
We know very little about many lives.
One billion people worldwide occupy slums. Twenty-six million are displaced by war or natural disaster, including estimates of 300,000 homeless in Haiti post-earthquake. Every night in Indianapolis 3,000 residents need a meal and a place to sleep. All of them claim space and make their way. Every day. What can be learned from those we consider to be the most disadvantaged?
Join six of the small architecture BIG LANDSCAPES contributors during this ninety-minute roundtable, as they discuss issues that have arisen in their own thinking while working on the exhibition. It is anticipated that topics will include the potentials to be found: when working within severe constraints; in the intelligences of local people and self-builders; and in alternative roles for designers. It is hoped that the conversation will provide a springboard to new questions, additional works, unanticipated collaborations, and more.
Participants
Azin Valy
Architect, I-Beam Design, New York.
Bryan Finoki
Founder of Subtopia; Senior editor of Archinect; Adjunct Faculty, Woodbury University (San Diego); co-organizer, Postopolis.
Craig Wilkins
Director, Detroit Community Design Center, University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Author, The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music.
David Stairs
Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Central Michigan University; Founder, Designers Without Borders and Design-Altruism-Project blog.
Giulia Fiocca
Member, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade, Rome, Italy.
Scott Shall
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Temple University; Founder, International Design Clinic.
Moderator
Wes Janz
Guest Curator, small architecture BIG LANDSCAPES; Founder of onesmallproject, Associate Professor of Architecture, Ball State University
One billion people worldwide occupy slums. Twenty-six million are displaced by war or natural disaster, including estimates of 300,000 homeless in Haiti post-earthquake. Every night in Indianapolis 3,000 residents need a meal and a place to sleep. All of them claim space and make their way. Every day. What can be learned from those we consider to be the most disadvantaged?
Join six of the small architecture BIG LANDSCAPES contributors during this ninety-minute roundtable, as they discuss issues that have arisen in their own thinking while working on the exhibition. It is anticipated that topics will include the potentials to be found: when working within severe constraints; in the intelligences of local people and self-builders; and in alternative roles for designers. It is hoped that the conversation will provide a springboard to new questions, additional works, unanticipated collaborations, and more.
Participants
Azin Valy
Architect, I-Beam Design, New York.
Bryan Finoki
Founder of Subtopia; Senior editor of Archinect; Adjunct Faculty, Woodbury University (San Diego); co-organizer, Postopolis.
Craig Wilkins
Director, Detroit Community Design Center, University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Author, The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music.
David Stairs
Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Central Michigan University; Founder, Designers Without Borders and Design-Altruism-Project blog.
Giulia Fiocca
Member, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade, Rome, Italy.
Scott Shall
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Temple University; Founder, International Design Clinic.
Moderator
Wes Janz
Guest Curator, small architecture BIG LANDSCAPES; Founder of onesmallproject, Associate Professor of Architecture, Ball State University
A wood pavilion in Kadubedda, Sri Lanka
built primarily of materials scavenged
within walking distance of the site by students
from Ball State's CapAsia III field study program
and the University of Moratuwa (2003)