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ECOGRAM III: Africa is the third annual conference in a series that examines sustainability in the built environment and in architectural education chaired by Ioanna Theocharopoulou, GSAPP + Parsons the New School for Design, and Mitchell Joachim, NYU, with the generous support of Dean Mark Wigley, and the assistance of Benjamin Prosky, Director of Special Events at GSAPP.

Biographical Information on Ecogram Curators | Ecogram I | Ecogram: Iron Designer | Ecogram II

ECOGRAM III: Africa

September 2010
GSAPP, Columbia University

Monday, September 20, 2010
Film Screening: Burning in the Sun

Room 114, Avery Hall 12:30-2PM

(Cambria Matlow, Morgan Robinson, United States / Mali, 2009, 83 minutes)

Co-presented with African Film Festival, Inc. / www.africanfilmny.org

Monday, September 20, 2010
Debate: CULTURAL ECOLOGY: Art and Culture as Catalysts for Sustainable Development in Africa

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30pm

Faustin Linyekula, Dancer, Choreographer, Founder of Studios Kabako, Kisangani, DR Congo, in conversation with Okwui Enwezor, curator, writer, and scholar, New York, and with Mamadou Diouf, Professor of History, Director, Institute for African Studies, Columbia University. Co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française, New York, as part of the Crossing the Line festival / www.fiaf.org

Thursday, September 23, 2010
Debate + Exhibition Opening: LISTENING THERE - SCENES FROM GHANA

Off-site event at Studio X, 7PM

A multi-media project by SideProjects - Mabel O. Wilson and Peter Tolkin

Discussion with Felicity Scott, GSAPP and Ikem Stanley Okoye, Art History University of Delaware. Moderated by Mabel Wilson, GSAPP.

The exhibition will be open to the public Mon-Fri, 10AM-6PM, from 11/23-11/9 at Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York

Monday, September 27, 2010
Debate: SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: Design and Entrepreneurship

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30pm

Diébédo Francis Kéré, Architect, Berlin / Burkina Faso; Robert Mbom, Producer of Sustainable African Woods, Ngambe Inc.; John Mutter; Bamboo Bike Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University and Richard Plunz, GSAPP. Moderated by Ioanna Theocharopoulou GSAPP + Parsons the New School for Design and Mitchell Joachim, NYU

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Debate: GLOBAL AID IN AFRICA: The Road Ahead in a Changing Economic Climate

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30pm

Paul Isenman
Independent Consultant in International Trade and Development

Louis Kasekende
Deputy Governor

Bank of Uganda

Joseph Stiglitz
University Professor of Economics

Department of Economics
Columbia University

Organized in collaboration with the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University / cgt.columbia.edu

Friday, October 1, 2010
Conference: CITIES AND ECO-CRISES

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 10AM-6PM

Experts and activists will address acute challenges facing cities such as environments polluted by war and destructive development, environmental refugees and massive floods. Curated by the Committee on Global Thought and Saskia Sassen, Columbia University.

Rachel Armstrong, Dana Fisher, Lindsey Hoshaw, Klaus Jacob, Greg Lindsay, Richard Matthew, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael Pelken, Irwin Redlener, Ties Rijcken, Amit Sanjiv, Shiv Someshwar, Noah Tulle, Arthur H. Westing. Cosponsors: ISERP, CGT / cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_eco_crises