Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
Celebrate the five-year anniversary of Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism with a special event on the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings, and experimental techniques currently being used by Russia to preserve its Soviet heritage. Studio-X is pleased to welcome an esteemed roundtable to discuss the future and past of preservation within the Soviet context, featuring:
Barry Bergdoll, MoMA and Columbia Jean-Louis Cohen, NYU Yevgeniy Fiks, Artist Vitaly Komar, Artist Annette Michelson, NYU and Co-Founder of October Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia and Editor of Future Anterior
Sponsored by BROOKLYN BREWERY and IZZE SPARKLING JUICE
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
NIGHT HAUNTS: A Journey through the London Night
The famed London night: "There was a time, well over a century ago now, when it was considered one the finest Victorian inventions." Gas lighting opened up the night--rendering the darkness visible, and introducing new spaces of lawlessness and depravity. But have CCTV cameras and British Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) neutralized the night? Writer SUKHDEV SANDHU and composer ANDREW INGKAVET present a visual and sonic journey through an unfamiliar nocturnal London, encountering urban fox hunters, exorcists, cleaning crews, mini-cab drivers, sleep technicians and the Nuns of Tyburn, as they pray for the souls of Londoners.
SANDHU is a professor of English Literature at New York University, Chief Film Critic of the "Daily Telegraph," and author of "London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City." INGKAVET is a composer, filmmaker and designer. He began scoring films while working in Hong Kong as one of MTV-Asia's first VJs.
Sunday, December 7, 2008, 10:00 am-7:30 pm
Columbia University, Avery Hall
This is Newark
How can design - through physical installations, graphics, and more - help create a sense of civic identity in urban New Jersey?
The City of Newark is exploring design possibilites for a series of permanent installations to mark points of entry to the city, from its train stations and airports to its local streets and highway off-ramps. The Columbia University's Urban Landscape Lab and the City of Newark will host a 1-day design workshop to generate ideas that can expand and provoke the project's possibilities. Participants will work collaboratively to produce illustrated design proposals for public discussion in 2009. Projects will be published and exhibited at an event at Newark City Hall.
Please join us to consider how Newark can leverage its contrasting landscapes, overwhelming infrastructure, and distinctly contemporary urban condition - in short, the "terrible beauty of the 20th century" - to build and strengthen its identity and presence for the 21st century. We invite practitioners and students in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, real estate, and graphic design to participate.
Organizers:
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Urban Landscape Lab, Janette Kim.
The Division of Planning & Community Development of the City of Newark, Toni Griffin and Damon Rich.
