PSPD 2011 Spring Lecture Series
Monday, Jan 24, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
Pratt Institute's Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development are hosting a dynamic lecture series this spring, featuring local leaders and internationally renowned practitioners discussing current issues in planning, preservation and the environment. Free and open to the public, lectures are on Fridays, February through April, 2011.
Questions? Contact: prattpspd@gmail.com
5:30 pm: RECEPTION
6:00 - 7:30: LECTURE (Followed by a moderated audience Q&A)
Pratt Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street, Room 213
LECTURE SCHEDULE
FEBRUARY 4: World Heritage Sites, Global Climate Change and Social Conflict with sociologist, author and professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, Diane Barthel-Bouchier
FEBRUARY 11: NYC Green Infrastructure Plan with Carter Strickland, Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection
FEBRUARY 18: World Monuments Fund at Babylon: Preparing the City of Hammurabi for the 21st Century with World Monuments Fund Executive Vice President (and Pratt faculty member) Lisa Ackerman and WMF Babylon Project Coordinator Jeff Allen
FEBRUARY 25: Waterfront Action Plan- Maritime and Industrial Uses and Areas with Andrew Genn, Vice President, New York City Economic Development Corporation
MARCH 3: New Ways to Smear the Street with Our Extended Epistemology with Paul Guzzardo, a lawyer and media activist/artist who looks at the relationship between emerging digital information and public space**
MARCH 4: The Problems of Preserving Paradise with Jorge Rigau, leading Puerto Rican preservationist and Founder of the New School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
MARCH 11: Typologies of Social Engagement: Redefining Architectural Practice with architect Jonathan Kirschenfeld
MARCH 25: Suspended Mid-City with Whitney Grant, architect and member of the Jackson Community Design Center
APRIL 1: Vision 2020 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan with Mike Marrella, Project Director for the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, New York City Department of City Planning
APRIL 8: Cultural Heritage: Roots, Relations, Rationales, Rights, and Redemption with Carsten Paludan-Müller, director of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research
APRIL 15: Redefining Artistic Advocacy with Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Slought Foundation
APRIL 29: New York State Climate Action Plan with Alan Belensz, Director of the Office of Climate Change with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
** Taking place at Pratt's Brooklyn Campus (61 St. James Place, Higgins Hall Auditorium)
