This Week at PennDesign - January 13, 2012

Friday, January 13
HAPPY HOUR
5:30pm, Lower Gallery

Welcome back, everyone! Please bring your IDs to participate.

Tuesday, January 17
MEGAPROJECTS: CAN WE BALANCE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL GOODS?
7-9 pm, Lower Gallery Meyerson
Host department: PennPraxis/City Planning
Co-sponsor: IUR / Annenberg Center / Arthur Ross Gallery

Featuring a number of Planning faculty, the panel is co-presented with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with the Civilians’ play In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards. (Student tickets $10).

Wednesday, January 18
WOMEN IN DESIGN AND PLANNING
Noon-1:15PM, Meyerson Hall, Room B3

This is a great networking opportunity with accomplished women leaders in design fields, including Nicole Morris Dress, AIA, LEED AP Senior Architect / Project Manager at BLT Architects, Johnette Davies Director of Historical Services at KSK Architects Planners Historians, Nancy O’Donnell, ASLA, Director, Philadelphia Green, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,Rebecca Wetzler, Human Services Planning Coordinator, Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management. Preregistration is requested; a light lunch will be available to those who have registered in advance.

Thursday, January 19
OPENING RECEPTION: FINE ARTS UNDERGRADUATE JURIED EXHIBITION
5pm, Addams Hall, 36th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia

PENNDESIGN: ON THE ROAD KICKS OFF
6PM, Meyerson Hall Upper Gallery

Please join Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor and Assistant Dean Richard Fitzgerald in Philadelphia as we share news of exciting developments at the School of Design. Our conversation will focus on how to develop the resources necessary to support the PennDesign of the next ten years. Reception to follow

Friday, January 20
MUSA BROWN BAG LUNCH: Fellowship Opportunity
12-1pm, Meyerson G-12 (Penn IUR Conference Room)

The Sustainability Science Fellowship is a new program of the US Forest Service Philadelphia Field Station and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.  Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, and Phillip Rodbell, Acting Coordinator for the new U.S. Forest Service Philadelphia Field Station will be on hand to meet and discuss the opportunity with students.

Monday, January 23              
FIRST YEAR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENING
Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall
Host Department:  Fine Arts

Friday, January 27 
ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY SYMPOSIUM
1:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Co-sponsor: GPIC/Penn State

• Thomas Abel, Anthropologist/Systems Ecologist. Assistant Professor, Zu Chi University, Taiwan
• William W. Braham. Associate Professor/Director of Master of Environmental Building Design program, PennDesign
• Dean Hawkes, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge/Founding Member, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies
• David Leatherbarrow, Professor & Interim Chair of Architecture, PennDesign
• Vivian Loftness, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architecture /Director, TC Chan Center for Energy Studies and Building Simulation, PennDesign
• Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor, Harvard GSD
• John Thackara. Director, Netherlands Design Institute
• Franca Trubiano, Assistant Professor of Architecture, PennDesign
• Richard Wesley, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, PennDesign
• Dan Willis, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
• Simos Yannas. Director, MSc/MArch in Sustainable Environmental Design, Architectural Association, London.

Free for students/ $25 for professionals (registration required).

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Tuesday, January 17
"THE DEMONSTRATORS ALSO WAITED”
6:30-8:30PM, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 

"The Demonstrators Also Waited" is an evening conversation with Allan Sekula and Kaja Silverman, made possible through the generous support of the Department of the History of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art.  

Tuesday, January 24
Penn IUR Public Interest Event
Urban Book Talk: “Women's Health and the World's Cities”
5:30pm – 7PM, Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
Co-sponsor: Penn Press and the School of Nursing

The volume editors and contributors of Women’s Health and the World’s Cities (Penn Press, 2011) will discuss the key issues presented in the book and their impact on research agendas. Speakers include Afaf I. Meleis, Dean of the School of Nursing; Jeane Ann Grisso, Professor of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine; Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at University of Pennsylvania; Lynn Sommers, Director, Penn’s School of Nursing Center for Global Women’s Health, and Eugenie Birch, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research.

Friday, January 27
FINANCIAL STRESS IN GOVERNMENTS: THE ISSUES, CHALLENGES & POLITICS OF MOVING FORWARD
8AM-6PM, Huntsman Hall, 8th Floor
Co-sponsor: FELS Institute for Government

Penn IUR is proud to host this workshop, centered on the economic forecast for local governments and the Financially Distressed Municipalities Act of 1987. This event will feature such speakers and commentators as John Bear, State Representative, PA House of Representatives; Bill Brandt, CEO, DSI Civic; and Mark Zandi, CEO, Moody’s Economy.com and Chief Economist, Moddy’s Analytics; and David Thornburgh, Executive Director, Fels Institute of Government.

 Through February 28
"THE DIVIDED SELF"
1-6PM Thurs-Sat, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 

On view in the Slought Foundation galleries from January 12-February 28, 2012, the exhibition has been organized by artist and educator Huma Mulji, and features work by Hamra Abbas, Bani Abidi, David Alesworth and Adnan Madani, Amina El-Adroos, Ismet Khawaja, Basir Mahmod, Umber Majeed, and Rashid Rana. Presented in conjunction with the MFA Program in Fine Arts at PennDesign, with whom Slought is partnering in 2012 on a series of visits and projects by international mid-career artists.

The University is closed Monday, January 16 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Save the date! The PennDesign Safety Fair is Monday, January 23. Details to follow.

Jane Irish: War Is Not What You Think on view January 17 – March 29, 2012 at the La Salle University Art Museum and the Connelly Library.

Opening reception, January 18, 2012, 5-7 p.m. at the La Salle University Art Museum.