In conjunction with the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, CityX Venice, a virtual exhibition of new and recent work by leading architects and designers from around the world, opened online in May. Winka Dubbeldam, who is Miller Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture and director of the Advanced Research and Innovation (ARI) Lab, served as one of the creative directors, inviting faculty members to present examples of the design-research under way at Weitzman.
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“The Travel Industry’s Reckoning With Race and Inclusion”
Paul Farber, Weitzman faculty member and co-founder of the public art and history project Monument Lab, talks about efforts to change the way travelers of all colors understand America’s racially fraught history.
“For Mumbai to cope with frequent floods, it must see itself as a place in an estuary – not an island”
Anuradha Mathur, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, on her ongoing project to redirect the future of one of the world's great cities based on its past.
“The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond Classrooms”
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Akira Drake Rodriguez talks about the report she co-authored behind Jamaal Bowman's proposed legislation to green public schools.
“Conversations in Urban Design”
Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner talks to NYIT’s Marcella Del Signore and Karan Ambardekar about his role in the early climate movement, his immersion into ecology at Penn, and a new book on megaregions.
“I Am Effecting Lasting Change Today”
Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, shares how she, as a white person in a leadership position, is making short- and long-term changes to increase diversity and inclusion in the design disciplines.
“The Sponge Revolution: How the Chinese Communist Party is building an “ecological civilization.”
Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner describes the singular contribution of landscape architect Kongjian Yu in relation to a new government initiative.
