In
Honour
of
Andrew
Levitt,
celebrating
the
legacy
of
a
Professor
Emeritus
dedicated
to
teaching
on
care,
and
with
care.
Please
join
us
for
Cultural
Districts,
the
lecture
will
be
held
from
6:30pm
-
8:00pm
in
the
Main
Lecture
Hall
at
the
Waterloo
School
of
Architecture.
The
lecture
will
be
feature
panelists
Tura
Cousins
Wilson,
SOCA,
Cheryll
Case,
CP
Planning
and
moderator:
Linda
Zhang,
Waterloo
Architecture.
This
is
the
second
in
a
series
of
five
lectures
on
the
topic
of
maintenance.
Praxes
of
Care
asks,
“what
is
an
architecture
of
care?”
Over
four
terms–Fall
2021
to
Winter
2023–a
series
of
conversations
will
bring
together
two
or
more
architects,
designers,
researchers,
artists,
activists,
and
care
workers
to
discuss
care
processes
according
to
the
themes
of
Attention,
Action,
Communication,
and
Maintenance.
The
series
is
curated
by
faculty,
staff,
and
representatives
of
student
groups:
Treaty
Lands
Global
Stories,
Bridge,
and
the
Sustainability
Collective.
Recent
calls
for
change
have
shifted
the
discipline
toward
the
underlying
social
and
ecological
processes
enabled
by
the
production
of
architecture.
By
listening
to
and
learning
about
care
practices
from
interdisciplinary
perspectives,
we
can
begin
to
reshape
the
discipline
of
architecture
into
a
form
of
care.
WINTER
2023:
MAINTENANCE
In
our
ongoing
Speaker
Series,
this
semester
we
investigate
maintenance
within
a
praxis
of
care.
In
her
thesis,
Care
as
Architectural
Practice,
Waterloo
alumni
Brenda
Reid
describes
maintenance
as
the
“ongoing
practice
of
caring
that
fixes
and
mends
along
the
way.”
Yet
she
acknowledges
that
the
act
of
repair
is
also
an
act
of
creation
that
introduces
something
new.
Maintenance
work
is
often
unseen
labour,
operating
on
peripheries
and
within
shadows.
Yet
it
serves
as
the
backbone
of
our
society
by
providing
the
essential
labour
required
for
our
social,
economic,
and
logistical
systems
to
function
effectively.
While
the
pandemic
forced
us
to
reconsider
the
notion
of
essential
labour
as
care
maintenance,
it
also
asked
us
to
find
ways
of
maintaining
our
social
programs,
our
structures
that
allow
for
horizontal
collaboration,
our
identities
and
languages
rooted
in
land-based
knowledge
systems,
and
our
desire
for
stronger
ties
of
solidarity.
Working
from
an
ethic
of
care,
we
are
asked
to
consider
the
role
of
maintenance
as
architectural
practice.
In
this
series
we
address
maintenance
from
this
perspective
and
consider
our
role
in
the
preservation
of
social
systems,
cultural
districts,
community
engagement,
material
landscapes,
and
the
narratives
we
create
about
our
world.
The
lecture
series
committee
is:
Tara
Bissett,
Adrian
Blackwell,
Jaliya
Fonseka,
Marie-Paule
Macdonald,
Beth
Vince,
Wendy
Yuan,
Joel
Wan,
and
Victor
Zagabe.
Former
members
involved
in
planning
this
series:
Brenda
Reid
and
Mayuri
Paranthahan.
Brenda
Reid's
recent
graduate
thesis,
CARE
As
Architectural
Practice,
acts
as
the
foundational
framework
for
the
series,
including
its
four-part
structure:
attention,
action,
communication
and
maintenance.
The
four
linked
posters
for
the
series
are
designed
by
Julia
Nakanishi
Paxes
of
Care
is
part
of
the
Arriscraft
Canada
Brick
Speaker
Series