In Honour of Andrew Levitt, celebrating the legacy of a Professor Emeritus dedicated to teaching on care, and with care.
Please
join
us
for
To
Life—L’Chaim:
From
Tambacounda
(Senegal)
to
Babyn
Yar
(Ukraine)
a
lecture
featuring
panelists:
Manuel
Hertz,
Manuel
Herz
Architects
Robert
Jan
van
Pelt,
Waterloo
Architecture
Moderator:
Marie-Paule
Macdonald,
Waterloo
Architecture
This
is
the
sixth
in
a
series
of
six
lectures
on
the
topic
of
communication.
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.
FALL 2022: COMMUNICATION
In
our
ongoing
Speaker
Series,
this
semester
we
investigate
communication
within
a
praxis
of
care.
As
Berenice
Fisher
and
Joan
Tronto
point
out,
care
involves
two-way
interaction
between
care-givers
and
care-receivers
and
this
communication
is
fraught
with
imbalances
of
power.
Architecture
is
a
discipline
that
cares
for
the
organization
of
material
spaces
designed
for
human
use,
but
often
there
is
insufficient
care
for
the
future
inhabitants
of
a
building
as
a
result
of
poor
communication.
In
order
to
make
architecture
that
facilitates
and
supports
caring
relationships
between
its
users,
special
attention
must
be
paid
to
the
exchange
of
information
between
architects
as
care-givers
and
building
inhabitants
as
care-receivers.
This
communication
can
be
overt
and
very
loud,
or
it
can
be
barely
audible,
expressing
itself
through
other
senses,
such
as
touch
or
vision.
It
also
can
act
directly
between
the
designer
and
future
user
or
it
can
be
mediated
by
government
regulations
or
market
practices
that
place
limitations
and
norms
on
the
design
of
architecture,
creating
negative
and
even
violent
effects
on
its
inhabitants.
Within
this
fall
series
we
will
discuss
protest,
advocacy,
empowerment,
investigation
and
listening
as
different
forms
of
care
communication,
each
necessary
to
create
economically,
socially,
and
ecologically
equitable
built
environments
for
all.
The
lecture
series
committee
is:
Tara
Bissett,
Adrian
Blackwell,
Amanda
Dudnik,
Jaliya
Fonseka,
Marie-Paule
Macdonald,
Beth
Vince,
Wendy
Yuan,
Joel
Wan,
Victor
Zagabe.
Former
members
involved
in
planning
this
series:
Brenda
Reid,
Julie
Dring,
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
Accessibility:
Waterloo
Architecture
is
committed
to
achieving
accessibility
for
persons
with
disabilities
who
are
attending
the
event.
Closed
Captioning
will
be
available
during
online
events.
For
accommodation
questions
and
requests,
please
contact
us
in
advance
of
the
event
at
adudnik@uwaterloo.ca.
For
more
information
on
this
series
and
other
events
presented
by
Waterloo
Architecture,
please
visit
waconnect.ca
or
follow
us
@waterloo_architecture.
If
you
enjoy
this
lecture
series
and
would
like
to
help
the
School
of
Architecture
continue
to
provide
similar
education
activities
and
engagement
opportunities,
please
visit
our
support
page.
Thank
you
for
your
dedication
to
our
students
and
to
our
School!