In Honour of Andrew Levitt, celebrating the legacy of a Professor Emeritus dedicated to teaching on care, and with care.
Please
join
us
online
for
Surveillance,
violence,
and
truth
an
online
lecture
featuring
panelists:
Shourideh
C.
Molavi,
Forensic
Architecture
Alison
Killing,
Killing
Architects
Moderated
by:
Anwar
Jaber,
University
of
Waterloo
School
of
Architecture
This
is
the
fourth
in
a
series
of
five
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.