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“Bordering On” Symposium
February 23, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
The LSU School of Architecture will host the “Bordering On” Symposium February 23, 2019 at the Manship Theater, Baton Rouge.
Program
Opening Remarks:
(9:30 – 10:00)
Angeliki Sioli and Kris Palagi, Assistant Professors of Architecture
Alkis Tsolakis, Dean of the LSU College of Art and Design
Keynote Lecture: Unwalling Citizenship
(10:00 – 11:00)
Fonna Forman, political theorist, UC San Diego
Moderators: Angeliki Sioli and Kris Palagi
Coffee Break
Session 1 : In the Border…
(11:15 – 12:45)
Moderator: Ursula Emery McClure, Architect and Professor, LSU School of Architecture
“Reflections on geographies of adjacency and relationality: Borders, bordering, and the city”
Eugene McCann, geography, Simon Fraser University
“The Plank Road Project: Addressing Racial and Spatial Stratification in Baton Rouge”
Christopher J. Tyson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority
“Green Fingers of the City: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Greenways in Urban Form”
Nicholas Serrano, Landscape Historian
Lunch Break
Session 2 : Through the Border…
(1:45 – 3:15)
Moderator: Bob Zwirn, Architect and Professor, LSU School of Architecture
“Borders and Imaginary Passages”
Sofia Dona, Artist and Architect
“Negotiating Conflict: Bordering Practices in Beirut”
Dr. Mohamad Hafeda, Artist
“Walls Project: Create, Cultivate, Reactivate”
Casey Phillips, Director of the Walls Project
Coffee break
Session 3 : Beyond the Border…
(3:30 – 5:00)
Moderator: Paul Holmquist, Assistant Professor, LSU School of Architecture
“Architectures of Displacement and Forms of Non-Belonging”
Dr Nishat Awan, Architect
“From Camps to Gated Communities: Multiple Forms of Borders & Practices of Bordering in Turkey”
Yaşar Adnan Adanali, Urbanist
“Building Community”
Haley Blakeman, Center for Planning Excellence
Coffee break
Keynote Ampersand: Ampersand; Mapping the Complexity of the Border
(5:15 – 6:30)
Dr. Marc Schoonderbeek, Architect, School of Architecture, TU Delft
Moderator: Marwan Ghandour, Director, LSU School of Architecture
