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|  ECOGRAM  |  III  AFRICA

SEPTEMBER 20th- OCTOBER 01st, 2010

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

The Committee on Global Thought


ECOGRAM III: Africa is the third annual conference in a series that examines sustainability in the built environment and in architectural education chaired by Ioanna Theocharopoulou, GSAPP + Parsons the New School for Design, and Mitchell Joachim, NYU. It will address questions relating to environmental and social sustainability through the lens of Africa.


Conference Chairs:

Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. & Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D.


Support:

Dean Mark Wigley

Benjamin Prosky, Director of Special Events, GSAPP


|  PROGRAM  |

Monday, 9/20

Film Screening in Avery 114 12:30-2PM

Burning in the Sun

(Cambria Matlow, Morgan Robinson, United States / Mali, 2009, 83 minutes)

Co-presented with African Film Festival, Inc. / www.africanfilmny.org

 

Monday, 9/20, 6:30pm

Debate

CULTURAL ECOLOGY: Art and Culture as Catalysts for Sustainable Development in Africa

Faustin Linyekula, Dancer, Choreographer, Founder of Studios Kabako, Kisangani, DR Congo, in conversation with Okwui Enwezor, curator, writer, and scholar, New York, and with Mamadou Diouf, Professor of History, Director, Institute for African Studies, Columbia University. Co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française, New York, as part of the Crossing the Line festival / www.fiaf.org

 

Thursday, 9/23

Debate + Exhibition Opening

Off-site event at Studio X, 7PM

LISTENING THERE - SCENES FROM GHANA

A multi-media project by SideProjects - Mabel O. Wilson and Peter Tolkin

Discussion with Felicity Scott, GSAPP and Ikem Stanley Okoye, Art History University of Delaware. Moderated by Mabel Wilson, GSAPP.

The exhibition will be open to the public Mon-Fri, 10AM-6PM, from 11/23-11/9 at Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York

 

Monday, 9/27, 6:30pm

Debate

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: Design and Entrepreneurship

Diébédo Francis Kéré, Architect, Berlin / Burkina Faso; Robert Mbom, Producer of Sustainable African Woods, Ngambe Inc.; John Mutter; Bamboo Bike Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University and Richard Plunz, GSAPP. Moderated by Ioanna Theocharopoulou GSAPP + Parsons the New School for Design and Mitchell Joachim, NYU

 

Wednesday, 9/29, 6:30pm

Debate

GLOBAL AID IN AFRICA: The Road Ahead in a Changing Economic Climate

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor of Economics/ Chair, Committee on Global Thought; Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda/ Former Chief Economist, African Development Bank and others

Organized in collaboration with the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University / http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_aid_in_africa/

 

Friday, 10/1,10AM-6PM

Conference

CITIES AND ECO-CRISES

Experts and activists will address acute challenges facing cities such as environments polluted by war and destructive development, environmental refugees and massive floods. Curated by the Committee on Global Thought and Saskia Sassen, Columbia University. http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_eco_crises/

 

Rachel Armstrong, Dana Fisher, Lindsey Hoshaw, Klaus Jacob, Greg Lindsay, Richard Matthew, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael Pelken, Irwin Redlener, Ties Rijcken, Amit Sanjiv, Shiv Someshwar, Noah Tulle, Arthur H. Westing.

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