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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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