Architecture & Design NOW Series: Catherine Hamel

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Architecture & Design NOW Series: Catherine Hamel
6 pm, October 22, 2018
Room L1060, LINC Building
Free admission, everyone welcome!

BUILDING ACTIVISM: THE ARCHITECT AS FACILITATOR

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, or environmental change. Within the range such action takes, this lecture grapples with the use of the built environment to facilitate engagement.Activism in design, not the designer as activist, is the focus framed by exploring spaces of transformation that arise as opportunity when the architect is framed as facilitator.

Catherine Hamel is an associate professor of architecture in the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada. Her interests lie in the active principles of architecture as instruments of change. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Hamel’s themes investigated to date include identity and estrangement in the context of post-war reconstruction and exile; memory and the voicing of political experiences in the public realm. Her current research explores restorative development and the ability to activate space and its inhabitants towards a more just society. What agitates her is not the sides people take, but the lines they draw in order to be able to take them.

Image courtesy of the speaker.

Room or Area: 
L1060

While on-campus, Catherine Hamel will also facilitate an information session on the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design's (EVDS) graduate programs at 9:30 am, October 23 in W812.


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