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Poiesis: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation
The Poiesis symposium will take place in Cambridge on July 25-27 2012. The symposium is the culmination of a three year research project on the making and remaking of cities led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun in partnership with the BMW/Herbert Quandt and Gerda Henkel Foundations. Over three days, the international, interdisciplinary, group of [...]
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Archipelago, by Cassim Shepard
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The Urban in Unlikely Places: Evolving Trajectories
I have just returned from South Africa’s “countryside” where I had gone on a preliminary/exploratory field research. I was basically interested in mapping the architectures (and I mean buildings) that populate the country’s northernmost province, Limpopo. I ended up more fascinated by two issues. One was the extent to which goods made in urban South [...]
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Fellows
Nerea Calvillo
Principal, C+ Arquitectos
Naresh Fernandes
Editor in Chief, Time out India
Orit Halpern
Assistant Professor, Committee for Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
Haiyan Huang
Professor, School of Art and Design, Xi’an University of Technology
Monika Krause
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent
Jesse LeCavalier
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Clapperton Mavhunga
Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael McQuarrie
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California – Davis
Wolfgang Pietsch
Research Assistant, Philosophy of Science, Technical University of Munich
Cassim Shepard
Director, Urban Omnibus
Senior Fellows
Ash Amin
1931 Chair in Geography and Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge University
Richard Burdett
Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Cities and the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics
Peter Claussen
Academic Consultant and Eco-Farmer; Former Director BMW Plant Leipzig
Craig Calhoun
University Professor, New York University; President, Social Science Research Council; Director, Institute for Public Knowledge.
Manthia Diawara
University Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature and film at New York University
Gerald Frug
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Evelyn Fox Keller
Professor, History and Philosophy of Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nilufer Gole
Professor of Sociology Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Lou Kauffman
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
Bruno Latour
Professor, and Vice President for Research, Sciences Po
Klaus Mainzer
Director of the Carl von Linde-Academy, Technical University of Munich
Birgit Meyer
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam
Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Richard Sennett
University Professor, New York University; Centennial Visiting Professor, The London School of Economics
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Founding partner, Foreign office Architects