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Stefano Harney on “study”

Last week’s whiteboard (Production of Space, Chapter 4)

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Alternatives to the Present Conference

Source: http://architecturemps.com/cleveland/

A conference on urban alternatives, which can be attended via Skype or even a recorded talk, speaking to some of the issues we wrestle with. An opportunity for a paper or papers from one or many of us together…?

LSE Writing for Research – page of links to advice posts

Some useful points on writing for research, including dissertations as big book style or papers. Nice resource!

Progressive Geographies

I’ve linked to some of these before, but the LSE has now put together a page of links to their advice posts – Writing for Research.

There are lots more links and some discussions archived here.

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BP visits Elliott Bay for Michael Hardt

Speaking on his new book Assembly. What could be the capacity of the multitude to self manage??

Spaces of Struggle 2017

Spaces of Struggle 2017 | A Mini-Conference on Radical Planning

——————–October 11, 2017  |  Denver, Colorado ——————–
A free mini-conference directly preceding the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference

Website: radicalplanning.wordpress.com
Conference contact: sos.radplan@gmail.com

While planning offers hope for better cities, radical scholars and planners have exposed a troubled history of the complicity of planning in perpetuating spatialized inequity, injustice, and domination.  This mini-conference addresses both the theoretical and practical aspects of an invigorated contemporary radical planning agenda, posing critical questions in pursuit of better ways forward. Inspired by the first Spaces of Struggle held in 2016 in Portland, Oregon, this year’s mini-conference offers a space of exchange for the many voices who believe radical practice and scholarship are crucial to understanding and challenging mainstream systems and practices.

We assemble doctoral students, scholars and faculty from across the globe, as well as activists, artists, and community representatives. Spaces of Struggle is a commentary on and complement to ACSP 2017 events, activities and presentations. While we welcome a variety of critical and radical perspectives, proposals should engage directly with the histories, theories, and practices of urban planning.  Applicants will be selected and organized into panels and roundtable sessions based on the relevance of their proposal to the conference themes and the potential for dialogue among participants.

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Submission deadline: May 1, 2017

Paper Panel Sessions: These sessions will consist of panels of three to four scholarly papers addressing different themes or concentrations in radical planning. Presenters will have 15-minutes to read or discuss their paper, followed by audience questions and discussion.

To apply to present a paper, please submit a 250-word abstract proposal outlining (1) the subject of the paper and your research approach (community project, research project, dissertation project, etc.), and (2) how it intersects with other themes and issues of radical planning.  Include 3 keywords.

Special Topic Roundtable Discussions: These less structured sessions will be organized around themes or specific topics that emerge from both the paper and roundtable submissions. Three to five discussants will have 5-minutes to introduce how their scholarship intersects with radical planning and then engage the audience in an open conversation.

To apply to participate as a discussant in a roundtable discussion, please submit a 250-word statement of interest. The statement should (1) describe how you position your research, activism and/or community experience within the themes and issues of radical planning, and (2) conclude with one or two specific questions for discussion. The questions that will shape our discussion will be drawn directly from selected panelist submissions.

Please submit your application to sos.radplan@gmail.com by midnight on Monday, May 1 with the subject line “Space of Struggle 2017: application”.

Include your full name, affiliation and position, and contact information. You may apply to present at both the paper and roundtable sessions but will be limited to one presentation. Selected presenters will be notified by mid-June. Participants will be required to submit their conference papers or discussion outline by the end of September 2017.

Statement on Accessibility and Accommodation: In keeping with radical values and positions, we are dedicated to working with our colleagues and communities to find reasonable accommodations whenever possible to facilitate alternative presentation or participation formats for those who may face barriers due to political, financial, medical, ability or other accessibility concerns and restrictions. This may include but is not limited to the use of digital technologies or presentations read by proxy.

Suggested topics:

Radical planning movements and practices

• Radical practice, policy, and professionals
• Anarchist, socialist, feminist, and/or queer planning
• Direct action and social movements
• Informality and insurgency across the globe

Radical planning issues and themes

• Dissensus, democracy, and agonistic pluralism
• White supremacy, racism, and xenophobia
• Colonialism, migration, and indigeneity
• Neoliberalization/market fundamentalism
• Financialization
• Gentrification, race, eviction, and displacement
• Policing, law, and the State
• Technology, software, and innovation
• Labor, energy, and work
• Intersectionality and identity
• The body, gender, sexuality, and social reproduction
• Ability and access
• Infrastructures, logistics, and networks
• Environments, ecologies, and natures
• Housing, property, and the Commons
• Zoning, regulation, and control

Radical planning epistemologies and pedagogies

• Radical and activist research methodologies
• Expertise, data, and knowledge
• Teaching radical planning, publishing, media, and knowledge networks
• Historical and comparative analyses of radical planning practice

There is no fee to participate or attend the conference.

Co-organizers:
Bri Gauger, University of Michigan
Sarah Gelbard, McGill University
Carla Maria Kayanan, University of Michigan
Julie Mah, University of Toronto
Danielle Rivera, University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Sherman, University of Illinois
Raksha Vasudevan, University of Texas

Upcoming Simpson Center lecture

Lecture at the  Simpson Center for The Humanities : The Same River Twice: Ethics and Entities in the Anthropocene

Etienne Turpin, Research Scientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 3:30-5 pm

Communications 120, Reception to follow in Communications 206

The Same River Twice: Ethics and Entities in the Anthropocene

What do contemporary urban ecologies teach human residents about ethics, epistemology, and media? First attributed to Heraclitus of Ephesus by Plato, the remark that we cannot step in the same river twice is at once a statement about the nature of perpetual change and an acknowledgement of a tension between sensation and abstraction in human understandings of nature. More than twenty-five centuries later, the Indonesian island of Java is now inhabited by more residents than lived on Earth during Heraclitus’s time, with many living in densely arranged megacities. In fact, the greater metropolitan area of the capital, Jakarta, has more than 30 million people residing alongside thirteen rivers that run from the mountains of the Sunda Arc to the Java Sea.

What can we learn from the residential knowledges and itinerant practices that characterize this megacity? By way of a survey of his recent design projects with anexact office, Urban Lab Network Asia, MIT, and PetaBencana.id, Etienne Turpin will suggest how the Anthropocene is being locally instantiated through a parametrization of life on earth. Considering the ethical and epistemic consequences of residential life in the city—including dispositions toward nonhuman entities, mediations that enable collaboration and contestation, and contributions to postnatural ecologies—the presentation will unfold some concepts and concerns emerging from this torrential formation.

Etienne Turpin is a philosopher and Founding Director of an exact office, a design research office in Jakarta, Indonesia. He studies and designs knowledge infrastructure and produces platforms, exhibitions, and publications by combining design, archival research, documentary, and ethnography. Turpin also works as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he coordinates the Humanitarian Infrastructures Group and co-directs the PetaBecana.id disaster mapping project for the Urban Risk Lab. He is the editor of Architecture in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2013) and co-editor of Fantasies of the Library (MIT Press, 2016), Art in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2015), and Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation (Universitas Indonesia Press, 2013).

Organized by The Anthropocene, a cross-disciplinary research cluster of the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Conservation, the Southeast Asia Center, and Urban@UW.

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@u.washington.edu.

society for Italian philosophy

https://www.societyforitalianphilosophy.org

What would a new old system look like?

As we regularly check ourselves about the nature of governance, political economies, participation in the polis, oppression, exclusion, and power… perhaps one of our next readings ought to look to an older source of wisdom. We have touched on indigeneity, and have read some feminist scholars. But we haven’t really looked at anything that combined the two, and the book below apparently does that. This from a food systems list I’m on, from poster Debbie Hillman, a consultant in Evanston, Illinois:

New System?  If anyone wants to read about a model for the new system, I would recommend diving into the details of the Iroquois Constitution and the Iroquois League.  I think the answers have been right under our noses, in plain sight.

The most detailed book by far (that I have been able to find) is:

Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas

by Barbara Alice Mann

2000, Peter Lang Publishing

“Gantowisas” is variously defined in the book as:

— clan mothers

— government women

— indispensable women

The chapter titles will give you an idea of the structure of the book and of the League itself.  To me, it reads like a poem:

1.  No-Face Husk Doll:  Women Wiped Clean from the Record

2.  The Direction of the Sky:  Gendered for Balance

3.  “They are the Soul of the Councils”:  Women’s Role in Political Life

4.  “Good Rule:  They Assist One Another”: Women’s Control of Economics

5.  “No Whips, No Punishments, No Threats”: Women’s Control of Social Life

6.  “Come, Let me Untangle your Hair”:  Women as Faithkeepers

Epilogue:  Now our Minds are One

Dr. Mann is a humanities scholar at University of Toledo.  She is also a member of the Seneca Bear Clan nation, which is part of the Iroquois League.  The book is both scholarly and fun.  Dr. Mann does not hold back, in truth-telling or in humor.