Epidemic Urbanism Panel on “Learning from the Pandemic: Leveraging Architectural Education Toward Equity, Health, and Resilience

A roundtable discussion sponsored by the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative

 

Friday, March 11, 2022, 12-1:30pm US Eastern Time, via Zoom

In this session, Deans of five Schools of Architecture across the United States will respond to a range of timely questions for architectural education provoked by the simultaneous epidemics of COVID-19, racism and racial inequity, and climate change, including:

  • How has architecture pedagogy shifted in response to issues of access and equity in an online setting?
  • How does the practice of architecture need to change to confront the many precarities and vulnerabilities in urban settings rendered visible by COVID?
  • What role can and should schools of architecture play in this shift?

This session will by chaired by Lynne Dearborn, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Past President of ACSA.

Panelists include:

  • Mary Anne Akers (Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD)
  • Renee Y. Chow (Dean, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Nan Ellin (Dean, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver)
  • Harriet Harriss (Dean, Pratt Institute, New York, NY)
  • Robert Weddle (Dean, Hammons School of Architecture, Drury University, Missouri)

This session will be hosted via Zoom (register below) and livestreamed via the Epidemic Urbanism YouTube channel. A recording of the event will also be available via YouTube.

Here is the registration link.