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SUMMARY:Pressure Points: Risk - Jess Myers / RIOT\, MAS UTD
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DESCRIPTION:Jess Myers is an urbanist whose practice includes work as an e
 ditor\, writer\, podcaster and curator\, and is a tenure-track Assistant P
 rofessor at Syracuse University. Previously\, Myers was an assistant profe
 ssor of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked 
 as an archivist\, translator and analyst in New York and Paris. Myers serv
 ed as a co-steward of the Architecture Lobby’s New York chapter and as t
 he series editor for SEIU’s book series\, Taking Freedom. Her research t
 akes many forms\, including a variety of multimedia platforms\, which she 
 uses to explore politics and residency in urban conditions. Myers’ podca
 st\, Here There Be Dragons focuses on the intersection of identity politic
 s and security policy in public space through the eyes of New Yorkers\, Pa
 risians and Stockholmers. Myers’ work has been published in The Architec
 t’s Newspaper\, Log\, The Funambulist Magazine\, Failed Architecture\, A
 very Review\, Dwell and l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Her most recen
 t exhibition\, “A Pause Is Not A Break\,“ was exhibited widely\, inclu
 ding at the Rhode Island School of Design\, the University of Iowa and Car
 leton University.\n“To emphasize (...) dubious uses of risk is perverse\
 , a dirty way of talking about a\nclean scientific subject”\nMary Dougla
 s\, Risk and Blame\, 36.\n\nAs the baseline condition of so many territori
 es shaped by extractive industries\, administrative delay\, and climatic i
 nstability\, risk is prevalent. Yet ecological risk—pollution\, fires\, 
 floods\, heatwaves\, droughts—is still presented as problems to be solve
 d rather than conditions to be inhabited. This also speaks to an outsourci
 ng of risk through externalized consequences of spatial injustice. Banks\,
  developers\, material supply chains\, normative institutions\, subcontrac
 ting hierarchies —all contend with calculated risk. This edition of Pres
 sure Points asks us to unpack what it means to live with the risk\, how it
  is managed\, commodified\, quantified\, invented\, politicized\, instrume
 ntalized\, tamed\, and to think\, design\, cohabitate intellectually and p
 hysically with it. The assembled guests should help us think and build lit
 eracy toward developing tools for living within uncertain territories and 
 futures.\n\nJess Myers\nMonday\, November 16\, 17:00 CET\n\nJess Myers is 
 an urbanist whose practice includes work as an editor\, writer\, podcaster
  and curator\, and is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Syracuse Unive
 rsity. Previously\, Myers was an assistant professor of architecture at th
 e Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked as an archivist\, translat
 or and analyst in New York and Paris. Myers served as a co-steward of the 
 Architecture Lobby’s New York chapter and as the series editor for SEIU
 ’s book series\, Taking Freedom. Her research takes many forms\, includi
 ng a variety of multimedia platforms\, which she uses to explore politics 
 and residency in urban conditions. Myers’ podcast\, Here There Be Dragon
 s focuses on the intersection of identity politics and security policy in 
 public space through the eyes of New Yorkers\, Parisians and Stockholmers.
  Myers’ work has been published in The Architect’s Newspaper\, Log\, T
 he Funambulist Magazine\, Failed Architecture\, Avery Review\, Dwell and l
 ’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Her most recent exhibition\, “A Pause
  Is Not A Break\,“ was exhibited widely\, including at the Rhode Island 
 School of Design\, the University of Iowa and Carleton University.\n\nRIOT
  (Research and Innovation on Territory) is a laboratory engaged in pedagog
 y and research within the Institute of Architecture (ENAC) at the Swiss Fe
 deral Institute of Technology–EPFL\, led by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes w
 ith Elif Erez\, Flore Guichot\, Jeremy Ratib\, Summer Islam\, Antoine Iwei
 ns\, Kathy Kao\, Nathalie Marj\, Romain Dubetier-Grenier\, Sylvie Clavel\,
  and Saira Mohammed. Believing that the construction sector and design dis
 ciplines must pivot and wholeheartedly engage in the current social and cl
 imatic urgencies by rewiring themselves to face and repair the harm\, RIOT
  utilizes tactics and strategies to decarbonize\, decolonize\, and depatri
 archalize space production–by design.\n 
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