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SUMMARY:South X Craft: Diana Martinez\, "The Philippine Craftsman: Craftin
 g Futures from Salvage Anthropology "
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DESCRIPTION:Prof Diana Martinez\nDiana Martinez "The Philippine Craftsman
 : Crafting Futures from Salvage Anthropology "\nMonday\, 23 November 2026\
 ; 18:30 \nSG Foyer\, EPFL \n\nDiana Martinez is an Assistant Professor a
 t UC Berkeley\, where she teaches Architectural History and Theory. Her re
 search on the architecture of US empire focuses on the built environment o
 f the Philippine Islands. Her first book\, Concrete Colonialism: Architect
 ure\, Urbanism\, and the United States' Imperial Project in the Philippine
 s (Duke University Press\, 2025)\, exposes the immense impact of a single 
 (hybrid) material on the United States colonial project in the Philippines
 . In doing so\, she links the history of US empire to the political\, soci
 al\, economic\, and environmental transformations that simultaneously took
  place in the colony and the metropole. She is currently working on the ma
 nuscript for a second book\, Master Plans: The Colonial Roots of Urban Ren
 ewal\, which presents a history of colonial planning in the Philippines as
  a major pivot point in the history of early 20th century city planning in
  the United States.\n\nAbout the 2026 "South X Craft: Matters of Making" L
 ecture Series:\nCraft is often used to evoke nostalgia and has been employ
 ed in the language of othering and fetishizing ‘Global Southern’ commu
 nities. At the same time craft holds the potential to re-ground design in 
 ecological and social specificities and attend closely to materiality. We 
 thus seek to use it as a critical lens towards the built environment. We a
 sk how craft can be engaged rigorously and ethically: attentive to the pol
 itical economies of who makes\, whose knowledge is valorized\, and how tra
 ditional practices are being reshaped by contemporary conditions. 
LOCATION:Foyer SG https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22
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