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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. C. Malterre-Barthes
DTSTART:20201105T154500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\n15:45 – 16:30 – Prof. Ch
 arlotte Malterre-Barthes\nAssistant Professor at Harvard Graduate School o
 f Design\, Cambridge\, USA\n\nTalk title:\nUrban Design for an Uncertain F
 uture: Facing Urgent Challenges\n\nAbstract:\nFaced with climate change\, 
 fast-paced urbanization\, and environmental degradation everywhere\, plann
 ing disciplines need to be repositioned to serve and address better these 
 challenges. Inscribing her strategic practice within new and interconnecte
 d forms of action in the time of the Anthropocene\, Charlotte Malterre-Ba
 rthes (Harvard GSD) will discuss her projective research\, pedagogy\, and
  design approach of architecture and urban design.\n\n\nShort bio:\nCharlo
 tte Malterre-Barthes is an architect\, scholar\, urban designer and assist
 ant professor of urban design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Gradua
 ted from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille (EN
 SA) where she obtained in 2003 her diploma magna cum laude with ‘A Women
  Center in Baghdad’\, tackling political and social involvements of arch
 itecture\, she also studied at TU Vienna and ETH Zurich. She obtained in 2
 018 her doctoral degree at ETH on Food Territories\, with Egypt as case st
 udy\, nominated for the ETH Silver Medal. After interning at Coop Himmelb(
 l)au\, Charlotte then collaborated with several offices (Balkrishna Doshi 
 at Sangath\, Rudy Ricciotti\, OOS). In 2009\, she founded OMNIBUS with Nob
 oru Kawagishi\, an urban design agency dedicated to new forms of practice 
 and cultural production\, of which the latest outputs are “Some Haunted 
 Spaces in Singapore” (with M.Jäggi\, Edition Patrick Frey\, 2018) and 
 “Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun” (with Z. Dzierżawska\, Nobrow\, 
 2019). As guest professor at TU Berlin (2018-2019) she investigated and ch
 allenged the predatorily modus operandi of real estate in the German capit
 al\, and as program director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban De
 sign at the chair of Marc Angélil (2014-2019) focused on migration and ur
 banism in Meiterranean cities (Tangier\, Marseille\, Beirut). Charlotte cu
 rated with Ciro Miguel and Vanessa Grossman the 12th International Archite
 cture Biennale of São Paulo on ‘Everyday’ (Sep-Dec. 2019). A research
  fellow at Future Cities Laboratory-Singapore in 2012-2013\, Charlotte lec
 tured and taught workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, the 
 AA\, the Storefront for Art and Architecture\, at Hong-Kong University\, a
 mong others. Her works were widely published (AD\, San Rocco\, TRANS\, Tra
 cés\, etc.) and exhibited (n.b.k Berlin\, Architekturforum Zürich\, Swis
 s and Egyptian Pavilions at the Venice Biennales\, at the Bi-City Shenzhen
  Biennale\, Institut du Monde Arabe\, IFPO Cairo). With Marc Angélil\, sh
 e edited “Housing Cairo: The Informal Response\,” (DAM prizewinner 201
 6) and “Cairo Desert Cities” (Berlin\, Ruby Press). In the frame of a 
 vivid and decade-long political practice\, Charlotte is also a founding me
 mber of the Parity Group\, a grassroots association within ETH committed t
 o improving gender equality at the school and in the profession—and outs
 ide of both.\n\n\n 
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84800141637
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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