{"639284":{"#nid":"639284","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ConCave Lecture by Dr. Craig Wilkins","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ConCave Ph.D. Student Organization is excited to welcome Dr. Craig Wilkins, senior lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and diversity scholar with the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Wednesday, September 30 at 4 p.m. EST, Dr. Wilkens will present a lecture titled, \u0026quot;Tracing the History of the Social Justice Project in American Architecture.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Lecture\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs modern architecture gradually took hold just before and after World War II, its reformist social agenda was largely discarded. The social movements of the 1960s saw students, professionals, and activists responding to moral and social imperatives come together to revive that project. Their efforts gave rise to two significant justice movements in architecture \u0026ndash; community design centers and design\/build. Today those efforts \u0026ndash; along with increasing acceptance of pro bono and social entrepreneurship in the field \u0026ndash; have coalesced into what can be described as a new, multi-pronged justice project called public interest architecture. This talk will trace the rise, fall, and rise of these architectural movements and suggest a possible future teleology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Dr. Craig Wilkins\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA 2017 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum National Design Award winner and Hip Hop architectural theorist, architect, artist, academic and activist Dr. Craig L. Wilkins\u0026rsquo; creative practice specializes in engaging communities in collaborative and participatory design processes. The former director of the Detroit Community Design Center, he is currently creative director of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.clwilks.com\/\u0022\u003Ethe Wilkins project\u003C\/a\u003E, a social justice, strategic design alliance that provides architectural, urban design and planning services, public interest design solutions, and expertise in engaged public discourse. Dr. Wilkins is the author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-aesthetics-of-equity\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture \u0026amp; Music\u0026rdquo; (University of Minnesota 2007)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as well as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ruffneck-Constructivists-Craig-Wilkins\/dp\/0985337745\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Ruffneck Constructivist\u0026rdquo; (Dancing Foxes Press\/ICA 2014)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Diversity-among-Architects-From-Margin-to-Center\/Wilkins\/p\/book\/9781138900462\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Diversity Among Architects: From Margin to Center\u0026rdquo; (Routledge 2016)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and co-editor of \u0026ldquo;Activist Architecture: A Field Guide to Community-Based Practice\u0026rdquo; (DCDC Publications 2015).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis event is free and open to the public. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/concave-lecture-dr-craig-wilkins\u0022\u003EPlease RSVP to attend.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Craig Wilkins, senior lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and diversity scholar with the National Center for Institutional Diversity, will present a lecture titled, \u0022Tracing the History of the Social Justice Project "}],"uid":"34569","created_gmt":"2020-09-18 15:19:00","changed_gmt":"2020-09-18 15:19:00","author":"cwagster3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-09-30T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-09-30T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-09-30 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-09-30 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-09-30 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"306","name":"equity"},{"id":"6523","name":"justice"},{"id":"10351","name":"inclusion"},{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"2437","name":"lecture"},{"id":"8578","name":"architecture lecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003ECarmen New\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EMarketing and Event Coordinator II\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carmen.new@design.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecarmen.new@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}