Join June Williamson, co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, for a hands-on repair workshop. Through images and sketching, learn how to apply “retrofitting” tactics to build healthier, happier, and more sustainable suburbs.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 | Noon - 3pm
Houston at 2nd Ave | New York, New York
Free and open to the public. The Lab space is open to the elements so dress accordingly.
Sprawl dominates American cities. Its monotonous, low-density, single-use, auto-dependent landscapes are making us sick and endangering the health of the planet. Can Anywhere, USA, be fixed?
Photo by Christoph Gielen
Also, stick around for the panel Sprawl: Past, Present and Future- 6 - 8 pm, also on 10/8. Williamson will moderate a discussion on the history, development, and future of sprawl with panelists Rachel Heiman, an urban anthropologist at the New School specializing in the comforts and anxieties of the American middle class; Galina Tachieva, an urban planner and author of The Sprawl Repair Manual; and Christoph Gielen, a photographer exploring sprawl and the intersection of art and environmental politics through photographic aerial studies of infrastructure.
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