2009 Urban Design Symposium

After BIGNESS : Designing for Post-Crisis Cities

Monday, November 9, 2009
113 Avery, Wood Auditorium
Columbia University in the City of New York
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

• Curated by: Mojdeh Baratloo and MSAUD Fall 2009 Faculty
• Organized by: Paula Asturias, Gabriel Fuentes, Come Menage, Monica Pinjani, Sung Hwan Yoon

This student-organized event is held in conjunction with the GSAPP’s fall semester, post-professional Urban Design Studio which addresses the question of design at the regional scale. The title of this year’s symposium is “After BIGNESS: Designing for Post-Crisis Cities”.

Positioning itself within the interdisciplinary discourse of GSAPP’s various professional and academic programs, this year’s symposium will serve as a platform to critically question and discuss the dynamic relationship between architecture, planning, and urbanism relative to the post-industrial urban condition. Embracing the complexity and ambiguity of the terms “bigness” and “post-crisis”, we pose the following questions for consideration by the panel:

• How do we determine the parameters of “bigness” relative to the post-industrial city? In turn, what do we do after “bigness”?
• How do we define crisis such that we can begin to explore design for the “post-crisis” condition?

Schedule & Speaker

• 6:30 PM Introduction
  by MSAUD students
• 6:40 PM Presentation
  by Alan Berger
• 7:00 PM Presentation
  by Mahadev Raman
• 7:20 PM Presentation
  by Kenneth Frampton
• 7:40 PM Symposium Discussion
  moderated by Paolo Pietrogrande
• 8:10 PM Book Launch + Reception
  introduced by John Frazer and Richard Plunz