Sawyer Seminar
Urban Art and the Network: Infrastructure Symposium
URBAN ART AND THE NETWORK: INFRASTRUCTURE
A SYMPOSIUM with RAHUL MEHROTRA and CAMP
1:00 - 4:00pm Panel (with lunch)
4:00 - 5:00pm Rahul Mehrotra
5:15 - 6:15pm CAMP
6:15 - 7:00pm Reception
This symposium asks how art and design address not only the material, formal, and formalizing qualities of infrastructure, but also its often impalpable implications. Permeating our existence by enabling daily life, infrastructure generally eludes scrutiny, rendered invisible through its material embeddedness or technological sophistication. From transportation to communication systems, from borders to electrical grids—infrastructure shapes not only the physical urban environment, but also the social, economic, and political structures within it.
Presenters: Julie Y. Chu (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology), Michael Fisch (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology), Karsten Lund (Assistant Curator, The Renaissance Society), Kate Marshall (Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame), Rahul Mehrotra (Principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai, India, and Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand (CAMP, collaborative artists' studio based in Mumbai, India).
Free and open to the public.