Interrupt, Reframe: Who decides?

Founded in 2013, Design Talks Institute (d.talks) is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing thinking and dialogue around architecture, art and design within the urban environment. Through exhibitions, workshops, seminars, and conferences, the organization facilitates wide-ranging discussions that cover a range of contemporary issues on spatial form, distilling how these relate at the local level. Curiosity and a desire to find common ground through compelling inquiry propel and sustain the organization. At d.talks, a question is always as important as an answer.

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These three talks are a means of opening up the space for new narratives to take hold. What relationships can designers and communities deepen? What don’t we know about the place in which we live?

On behalf of d.talks and the Calgary Public Library...join us to discuss how the design of our city is informed by who&#x27;s making the decisions.Who has access to education to become an architect or planner? What mentorship structures exist that support a diversity of representation within the field? How can we bring a level of support to anti-racism initiatives by encouraging new voices to the conference table defining the access and experience of our city design?HEAR FROM:Destiny Kirumira holds a BA in Mathematics and Physics (University of Alberta) and a Master of Architecture (University of Calgary). She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University. Her research explores the architecture of Black settlements in Canada. In addition to being a Ph.D. candidate, Destiny is also a visual artist interested in using Black portraiture to address Anti-Blackness. As both an architect and artist, her work attempts to uproot and reconcile the roots of racism in both fields with a current emphasis on Black spaces and narratives.Ipek Türeli is the Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice and an Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University. Her research on Istanbul was awarded several fellowships and grants and her books include the co-edited book Orienting Istanbul (2010) and authored book Istanbul Open City (2018). One of her ongoing projects is Architecture Playshop: Developing critical literacy with young children around climate change, forced migration and the built environment, which originated as an invited program for the Korean Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale.Wendy Koo is a Coordinator at The City of Calgary that leads one of the many teams that contribute to the daily work of city-building. As a Chinese-Canadian immigrant, she has lived in four countries and many interesting cities that have influenced her professional practice. She currently works and lives in the Treaty 7 area with a family that includes two energetic kids. Wendy has over 15 years of experience that has centred on downtown and inner city redevelopment. Over the last few years, her focus has been more on people and places, including creating space for the hard conversations around equity, diversity and inclusion within the planning profession.Find more about the speakers <a href="http://www.dtalks.org/upcomingevents/interrupt3" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Interrupt, Reframe: To give space to unheard histories and lived experiences within our city, sometimes it is necessary to interrupt the dominant narratives. While a design process works hard to uncover meaning and to connect neighbours and city-dwellers, there are gaps in the representation of voices that define how our city is planned, shaped, and experienced. The three Interrupt, Reframe talks are a means of opening up the space for new narratives to take hold. What relationships can designers and communities deepen? What don’t we know about the place in which we live?
The Interrupt, Reframe talk series is produced in partnership with the Calgary Public Library and with the support of Canada Council for the Arts. The talks are part of an issue of FOLD titled Interrupt, Reframe published by d.talks with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, in addition to the ongoing support of Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

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