The Hidden City: Daylighting the Past in Urban Space | 6Place Toronto | Tal...
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The Hidden City: Daylighting the Past in Urban Space
A talk by Anita Bakshi - hosted by Heba Mostafa
Talk
5pm - 6.30pm
Room 200 (Mediatheque)
Walk
Sat, Apr 27/1911am - 2pm
Workshop
Sat, Apr 27/193pm - 5pm
1 Spadina Crescent, Toronto
Room 230
About Heba Mostafa
Heba Mostafa teaches courses on the history of Islamic art, architecture and urbanism. Her teaching focuses upon exploring the development of artistic communities and architectural and urban environments from a multi-faceted cultural perspective that consider political, economical, social, and religious factors. Her research interests include the architecture and urbanism of the Islamic world with a focus on the early Islamic period in the Central Islamic lands, specifically the architecture of the Umayyad period. This is in addition to areas of disciplinary contact with late antiquity and Europe, particularly Muslim Spain.
About Anita Bakshi
Anita Bakshi is the author of Topographies of Memories: A New Poetics of Commemoration (2017). She teaches in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University and is affiliated with the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) Program. Following several years in architectural practice in Chicago, California and Istanbul, she received her PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Cambridge University with the Conflict in Cities Research Programme.
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This talk is the fourth of a series of 6Place Toronto events. It is paired with an exploratory walk at the Garrison Creek (Sat, April 27/19 – 11:00am to 2:00pm) and an open Workshop at the Daniels Faculty (Sat, April 27/19 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm, Room 230, 1 Spadina Crescent)
Both events are open to the public. Please contact farah.michel@mail.utoronto.ca for more information.
6Place Toronto is a McLuhan Centre working group project investigating significant urban spaces in Toronto where media and infrastructure intersect with architecture and public space. The project includes talks, walks, open seminars and produces new documentations of invisible or iconic buildings, landscapes and infrastructure as potential public spaces. 6PT is funded by University of Toronto’s Mcluhan Centre for Culture and Technology and supported by the University of Toronto School of Cities and by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.