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Open Lecture with Urban Designer Nan Ellin »
Start: 2011/09/22 - 1:15pm
Teaser: American author Nan Ellin, Chair of the University of Utah Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, will be in at the University September 22, 2011 to share her ideas and expertise on sustainable cities.
Ms. Ellin’s work in urban design, community-building and university-neighborhood partnerships aims to enhance quality of life, specifically through improving the built and natural environments. She has developed a process for accomplishing this called VIDA: Visioning, Inspiring, Demonstrating, and Advocating.
Most recently, Ellin applied this process with students and communities to introduce Canalscape, an award-winning metropolitan initiative to leverage the vast network of canals in the Phoenix region, originally built by early inhabitants over a millennium ago, by creating vital urban hubs where canals meet major streets. She also worked with the Phoenix cultural community to spearhead a book project, Phoenix 21st Century City, designed to strengthen the region’s metropolitan image as a youthful, creative hub beyond its snowbird stereotypes. The Phoenix Tourism office used the book project to help promote tourism in European markets.
Ellin is also the author of several other books, including Integral Urbanism (2006) and Postmodern Urbanism (1999) which offer an optimistic big picture and a primer on restoring health and well-being to the contemporary city by incorporating five qualities: hybridity, connectivity, porosity, authenticity, and vulnerability.
This event is open to all EVDS students as well as the public.
Date:Thursday, September 22, 2011Time:1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
Place: Professional Faculties Building, Room 2165
Stephen Teeple lecture »
Dates
November 10 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
University of Calgary downtown campus
Website
www.ucalgary.ca/evds
Main Body
As part of the lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), Stephen Teeple, principal of Teeple Architects in Toronto delivers this lecture at 7:00pm at the University of Calgary downtown campus, located at 906 8th Avenue SW.
Fees
Admission is free for University of Calgary students, and $5 for everyone else.
Jane Rendell lecture »
Date
October 13 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
University of Calgary downtown campus
Website
www.ucalgary.ca/evds
Main Body
As part of the lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), Jane Rendell of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London delivers the Gillmor Visiting Lectureship at 7:00pm at the University of Calgary downtown campus, located at 906 8th Avenue SW.
Fees
Admission is free for University of Calgary students, and $5 for everyone else.
Catalyst: Provoking Calgary’s Next Chapter »
Dates
September 29-October 1 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
University of Calgary downtown campus
Website
http://makecalgary.com
Main Body
Hosted by makeCalgary 2011, this event will examine places that have experienced real change and its associated catalysts – the conditions in the social, environmental, cultural and economic realms that provoked the shift to a new chapter. Themes include: Connectivity and Culture in the Downtown Core; Density and Affordability in the Inner City; Collective Space in the Middle Ring Suburbs; and Transportation and Commercial Space in the Periphery. Sites currently under consideration for study include: sections of the CP rail line downtown, laneway redevelopment in Sunnyside, green-space adaptation and rejuvenation in Rundle, and commercial form at Crowfoot Centre. Each of these projects is explicitly linked to existing initiatives or key considerations at the City of Calgary, in keeping with the makeCalgary emphasis on real and upcoming urban opportunities. Transect walks, a panel discussion, and an interdisciplinary design charrette will structure the exploration and lead to an exhibition. makeCalgary 2011 will produce design concepts and proposals for focused action to help provoke Calgary’s next chapter. This year’s panel discussion includes the following participants: Rob Adams, Director of City Design, Melbourne; Ingrid Fetell of New York; Andreu Arriola of Arriola + Fiol Arquitectes, Barcelona; Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary; and Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, Dean of EVDS, University of Calgary.
Additional Info
Over the last decade, Calgarians have engaged in conversations that have shaped a rich vision for their city. Today, Calgary finds itself in the midst of considering and implementing this vision. makeCalgary gathers the energy of designers, community leaders, decision-makers, and interested Calgarians around the challenge of making the Calgary we imagine. Hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, makeCalgary engages interdisciplinary design as a vehicle of change through making. With Calgary as the laboratory, and design as the method, makeCalgary produces concepts and proposals for focused action. Each year, makeCalgary celebrates and energizes a moment in Calgary’s evolution.
Brutal Bus Tour »
Date
June 26 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website
www.calgaryheritage.org
Main Body
The Calgary Heritage Initiative Society (CHI) and the Calgary Architecture and Urban Studies Alliance (CAUSA) have partnered for a unique fundraising event to raise awareness of Calgary’s often-maligned and misunderstood Brutalist period of architecture (1960s to 1970s). For the first time, they are offering an exclusive guided tour of Calgary’s premier Brutalist architecture sites. Please join David Down, Senior Architect and Urban Designer with the City of Calgary, for a three-hour guided bus tour of some of the city’s most controversial and nationally acclaimed Brutalist sites.
Schedule
The tour includes a brown-bag lunch, and departs at the front of Old City Hall at 10:00am.
Fees
Tickets are $30 for CHI members; $35 for non-CHI members; and $40 for CHI membership and a ticket. Please RSVP to rsvp@calgaryheritage.org.
Andres Duany lectures on Agricultural Urbanism: Retooling Cities for the 21st Century »
Date
June 17 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
Glenbow Museum Theatre
Main Body
The course of 21st-century urbanism will be defined in large part by food. Our connections to it, our relationships with growers and providers, and the manner in which we integrate its system elements into the projects and neighbourhoods we build. New models are needed for viable (and desirable) forms of agriculture and food activities across a wide range of spaces, putting the focus squarely on design. Sustainability is the rallying cry. Urbanism is the operating system. Participate in an evening of musings and ideas on the subject from Andres Duany, founder of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and one of urban planning’s most influential provocateurs.
Schedule
This event takes place on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:30pm at the Glenbow Museum Theatre, located at 130 9th Avenue SE in Calgary.
Fees
Admission is free.
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? »
Dates
March 25 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
Alberta College of Art + Design
Local Phone
403.284.7633
Website
www.acad.ab.ca/raff.html
This film, entitled How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? looks at the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster’s origins and how his dreams and influences inspired emblematic projects such as Beijing Airport – one of the largest buildings in the world – the Reichstag reconstruction, the Hearst Tower in New York and a bridge in Millau, France, considered the tallest in the world. In the very near future, the majority of human beings will abandon the countryside and live entirely in cities. Foster offers some striking solutions to the problems that this historic event will create. With an introduction by Calgary architect Jeremy Sturgess, the screening takes place on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 6:30pm in the Stanford Perrott Lecture Hall at the Alberta College of Art + Design, located at 1407 14th Avenue NW in Calgary.
Marcelo Spina lecture »
Dates
April 7 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
Uptown Stage and Screen
Main Body
As part of the Design Matters lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design, Marcelo Spina of Patterns Architecture in Los Angeles speaks at 7:00pm at the Uptown Stage and Screen in Calgary.
Fees
Admission is $5 but free for University of Calgary students.
Additional Info
For more information, please visit www.evds.ucalgary.ca.
Marjan Eggermont lecture »
Dates
March 17 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
Uptown Stage and Screen
Main Body
As part of the Design Matters lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design, Marjan Eggermont, artist and instructor at the Schulich School of Engineering speaks at 7:00pm at the Uptown Stage and Screen in Calgary.
Fees
Admission is $5 but free for University of Calgary students.
Additional Info
For more information, please visit www.evds.ucalgary.ca.
