Architecture – Urban Planning – Social Diversity
A Transatlantic Dialogue with Roberta Washington
In cooperation with the Institute for ‘History and Theory of Architecture and the City’ at the TU Braunschweig, the August Bebel Institute, the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the TU Berlin, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Labour, Integration and Women’s Issues, the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
© Roberta Washington
Date: Friday, 23 January 2015
Introduction
How can urban planning and architecture take into account the needs of migrants, people of color or those seeking refuge? And how do architects and urban planners from these communities become more visible? These questions will be considered over the course of the evening in a transatlantic dialogue. New York-based black, female architect, Roberta Washington, will give an account of her many years of experience in strengthening minority perspectives in New York’s architecture and urban planning and will discuss the subject in conversation with experts from Berlin. Washington is a past president of the National Organization of Minority Architects, a former member of Central Harlem’s Community Planning Board and the architect of the African Burial Ground Interpretive Center in Manhattan.
Programme
Welcome and Einführung
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Nikolai Brandes, Researcher, Geschichte + Theorie der Architektur und Stadt, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Manuela Bauche, Programme Officer, August Bebel Institut, Berlin
Lecture
Roberta Washington, Architect, former President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, New York
Discussion, moderated by:
Noa Ha, Urban Studies Scholar, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, member of the Board of the Migration Council Berlin-Brandenburg
Çağla İlk, Architect and Curator, büro MILK, member of the Gender Mainstreaming Board of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin
In collaboration with the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und Stadt, TU Braunschweig, August Bebel Institut, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin and supported by: Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Integration und Frauen, Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
