Urban Edge Symposium
Friday, April 5, 2013
The 2013 Urban Edge award event will be a symposium
titled Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices curated by
Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss ofWEISS/MANFREDI. Expanding the definition of
‘infrastructure’ to address an escalating set of design challenges that are at
once cultural, architectural, and environmental, the symposium will host a
series of cross-disciplinary talks and discussions between innovative
architects, artists, ecologists, engineers, and theoreticians.
Symposium Schedule
INTRODUCTIONS
10:00am, AUP170
REPOSITIONING INFRASTRUCTURE
10:30am, AUP170
Eric Bunge
Paul Mankiewicz
Anuradha Mathur
Mahadev Raman
Grace La (respondent)
INFRASTRUCTURE :UNSEEN FUTURES
2:00pm, AUP170
David van der Leer
Mary Miss
Keller Easterling
Kyle Reynolds (respondent)
EVOLUTIONARY INFRASTRUCTURE KEYNOTE LECTURE
4:30PM, ENGELMANN105
Faculty Contact
Karl Wallick is coordinating this event. For more
information, please contact him atwallick@uwm.edu
All events are occurring at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
campus. The architecture building [AUP] is located at the corner of Maryland
and Hartford. Panel sessions will occur in the ground floor auditorium
[AUP170]. The final keynote lecture will take place in the Engelmann auditorium
which is right next door to the architecture building. This event is free and
open to the public.