Inaugural CAPLA Lecture Series featuring Professor Lesley Lokko

Описание: To Inspire Optimism and Wonder in Our Changing World

The University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) is proud to announce the launch of the CAPLA Lecture Series, featuring renowned architect, academic, and writer, Professor Lesley Lokko, OBE, RIBA as the inaugural speaker.

EMERGENT WORLDS
The term ‘emergent’ generally refers to ideas, concepts, and even geographies that have been neglected, ignored, marginalized, denied, opposed, repressed, or not even recognized by dominant cultures, which nevertheless selectively incorporate aspects of these so called ‘emergent’ subcultures to maintain their power and hegemony. To describe Africa as ‘emergent’ is a misnomer. It is simultaneously the world’s oldest and youngest continent, yet it is equally true to say that its rich and complex material and spatial histories are absent from contemporary built environment discourse. In this lecture, Prof Lesley Lokko OBE draws on her recent experience of curating the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, entitled The Laboratory of the Future, to explore ideas around time, space, development, emergent and things that are — and were always — already here/there.’

PANEL DISCUSSION

Immediately following Lesley Lokko's lecture, a panel of leading experts in design, environmental science, and cultural studies will take the stage for an insightful discussion.

Beth Weinstein, Moderator, CAPLA
Lesley Lokko, African Futures Institute
Jack DeBartolo 3 | DeBartolo Architects
Praise Zenenga | College of Humanities African Studies
Kevin Anchukaitis | School of Geography, Development and Environment