Inequality and Urban Planning, with Professor Giuseppina Forte

Описание: Recorded Live at the Clark Art Museum on April 7th, 2024

How does the built environment affect (in)equality? Giuseppina Forte, professor of architecture and environmental studies at Williams College, uses the origins of modern city planning as a starting point to introduce her new book project, The Self-Built City: Material Politics and Ecologies of Difference in São Paulo. Her project chronicles the forces shaping urban ecologies, from self-built homes to hills and rivers, and how colonial structures solidify sites of difference. From her experience as a visiting researcher at the University of São Paulo, Forte speaks with a rich collection of oral histories and subaltern archives.

The talk is presented as part of the programming for the Clark's Paper Cities exhibition. Giuseppina Forte holds a PhD in architecture from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on urban history and theory, with a specialization in global metropolitan studies. With a transnational perspective gained from living, researching, and practicing architecture on three continents, Forte brings cross-cultural competency to her work. She has collaborated closely with historically underrepresented populations in cities such as São Paulo, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.