LABash Panel: Critical Perspectives on Spatial Practice [Part 1]

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[Part 1]
LABash 2021 Cornell https://landscape.cals.cornell.edu/
TITLE: Critical Perspectives on Spatial Practice
Panelists: Dr. Ghazal Jafari, Ana María Durán Calisto, and Khensani De Klerk
Moderators: Jihany Hassun and Vanessa Dikuyama-Zapata
Emcee: Jake Geitner
SUNDAY, APRIL 11th

We would like to thank The University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s MLA program for sponsoring this talk. At the UHM School of Architecture, students--trained in the extraordinary Hawaiian landscape with its rich natural and cultural history--are equipped with strategies needed to enhance a beautiful, resilient, and healthy built environment. Focused on ecological and social sustainability by design, their MLA program advances contemporary landscape design teaching, theory and practice in tropical Asia-Pacific coastal regions.

To begin today’s Keynote Panel Discussion, first we would like to acknowledge that Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogohó:no’ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogohó:no’ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohó:no’ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohó:no’ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

Moderator JIHANY HASSUN is a graduate, post-professional Masters of Landscape Architecture student at Cornell University and a Latin American Studies Program Fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. She is a Canadian citizen of Brazilian-Lebanese descent currently on absentia status pursuing field work in Northeastern Brazil. Jihany’s research finds itself at the intersection of conservation, development, and climate change in semi-arid climates.

Moderator VANESSA DIKUYAMA is a first-year graduate student at the Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture and serves on the LABash 2021 Speakers Committee. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography and architecture from Middlebury College (VT), along with a strong interest in issues of sustainability and spatial justice, particularly as they impact her home region of Latin America. Vanessa is from and currently lives in Medellin, Colombia.

Panelist DR. GHAZAL JAFARI is a designer of Persian and Azeri descent and territorial scholar in exile. Originally from Tehran, her practice focuses on spatial and environmental justice, immigrant narratives, women resistance movements, and non-Western spatial discourses. She is the founding director of Miyan Rudan (‘Between Rivers’), a long-term territorial initiative based along the Karun River watershed, borderlands of Iran and Iraq. Her publications include “NO DESIGN ON STOLEN LAND” and THE QUINO CODEX. She is a founding director of OPEN SYSTEMS / Landscape Infrastructure Lab, and currently an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Ghazal Jafari.

Panelist KHENSANI DE KLERK is an architectural designer and planner from Johannesburg. Her efforts are centered on gender empowerment in the architectural industry through research and practice. She is the founder and co-director of Matri-Archi(tecture) which is a collective that
empowers African women as a network dedicated to African spatial education and development. She is currently reading an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (RIBA II) at the University of Cambridge with her research focusing on safe space, infrastructure and social provision with aims to reduce Gender-based violence in cities. Her work, currently based between South Africa and Switzerland, is located at the intersection of architecture, social science and public policy. Khensani is also an editorial contributor at The Architectural Review in London.

Panelist ANA MARIA DURAN CALISTO is currently a lecturer at the Yale’s School of Architecture and has taught design studios and research seminars at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Harvard, Columbia, University of Michigan, UC Temuco; and has been teaching fellow at the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. She curated the 15th Quito Architecture Biennial: “Visible Cities”, was National Curator for the 9th Bienal Ibero-Americana de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (BIAU), and academic advisor for the UN Conference Habitat III. She is currently a member of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA) convened by the SDSN and the UN. Ana María co-founded Estudio A0 with Jazz Kalirai in Quito (2002). Under the advice of Susanna Hecht, Ana Maria is writing a doctoral dissertation on the history of urbanization in the Amazon basin, with a specific focus on the oil urbanisms of Ecuador.