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X-WR-CALNAME:McKeown Lecture: "just practice\; practicing process"
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DESCRIPTION:Lecture - just practice\; practicing process\n\n1 hour\n\njust 
 practice is a collaborative practice started by Amanda Ugorji and Sophie W
 eston Chien. They will be lecturing on their process and how their experie
 nces and values shape their work as built environment professionals\, educ
 ators\, and textile designers. In addition to sharing their most recent pi
 eces intersecting ideas of environmental justice\, the built world\, and n
 arrative\, they will be sharing how they have navigated collaboration\, fu
 nding\, and working sustainably. They hope for this lecture to serve as a 
 case study for young practitioners imagining what is next. \n\nWorkshop - 
 practicing process with just practice\n\n75 minutes\n\nIn this workshop wi
 th just practice\, we ask you to bring a project you feel most excited abo
 ut being realized and imagine how to make it real with us. So much of what
  we do in school is framed as an exercise\, but we are interested in think
 ing about how the ideas (and sometimes derivatives) can show up in your wo
 rk outside of school. For roughly an hour\, we will talk through embedded 
 values\, potential collaborators\, design agency\, and what success would 
 look like to you. We hope to foster a broader conversation with peers. Ple
 ase submit an image associated with the project and a three-sentence descr
 iption in advance.\n\nBio\n\njust practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Westo
 n Chien) spans architecture\, landscape architecture\, urban planning\, co
 mmunity engagement\, textile\, and graphic design\, as well as activist an
 d organizing work within the design field. We think about modes of practic
 e\, the spatialization of memory\, Black feminist practices\, the historic
 al role of women in architecture\, and strategies for collective care. jus
 t practice has exhibited at Northeastern University\, Mills College\, MIT 
 Museum\, Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center\, MIT Rotch Architectu
 re Gallery\, Yale School of Art and Boston Society of Architects\, and our
  work is in private collections and in the permanent collection at the MIT
  Museum. Our piece Soft City was awarded the inaugural City Talks Digital 
 Gallery Award from the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC\, and we were finalists
  for the Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition.\n\
 nSophie is from North Carolina\, and Amanda is from Massachusetts.\n\nThis
  memorial lecture was created by friends and family members of our departm
 ent’s alumna\, Mary Kim McKeown. She received her bachelor of landscape 
 architecture from the University of Oregon in 1982 and was working in Mill
  Valley\, California in the offices of Royston\, Hanamoto\, Alley and Abey
  (now RHAA). McKeown was considered one of the bright ones\, and an up-and
 -coming leader for the firm. She lost her life when a magnitude 7.1 earthq
 uake struck the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17\, 1989.\n\nTo honor h
 er memory\, McKeown’s family and her associates at RHAA dedicated themse
 lves to establishing this memorial lecture fund. An endowment fund at the 
 UO Foundation was created\, and in 1992 the department hosted Robert Royst
 on of RHAA as the inaugural speaker in this lecture series.
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SUMMARY:McKeown Lecture: "just practice\; practicing process"
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Academic
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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