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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 We
 ston Chien. They will be lecturing on their process and how their experienc
 es and values shape their work as built environment professionals\, educato
 rs\, and textile designers. In addition to sharing their most recent pieces
  intersecting ideas of environmental justice\, the built world\, and narrat
 ive\, they will be sharing how they have navigated collaboration\, funding\
 , and working sustainably. They hope for this lecture to serve as a case st
 udy for young practitioners imagining what is next. \n\nWorkshop - practici
 ng process with just practice\n\n75 minutes\n\nIn this workshop with just p
 ractice\, we ask you to bring a project you feel most excited about being r
 ealized and imagine how to make it real with us. So much of what we do in s
 chool is framed as an exercise\, but we are interested in thinking about ho
 w the ideas (and sometimes derivatives) can show up in your work outside of
  school. For roughly an hour\, we will talk through embedded values\, poten
 tial collaborators\, design agency\, and what success would look like to yo
 u. We hope to foster a broader conversation with peers. Please submit an im
 age associated with the project and a three-sentence description in advance
 .\n\nBio\n\njust practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien) spans arc
 hitecture\, landscape architecture\, urban planning\, community engagement\
 , textile\, and graphic design\, as well as activist and organizing work wi
 thin the design field. We think about modes of practice\, the spatializatio
 n of memory\, Black feminist practices\, the historical role of women in ar
 chitecture\, and strategies for collective care. just practice has exhibite
 d at Northeastern University\, Mills College\, MIT Museum\, Boston Public L
 ibrary Leventhal Map Center\, MIT Rotch Architecture Gallery\, Yale School 
 of Art and Boston Society of Architects\, and our work is in private collec
 tions and in the permanent collection at the MIT Museum. Our piece Soft Cit
 y was awarded the inaugural City Talks Digital Gallery Award from the Spati
 al Analysis Lab at USC\, and we were finalists for the Harvard University R
 adcliffe Institute Public Art Competition.\n\nSophie is from North Carolina
 \, and Amanda is from Massachusetts.\n\nThis memorial lecture was created b
 y friends and family members of our department’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 o
 ne of the bright ones\, and an up-and-coming leader for the firm. She lost 
 her life when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area 
 on October 17\, 1989.\n\nTo honor her memory\, McKeown’s family and her ass
 ociates at RHAA dedicated themselves to establishing this memorial lecture 
 fund. An endowment fund at the UO Foundation was created\, and in 1992 the 
 department hosted Robert Royston of RHAA as the inaugural speaker in this l
 ecture series.
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LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 177
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SUMMARY:McKeown Lecture: "just practice\; practicing process"
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