Creative Exchange Lab (CEL)—Architecture, Design & Innovation Center

Proud to announce:

Expansive initiative planned to revitalize MLK Drive St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO) in partnership with the Creative Exchange Lab (CEL), a local design nonprofit, is launching a project to revitalize Dr. Martin Luther King Drive

CEL End of Year Letter | Jasmin Aber | 12.16.23

REFLECTIONS ON THE UIA 2023 WORLD CONGRESS
CSU and Columbia University GSAPP Event:

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
6:00pm-8:00pm ET
Free Hybrid Event

Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization • WHAT NEXT? WHERE? REFLECTIONS ON THE UIA 2023 WORLD CONGRESS WHAT NEXT? WHERE? REFLECTIONS ON THE UIA 2023 WORLD CONGRESS

Tomorrow July 31, 2023, from 12-1pm ET next Green Cities Event:

Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization • Green Cities Perú: Miraflores Centennial Park with Eileen Dancuart Green Cities Perú: Miraflores Centennial Park with Eileen Dancuart

Merry Christmas, happy holidays (photo: missing Leslie Laskey - a Christmas few years ago)

Leslie and Jasmin Christmas Day 2013

Green Cities 2022: Melbourne
Prof. Rob Adams, City Architect
Ten Steps that Transformed Melbourne for a Sustainable Future

Thursday, 14 July 2022, 7:00-8:00pm New York / Friday, 15 July 2022, 9:00-10:00am Melbourne

No pre-registration is needed for this free event, open to the public.

For more information:
https://lnkd.in/eCsyesuY

Zoom Meeting ID: 868 0697 7351 / Passcode: 554409
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Riding into the New Urban Agenda On April 27th, UN-Habitat and ITDP hosted Riding into a New Urban Agenda, a bike ride and discussion event ahead of the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Meet...

https://katherinedunhambdaydinner.eventbrite.com/

Katherine Dunham Bday Dinner & LIVE DANCE PERFORMANCE Celebrate Katherine Dunham Posthumous Birthday - Dinner & Live Performance!

CEL Wishes you all happy holidays, light and joy. Looking forward to seeing you all in 2022

pierre cardin's 1970s 'bubble palace' in the south of france is for sale designed by hungarian architect antti lovag in the 70s, ‘palais bulles’ (bubble palace) is a 1200 sqm house in the south of france comprising a cluster of interwoven bubble spaces. the iconic dwelling was built between 1979 and 1984 for french industrialist pierre bernard, and was bought in 1992...

https://www.curbed.com/2020/12/philip-johnson-name-removal-moma-fascism.html

Artists to MoMA: Take Down Philip Johnson’s Name The founding director of the museum’s Architecture and Design department was a known white supremacist.

Webinar: Building Modular Renewable Energy Smart Homes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-17/the-design-history-of-brussels-maison-de-ma-tre

Brussels’ Ornate Homes Defy City’s Low-Key Reputation While residents of Paris and Berlin piled into tall tenement buildings, 19th century Belgians built ornate single-family homes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/juneteenth-tulsa-massacre-what-isn-t-taught-classrooms-has-profound-n1231442?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Did you learn about Juneteenth in school? Many Americans don’t. Educators explain why. Educators said the history of systemic racism in this country and the contributions of Black people have been erased.

AIA Board statement on systemic racial injustice
To our members,

America’s list of racially motivated murders demand action. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Michael Brown. Shantel Davis. Atatiana Jefferson. Laquan McDonald. Tony McDade. Pamela Turner. Korryn Gaines. Trayvon Martin. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd. All murdered, because they happened to be black in the United States of America. There are others, and, sadly, we know there will be more. No words can adequately express the depth of anger, frustration, and national shame for their loss or the more than 1,250 black lives ended by police since January 1, 2015, according to The Washington Post’s database that tracks police shootings.

Each of these lives should be a clarion call to action. They should spur all of us to do more, and that starts by speaking up, clearly, directly, and consistently.

To be clear, the American Institute of Architects supports the protests to stop systemic, state-sanctioned violence against people of color. Period. We support and are committed to efforts to ensure that our profession is part of the solution that finally dismantles systemic racial injustice and violence -- the legacy of one of the United States’ original sins, slavery.

The fact is mere words are insufficient salve to bind the wounds created by centuries of brutality and injustice. No single statement can adequately address the United States of America’s 400-year legacy of enslavement and violent marginalization of black, indigenous, and other people of color. It is also a fact that what you say is what you do. In that regard, AIA’s words and actions have failed to live up to our highest ideals and values. AIA understands the disappointment of our past inaction and inadequate attention to the issue of systemic racial injustice. We were wrong not to address and work to correct the built world’s role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice, including the use of slave and forced labor, designing housing that marginalized communities of color, helping to design communities that excluded people of color, and participating in municipal projects that destroyed or weakened thriving African American, Hispanic, and Native American communities.

More than half a century has passed since Dr. Whitney M. Young, Jr. observed that “Decent people have to learn to speak up, and you shouldn’t have to be the victim to feel for other people.” We can’t change the past, but we can, and do, promise to harness the passion of our members and the broader design community to help lead efforts to dismantle the system of racial injustice that continues to end far too many lives and dim far too many futures.

AIA’s promise from this day forward is to hold close the anger, anguish, but above all, compassion we’ve heard from our members demanding that AIA speak out more clearly and urgently on racially motivated acts of violence and police brutality.

That important works starts with each of us. It is our responsibility to work together to break down the barriers that start in architecture school and continue into the firm and workplace that exclude far too many.

To that end, in the coming days and weeks, the focus of our actions will be to acknowledge, listen, and learn. We will review our own programs to directly confront and address systemic racial injustice. We will work more closely with partner organizations that can assist in making meaningful, lasting change for society and our profession. We will listen to our members and seek ways to remove barriers within the profession and the AIA. For the longer term, we will ensure that the profession more closely reflects the diversity of society. In short, we are committed to lead in the fight to dismantle this country’s centuries-old system of racial injustice and violence, so that future generations know the United States as a place where there is justice and equality for all.

We ask our community to join us and hold us accountable in the coming months and years to ensure that our deeds match our words. Our goal is to finally live up to Mr. Young’s words “to speak up” and to learn so that the talent and the expertise of the architect and the built world only work to advance justice, equity and opportunity.

Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Michael Brown. Shantel Davis. Atatiana Jefferson. Laquan McDonald. Tony McDade. Pamela Turner. Korryn Gaines. Trayvon Martin. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, the more than 1,250 souls lost to police brutality, and the thousands throughout our history who were killed and injured because of racial animus, deserve nothing less than our best efforts.

https://twitter.com/AIANational/status/1268721605875765249?s=20

AIA National on Twitter “AIA supports the protests to stop systemic, state-sanctioned violence against people of color. Period. We support & are committed to efforts to ensure that our profession is part of the solution that finally dismantles systemic racial injustice & violence. https://t.co/4YFFUjWmEc”

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/zw0ja7r2/release/5

The Knowledge Futures Commonplace

https://commonedge.org/how-architects-and-designers-can-respond-to-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1utafZIukPAdJnyN09yMOjIUZbNVnBR157FGiTlb3cUwmV4nT_YNFu598

How Architects and Designers Can Respond to COVID-19 What are the opportunities and needs in your community, and how could your skill sets and connections be of benefit?

Download your magazine online here! 🏛

https://vimeo.com/413127567?fbclid=IwAR29Xnmuf655SS_14zQYi4d-SYzXAU20vv9rEtoBkEfeWMR3qCtKr2AyeuA

2020 Eduard F. Sekler Talk “Home of the Oppressed”: Democracy, Slavery and American Civic Architecture by Mabel O. Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRu4QfMSNs

35 architects and designers send video messages to launch Virtual Design Festival | Dezeen Virtual Design Festival has launched with a video featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects, designers and artists around the world including Stefa...

https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR3QRA0YM_jm9KZxA43gjVXv4X6ja6lKJJCrPPMFK48FMVtOajs1uokapbE

Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus | Free to read This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come

Wow. If you want to understand how your individual actions can make a difference, read this. Don’t be Patient 31.

https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html?fbclid=IwAR35wU8PpjCxoU6wbrpGY1Y7WU4t1JHURujVopA_i-lNydTkTYHE4mnZ2_E

2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters How coronavirus cases exploded in South Korean churches and hospitals

https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20200313&fbclid=IwAR2BXYa8ICIZMWHL6R76w5zPIcYKW1EElUEbzg6RXQs2Z6MM6W3af8-IJEw

Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it…

https://archpaper.com/2020/02/detroit-motown-museum-expansion-new-flyover-video/

Detroit’s Motown Museum teases expansion in new flyover video Although the Motown Museum broke ground last falls, a new video gives the first in-depth look at the late Phil Freelon’s last project.

https://archpaper.com/2020/02/house-passes-womens-history-museum-bill/?trk_msg=9RQEQKL0R06KJC5EJIL41P9AEO&trk_contact=IJPNIA246ON6B1T2A6JJJL3MRS&trk_sid=RIE5KEOTE1HMKSO0U1NM44RR88&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=House+passes+bill+to+build+women%e2%80%99s+history+museum+on+National+Mall&utm_campaign=Late+Edition%3a+House+passes+bill+to+build+women%e2%80%99s+history+museum+on+National+Mall

House passes bill to build women’s history museum on National Mall A Smithsonian museum on the National Mall dedicated to women’s history in the United States is one step closer to becoming a reality.

always good to see young generations learning SDG (United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals) https://www.facebook.com/UNASTL/photos/a.461149127230650/3141400279205508/?type=3&theater

Top UN-Habitat Official on the Challenges and Solutions Facing Cities This Decade
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/top-un-habitat-official-on-challenges-solutions-facing-cities-this-decade?utm_source=Next+City+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dc39c4cc2e-Issue_286_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcee5bf7a0-dc39c4cc2e-44125637

Top UN-Habitat Official on the Challenges and Solutions Facing Cities This Decade Maimunah Mohd Sharif has been leading the United Nations program for sustainable urban development since 2018.