Remaking cities, reconceiving/reforming systems (planning and regulatory) to encourage compact, sustainable development and vibrant urban environments; remaking art/objects, remaking transportation vehicles, and remaking behaviors as designers/artists become harbingers for reducing urban stress; New Orleans rebuilding, the global implications of local reconstruction initiatives. John Rapko; Amy Franceschini; Ila Berman & Mona El Khafif, Rebuilding New Orleans; Dan Parolek and
Karen Parolek. Moderator: North Pitney
John Rapko
John Rapko is a professor of Art History and Critical Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is currently teaching at JFK University in Berkeley. He is currently working on two books, one on the philosophy of contemporary art and one on the foundations of the study of global art history. Rapko has published widely in both academic journals and art magazines, including the Poetics Journal, Artweek, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Notre Dame Philosophical Review. He has a long-standing interest in environmental thought and art, first publishing on these topics in 1990.
John Rapko
Amy Franceschini
Amy is a pollinator working in various media trying to understand the cultural perception of conflict between humans and nature. Her projects encourage new formats of engagement and production. Often taking form as long-term engagements with the public, her projects reveal ways that local politics are affected by globalization. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is currently a professor of Art + Architecture at University of San Francisco and a visiting artist at California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital and SFMOMA SECA Awards.
Amy Franceschini (part one)
Amy Franceschini (part two)
Ila Berman and Mona El Khafif
Ila Berman, founder and former Director of URBANbuild, and Mona El Khafif, Professor of Urban Design, are currently publishing a book on the documentation of the program. Ila Berman is currently the Director of Architecture at CCA and Mona El Khafif is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and the Project Coordinator of CCA/URBANlab. [More]
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Daniel Parolek
Daniel Parolek is an architect and urbanist whose passion is creating and revitalizing sustainable, walkable urban places and designing buildings that reinforce them. He is at the forefront of the practice of Form-Based Coding, which is a revolutionary alternative to zoning regulations that has proven to be highly effective in encouraging and incentivising more sustainable development patterns. [More]
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Karen Parolek
Karen Parolek strives to improve people’s lives by making web sites, software, signage, and documents simple to understand and use. As an information architect, she transforms confusing and overwhelming mounds of data into helpful and easily understood information. [More]
