[NYC] Human Migration in the 21st Century

Terreform's Director, Vyjayanthi Rao was a panelist along with Juan Corradi, Professor of Sociology, NYU and Geir Haarde, Ambassador of Iceland to the United States at The Penn Club in New York City on Thursday, March 31, 2016 for a discussion on human migration. Hosted by the Wein Alumni Network and moderated by Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis, the panel session focused on the economic, social and political implications of human migration in the 21st century and provided a platform for attending WISP alumni to share their migrant experiences.

Waterproofing New York Exhibition

The City College of New York celebrated the launch of the book Waterproofing New York, edited by faculty members Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, and published through Terreform's imprint, UR (Urban Research)  with an exhibition of the same name at the East Gallery in the Spitzer School of Architecture.

The exhibition runs through April 15, 2016. The Spitzer School of Architecture is located on 141 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street in Harlem, New York.

Loophole Planning & Infrastructure Making in Mumbai

At the Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, Vyjayanthi Rao presents her ethnographic work looking at the planning process and its implications for understanding relationships between land use planning and politics as it unfolds in contemporary Mumbai. She draws on years of fieldwork to examine citizens’ confrontation with new developments, resulting from a series of policy loopholes that changed the definition of development and the way social and material infrastructure are increasingly linked to practices of speculation.

The talk situates the relationship between planning, citizen-driven, iterative infrastructure making and new forms of political engagement in an age that demands a creative embrace of uncertainty.

For more details about the event, check out Institute for the Humanities' event page.