Designing City in Aftermath
of 9/11 Is Topic of Conference
Brooklyn, N.Y. - "Designing the City: Process and Spontaneity" is the theme of the annual spring conference of the Honors Program at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Wednesday, April 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The conference, which will examine how recent tragic events have made issues of design and redesign of extreme importance to the city, is free and open to the public. It will take place in Library Learning Center, Room 116. An art exhibit, dance and music performances will accompany the conference. In two panels, one on design and the other on memorialization, and a poster session on student responses to 9/11, the conference explores the formal and informal considerations that shape the production of public design. The morning session starts off with panelists Theodore Liebman, FAIA, of the Liebman Melting Partnership; architect and artist James Rossant; and Margot Wellington, urbanist and former director of the Municipal Art Society. A panel discussion on thinking about commemorative design follows, with speakers Kathleen Hulser of the New York Historical Society and Jennifer Wingate of SUNY Stony Brook. At noon, Heidi Latsky and Dancers will perform at the Triangle Theater. Choreography, like architectural design, is concerned with expressing ideas through structure and space. The afternoon events feature a poster session by students
on planning, design and documentary and a performance by the Long Island
University Choir, directed by Gloria Cooper. The conference concludes
with an art exhibit and reception in the Salena Gallery. The exhibit,
"Cities in the Sky," features the work of architect James Rossant.
The conference is supported by the John P. McGrath and Andrew Mellon Funds,
the University Honors Program and the art and dance departments. For more
information, call (718) 488-1658 or email rwheeler@liu.edu. |
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