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In three demitasse presentations, by David Gissen, Grace Jun and Jorge Otero-Pailos, followed by a conversation, we'll explore the adaptation and reconstruction of bodies – in clothing, products, buildings and cities – while considering questions of access, ableness, prosthetics, technologies and memory.
In conversation with Robert Kirkbride, Dean, Parsons SCE.
Presented by the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design.
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David works at the intersection of architecture, history, and experimental design. He is Professor of Architecture and Urban History at the Parsons School of Design and the New School University. David was Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University (2019 – 2020); University Professor (2019-20) at the Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; and former Professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA), where he was based for twelve years. At CCA David established the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design in History and Theory and co-founded the “Experimental History Project”. His historic reconstructions, projects, and preservationist works have been exhibited in the Venice Biennale (2016, 2020), Canadian Centre for Architecture, Yale University Architecture Galleries, and the Museum of the City of New York.
Grace Jun is a designer, educator, and CEO at Open Style Lab (OSL), a Smithsonian National Design award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to making style accessible for all people, regardless of cognitive and physical abilities. As Assistant Professor of Fashion, Grace develops her creative practice at OSL by teaching inclusive design courses, where designers and students collaborate with disability organizations. Her research practice examines how design and technology can increase social inclusion for people with disabilities. Grace's commitment to inclusive design is reflected in her latest publication, Universal Materiality, and featured in Forbes, Vogue, and the New York Times. She was named RISD's Emerging Leader of the year and recently featured on a documentary for Hulu called "Design for All."
Jorge Otero-Pailos (1971, Spain) is a New York-based artist and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Drawing from his formal training in architecture and preservation, his art practice deals with memory, culture, and transitions, and invites the viewer to consider buildings and functional objects as powerful agents of change. Jorge's works are to be found in the collections of SFMoMA, The Museum of London; The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; The Whitworth, Manchester; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Kelvingrove / The People's Palace, Glasgow; and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna. Jorge participated in the 53rd Venice Art Biennial (2009), and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), among others. He is Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York.
Robert Kirkbride is Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments, and Professor of Architecture and Product Design. Dr. Kirkbride's work integrates research and design practice, investigating the interplay of physical and mental infrastructures of memory and identity. Robert directs the architectural design atelier, studio ‘patafisico, and is also Spokesperson and a founding trustee for PreservationWorks, a national 501c3 organization advocating the preservation and adaptive reuse of Kirkbride Plan Hospitals for the insane. Dr. Kirkbride designed the Morbid Anatomy Museum with Anthony Cohn, and authored the award-winning multimedia online book Architecture and Memory, which reconstructs the educational, political and rhetorical uses of two memory chambers from the Italian Renaissance. Robert has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy.
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