Expanded Identities is interested in hearing the personal stories of designers working in postcolonial contexts. Designers and storytellers give a live tour of everyday spaces that influence their expanded design approaches and design story. We are interested in personal stories around identity, race and space, and exchanges between cultures within globalization. We ask: How has your context brought complexity to your personal story as a designer? We hope these talks will inspire our own students to bring their own cultural backgrounds into the foreground, building complexity into their design approaches.
Guest Panelists:
Julianknxx is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker who explores themes of inheritance, loss, and belonging. Julianknxx’s work merges his poetic practice with films and performance; he engages in a form of existential inquiry that at once seeks to find ways of expressing the ineffable realities of human experiences while examining the structures through which we live.
Wandile Mthiyane is an Obama Leader, lecturer, TEDx Fellow, Resolution Fellow, dynamic speaker, social entrepreneur, and the founder of Ubuntu Design Group (UDG), an architectural and micro-finance organization that focuses on social-impact design projects in housing and urban design. Wandile studied his BSA and M.Arch at Andrews University in Michigan. Wandile is also a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Durban University of Technology School/Department of Architecture in Durban.
This event will take place both in person and via Zoom on Thursday, Oct 20, 2022 at 12 - 1:30 PM EST / 6 - 7:30 PM SAST / 5 - 6:30 PM GMT.
Moderated by Yetunde Olaiya
Presented by Michele Gorman and Adegboyega Adefope at Parson's School of Constructed Environments
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Julianknxx is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker who explores themes of inheritance, loss, and belonging. Julianknxx’s work merges his poetic practice with films and performance; he engages in a form of existential inquiry that at once seeks to find ways of expressing the ineffable realities of human experiences while examining the structures through which we live.
Wandile Mthiyane is an Obama Leader, lecturer, TEDx Fellow, Resolution Fellow, dynamic speaker, social entrepreneur, and the founder of Ubuntu Design Group (UDG), an architectural and micro-finance organization that focuses on social-impact design projects in housing and urban design. Wandile studied his BSA and M.Arch at Andrews University in Michigan. Wandile is also a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Durban University of Technology School/Department of Architecture in Durban.
Yetunde Olaiya is a Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design. She is an architectural historian, specializing in the history of modern architecture and urban design in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research focuses on the forms of expertise cultivated for architectural production in Francophone Africa after World War II. Yetunde has practiced architecture at firms in London, Chicago, and New York. She has taught histories of modern architecture, art, industrial design, and interior design, as well as architectural studio, at a range of institutions.
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