Public Space Lab invites you to a student-moderated panel discussion on "Global and Comparative Perspectives on Public Space." This conversationis framed by the "Public Space Reader," an edited collection co-edited by Vikas Mehta and Miodrag Mitrašinović (Routledge 2021).
Participants:
Clara Irazábal, Professor and Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program (URSP) in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) at the University of Maryland (UMD).
Vera Tângari, Professor of Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Timothy Jachna, Professor and Dean of the School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati.
Vikas Mehta, Professor of Urbanism at the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati.
Miodrag Mitrašinović, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
BIOS
Clara Irazábal is Professor and Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program (URSP) in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) at the University of Maryland (UMD). In her research and teaching, she explores the interactions of culture, politics, and placemaking, and their impact on community development and socio-spatial justice in Latin American cities and US Latinx, immigrant, and minority communities. Among numerous publications, she is the editor of Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here (Routledge 2014) and Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy, and Public Space in Latin America (Routledge 2008, 2015).
Vera Tângari is an architect and urbanist, Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She is also Associate Researcher at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University, and coordinator of the Research Group ‘Open Spaces Systems in Rio de Janeiro’ which focuses on urban and landscape morphology, green areas distribution and evaluation, and natural and cultural heritage as associated to urban and architectural planning and design.
Timothy Jachna is Dean of the School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. His recent research and publications deal with psycho-sociological aspects of the planning, design, construction, inhabitation and critique of urban environments, spanning scales from the object to the regional plan. He is the author of Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square: Producing Public Space in the Mediated City (Springer 2021) and co-editor of The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Routledge 2021).
Vikas Mehta is a Professor of Urbanism at the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. His research explores the various dimensions of urbanity through the exploration of place as a social and ecological setting and as a sensorial art. Mehta is the co-editor of Public Space Reader (Routledge 2021); Companion to Public Space (Routledge 2020); editor of Public Space (Routledge 2015), an anthology of 98 chapters; co-author of 101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (2018); and author of The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space (Routledge 2013) that received the 2014 Book Award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Miodrag Mitrašinović is a Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design. His scholarly work focuses on the role of design as catalyst for critical urban transformations, and the
infrastructural dimensions of public space, specifically at the intersections of urban and public design, social justice, and public policy. Miodrag is the co-editor of The Emerging Public Realm of the
Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Routledge 2021); Public Space Reader (Routledge 2021); Cooperative Cities (2018); editor of Concurrent Urbanities: Designing
Infra-structures of Inclusion (Routledge 2016); co-editor of Travel, Space, Architecture (Routledge 2009); and author of Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space (Routledge 2006).