AIA Kansas City: The American Institute of Architects

Event Details:

INFORMAL URBANISMS: THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project, and Art through Architecture, a partnership of Charlotte Street Foundation and American Institute of Architects-KC, are pleased to host Informal Urbanisms: The Production of Space in the Developing World, a provocative public program organized by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, founding partners of AGENCY, a design and research practice in NYC.

The program on January 6, 6:30 at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, includes a screening of the feature-length documentary film Garbage Dreams: Raised in the Trash Trade, which follows the Zaballeen, Cairo’s traditional trash collectors, also known as “garbage people.” After the screening, Kripa and Mueller will host and moderate a panel discussion concerning emerging conditions in disadvantaged and marginalized urban populations around the world. Panelists include Toby Lunn, Mechanical Engineer; Maureen Lunn, Southtown Foundation / MA International Studies (University of Kansas); Andrew Mikhael, RA, LEEP AP; and Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of AGENCY, who will also present recent architectural and infrastructural proposals.

Event Registration:

  • Date:
  • January 6, 2010 (6:30pm)
  • Location:
  • Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina
    1000 West 25th Street, Kansas City, MO / 816.221.5115

  • Fee:
  • Free

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