Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Society for Cultural Anthropology

(2-0435) Design Matters (Part 1)

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizer(s)

• Christien Tompkins

  Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of California Los Angeles

• Rebecca Journey

  Ph.D. Candidate
  University of Chicago

Chair(s)

• Christien Tompkins

  Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of California Los Angeles

Presenter(s)

• Christien Tompkins

  Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of California Los Angeles

• Rebecca Journey

  Ph.D. Candidate
  University of Chicago

• Federico Perez

  Assistant Professor of Urban Anthropology
  Portland State University

• Rachel Heiman

  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  The New School

• Mariel Gruszko

  PhD Candidate
  University of California, Irvine

• Christo Sims

  Assistant Professor
  University of California, San Diego

Discussant(s)

• Keith Murphy

  Professor
  University of California, Irvine

Presentations:

• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

  Designing Choice: New Orleans School Buses as Racial Infrastructure
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

  “The Miracle of Density”: The Politics of Urban Design and Densification in Downtown Bogotá
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  Pooled Politics: Stormwater Retention Parks and the Surreptitious Making of Environmental Citizens
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

  “In the End We Also Don’t Know”: Designing for and with Participation in Architecture
• 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

  Rethinking the Ethico-Political Character of Design
• 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

  Discussion