It was an honor to be part of the panel speakers at the Socially Engaged Artistic Practice Forum hosted by Professional Arts Consortium on October 7, 2020. The discussion on the topic of “Community Engagement through Design” was moderated by Yoonjee Koh, Director of Intermediate Architecture Studios & Faculty at Boston Architectural College.
ProArts: http://www.proarts.org/
Socially Engaged Artistic Practice Forum: http://www.proarts.org/socially-engaged-artistic-practice-series
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Hi everyone, I hope you are staying safe and healthy wherever you are.
I am sharing a new virtual program that my colleague and I are starting this tomorrow (April 23rd, 2020). As new co-chairs of the Global Practice Network at Boston Society for Architecture, we are hosting the first meeting with the topic of the pandemic.
Read MoreThis article has been submitted to the EDCO Grant Committee in May, 2019. Since I had not had the chance to share it anywhere besides submitting to the committee, I wanted to share it here with you. (Thank you for stopping by)
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In summer 2018, I was in Ghana for about three weeks to install public art. Since executing this project raised so many questions, from general ones to the more personal ones, I would like to share some of these questions and challenges we had, rather than merely reporting the day-to-day journey.
Read MoreI was invited to gave a lecture with the topic of "something extra" at the Boston Japanese Researchers Forum at MIT. A huge thanks to the BJRF community for inviting me to be part of this Forum. The lecture was about art and architecture, and in-between. The topic relates to the idea that seemingly unnecessary aspects of the design (not necessarily functional nor useful) may generate new value. It was a great opportunity to be able to share some thoughts and ideas from the perspective of an architect, with people from a variety of (mostly-non-architecture) fields. I truly appreciated their comments and the conversations I had with the participants.
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