Michael Young and Bryan Young are brothers and also architects, teachers, sons-of-teachers, music lovers, products of 1980s southern California suburbia, post-punk, rock collectors, of skateboards, of sometimes high-scores, or forts and other things that they will be discussing.

Michael is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture. He is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. Bryan is an assistant professor adjunct at the School of Architecture. He is the founder of Young projects.

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Tei Carpenter is an architectural designer, educator and founder of Agency—Agency, an award-winning New York City and Toronto-based architecture and design studio. The practice works on projects at a variety of scales including buildings, infrastructures, objects, and environments. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches design studios and seminars.

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Brenda Zhang (Bz) is a designer, artist, organizer, and educator based on Tongva land (Los Angeles, USA). They are a founding member of SPACE INDUSTRIES and an organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University.

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Brussels-based Rotor was founded in 2006 as a research and design practice that “investigates the organization of the material environment.” In 2016, the firm launched Rotor Deconstruction, a cooperative that organizes the reuse of construction materials through the dismantling, processing, and trading of salvaged building components. 

Rotor cofounder Lionel Devlieger is a researcher, designer, educator, and exhibition maker. His work focuses on the material implications of contemporary culture, especially in the realm of architecture. Devlieger has taught architecture at UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, and London’s AA School. He has curated and designed, with Rotor, exhibitions on architecture and material culture, and in 2018 coauthored Deconstruction et reemploi, a reference textbook on building component reuse.

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In this artist talk, Goldin+Senneby revisit this meeting of the starfish and the citrus thorn from the perspective of living with an autoimmune condition and a growing discomfort with the very language which frames such a condition. A sense that the metaphors themselves are a thorn in the side.

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Emmanuel Pratt is cofounder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation (SWF), a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side. SWF engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration of social, environmental, and economic resources in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment. Drawing on the transformative possibilities of Regenerative Neighborhood Development, defined by SWF as an “emergent design process that dynamically cultivates intentional acts of civic arts and participatory design as integral components to reimagine the urban ecology of the built environment,” SWF has transformed four contiguous city blocks into The Commonwealth, “a real-world, physical manifestation of how built spaces reflect and impact understanding of the common and the collective.”

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-- David Heymann, AR'85, FAIA

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