REMOTE LECTURE
Daniel Bonilla: tab>| Praxis & Research

Tuesday, April 14
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM

Daniel Bonilla is an architect with an undergraduate degree from Los Andes University (Bogotá, 1986), Master degree in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, 1990) and further complementary studies at the College of Technology in Dublin and Milan Polytechnic. After a thorough professional experience in 1997 established in partnership with Marcela Albornoz an architecture and urban design studio “tab” (acronym for Bogota´s architectural workshop), where several projects from fields such as architecture, urban and industrial design, have been developed since. Daniel Bonilla actively participates as an academic, lecturing at several local and international universities. His work has been selected and awarded in biennials and international awards, and it has also been widely published in specialized media.

This event will be introduced and moderated by Julian Palacio.

This lecture will be aired on The Cooper Union website   from 6:30 - 7:30PM and followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:30PM. Please register in advance. Zoom account registration is required, you may register here . 
IN CONVERSATION
Human Body/Carbon City: The Environment From Two Different Scales, Elisa Iturbe and Austin Wade Smith

Wednesday, April 15
Zoom | 6:30PM

Elisa Iturbe and Austin Smith’s conversation will take on environmental issues from different scales and overlapping positions. Iturbe's remarks will focus on the possibility of framing the climate crisis as a spatial problem, and the tension this creates between the individual and the collective. Smith will discuss the rituals and technologies through which individuals perceive and perform their role as actors in ecological networks. Focus is given to the myriad of ways we embody the environment through the practices of everyday life. 

This discussion will take place as a public Zoom discussion starting at 6:30PM. Please register in advance. Zoom account registration is required, you may register here . 
ONLINE SCREENING
The Destruction of Memory: The Battle Against Culture and the Battle to Save it, with Director Tim Slade

Thursday, April 16
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM

Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over - it's been steadily increasing. In Syria and Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’, millennia of culture have been destroyed. The push to protect, salvage and rebuild has moved in step with the destruction.

This event will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani.

This documentary will be screened on The Cooper Union website  from 6:30 - 8:00PM and followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 8:00PM. Please register in advance. Zoom account registration is required, you may register here .