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Jan 21st, 2020
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Race, Space, and the Built Environment: Exploring the Intersection of Place and Social (in)Justice

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University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

969 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Race, Space, and the Built Environment: Exploring the Intersection of Place and Social (in)Justice

Join SSA Assistant Professor and author Eve L. Ewing, who will moderate a panel including Chicago-based photographer, architecture critic, and author Lee Bey, New Orleans-based design justice advocate Bryan Lee, and Chicago-based artist and activist Amanda Williams for a discussion exploring the intersection of race and social policy and their impact on Chicago’s built environment and beyond.

About the Moderator:

Eve L. Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is a qualitative sociologist of education.Professor Ewing's book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She also writes in other genres for broad audiences; she is author of the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919 and writes the Ironheart series for Marvel Comics. Her work has appeared in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. She is a Faculty Affiliate at UChicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

About the Panelists:

Lee Bey, has maintained a civic presence in Chicago for more than two decades in the fields of arts, culture, architecture and urban planning. Bey is vice president of the DuSable Museum of African America History, where his duties include overseeing exhibition planning, education, programming and civic engagement. A former Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic, he is also an active writer, lecturer and photographer of the built environment. His architectural writing, photography and reportage have appeared in a variety of places including The Guardian, the U.K.’s Monocle Radio, CITE Magazine, Chicago Reader and Crain’s Chicago Business. In addition, his photography of farm workers housing in Alamosa, CO and Chicago's Archer Courts apartments were featured in the museum exhibit Wohnmodelle: Experiment und Alltag, which debuted in 2008 in Austria's Kunstlerhaus. His Chicago architectural photography was the subject of a 2011 exhibit Chicago: Then and Now--a Story by Lee Bey at the historic City Gallery. His latest photo exhibit, Chicago: a Southern Exposure, documenting the rich and largely overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side, is featured in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and hosted by the DuSable Museum. 

Bryan Lee, is the Design Director of Colloqate and a national Design Justice Advocate. Lee has a decade of experience in the field of architecture Lee is the founding organizer of the Design Justice Platform and organized the Design As Protest National Day of Action. Bryan has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the National Organization of Minority Architects.

Amanda Williams, is a visual artist who trained as an architect at Cornell University. Amanda’s practice blurs the distinction between art and architecture. Her projects use color as a lens to highlight the complexities of the politics of race, place, and value in cities. She is best known for her series, "Color(ed) Theory," in which she painted the exterior of soon-to-be-demolished houses on Chicago's south side using a culturally-charged color palette to mark the pervasiveness of vacancy and blight in black urban communities. The landscapes in which she operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshaped most inner cities.

Program Agenda

5:30pm Doors Open

6:00pm Opening Remarks / Introductions

6:10pm Panel Discussion

7:30pm Program Ends

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Co-sponsored by The University of Chicago 

  • School of Social Service Administration
  • Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
  • The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 

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* This event is free and open to the public.

* Registration is required to attend. However, seating is limited on a first come, first served basis; capacity of the SSA lobby is 250 people.

* Doors open 30 minutes before the event begins. Please arrive early to claim your seat. Any unclaimed seats will be released 10 minutes before the event begins. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket on Eventbrite so others may register.

* This event will not be Livestreamed.

* Credited Education Units (CEUs) will not be offered for this program.

* Public transportation to the event is highly recommended. Free street parking is available along the midway. All open University parking lots are free after 5:00pm. For parking options, please visit: https://safety-security.uchicago.edu/services/visitor_parking/

* Persons in need of accommodation, or for questions about the event, contact events@ssa.uchicago.edu or call 773.702.9700.

Photo Credit: Lee Bey