The University of Waterloo is celebrating the legacy of Professor Emeritus Andrew Levitt through one of their four term speaker series: Praxes of Care–attention, action, communication and maintenance.
The series is curated by faculty, staff, and representatives of student groups: Treaty Lands Global Stories, Bridge, and the Sustainability Collective.
“Praxes of Care asks, ‘what is an architecture of care?’ Over four terms–Fall 2021 to Winter 2023–a series of conversations will bring together two or more architects, designers, researchers, artists, activists, and care workers to discuss care processes according to the themes of Attention, Action, Communication, and Maintenance,” says the University.
This semester, the institution will investigate action within a praxis of care: “In taking action within care practice, we first take on responsibility. To act in care also requires additional factors that care theorists Joan Tronto and Bernice Fisher identify as time, material resources, knowledge, and skill.”
The lineup includes:
Horizontal pedagogies: in practice
January 27th, 6:00pm
Jess Myers & Keri Monaghan
Moderated by Reza Nik
Horizontal pedagogies: nurturing culture
March 3rd, 6:00pm
Jelisa Blumberg & Curry Hackett
Moderated by Ozayr Saloojee & Jaliya Fonseka
“Etuaptmumk”: two-eyed seeing and design
March 10th, 6:00pm
Dr. Albert Marshall & Richard Kroeker
Moderated by John McMinn
Horizontal pedagogies: in classrooms
March 17th, 6:00pm
Anna María León & Pelin Tan
Moderated by Paniz Moayeri
Living with water
March 24th, 8:00pm
Kongjian Yu & Alpa Nawre
Moderated by Jane Mah Hutton