may 6, 2021
This conversation will focus particularly on the body and its relationship to the ground, specifically those bodies that negotiate the ground outside what have been deemed “normative” frameworks. It will consider how the ground is structured by dominant systems to which Others must conform. Queer, gendered, disabled, and racialized bodies, as well as non-human bodies are all distinct in their ground negotiations but share their exclusion from hegemonic structures of ground formation. Grouping these categories of variant bodies is not intended to exaggerate the process of Othering, but to discuss ways to mobilize across difference to upend structures of exclusion.
MODERATOR: Gail Dubrow
Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Architecture
speaker: Heather Davis
Assistant Professor, Culture and Media, The New School
Speaker: Aroussiak Gabrielian
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism and Director of the Landscape Futures Lab, USC School of Architecture
Speaker: Jack Halberstam
Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University
speaker: aimi hamraie
Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University