april 22, 2021
Contested ground claims, occupancies and appropriations are often played out over the most unstable of grounds – sites of flood, flow, subsidence, slide, as well as ground rendered fugitive through increasing aridity and/or misuse. This conversation is intended to consider the intersection of geo-/spatio- political forces and geophysical instability, including what it means to occupy or be forced to occupy (or flee) risky ground. It additionally aims to imagine how grounds deemed instable have the potential to be sites of possibility, for alternate modes and models of existence.
MODERATOR: Davi Schoen
USC Faculty, Landscape Designer, STOSS
Speaker: DILIP DA CUNHA
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University and Principal of Mathur | da Cunha
Speaker: DEBJANI DUTTA
Doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts
Speaker: KRISTINA LYONS
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker: ANURADHA MATHUR
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania and Principal of Mathur | da Cunha
Speaker: JUANITA SUNDBERG
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia