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Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice Panel Discussion

Panel discussion on North African nomadic architecture and other models of self-emancipation through architecture and design. With Ekene Ijeoma, Ron Morrison, and Mabel O. Wilson. Moderated by Rujeko Hockley.

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, designer, and fellow at The Kennedy Center and Urban Designer Forum, and visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works at the intersections of design and technology, creating contemporary representations and interventions around social-political issues.

Rujeko Hockley is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is co-curator of the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Additional projects at the Whitney include Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017).

Ron Morrison is a designer, artist, and urbanist. They collaborated with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and has had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They teach in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design.

Mabel O. Wilson is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation where she directs the program for Advanced Architectural Research. She is author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (University of California Press, 2012).











When: Thu., Mar. 1, 2018 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St. (Grand-Broome Sts.)
212-219-2166
Price: Free
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Panel discussion on North African nomadic architecture and other models of self-emancipation through architecture and design. With Ekene Ijeoma, Ron Morrison, and Mabel O. Wilson. Moderated by Rujeko Hockley.

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, designer, and fellow at The Kennedy Center and Urban Designer Forum, and visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works at the intersections of design and technology, creating contemporary representations and interventions around social-political issues.

Rujeko Hockley is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is co-curator of the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Additional projects at the Whitney include Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017).

Ron Morrison is a designer, artist, and urbanist. They collaborated with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and has had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They teach in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design.

Mabel O. Wilson is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation where she directs the program for Advanced Architectural Research. She is author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (University of California Press, 2012).

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