Transient Spaces Panel Discussion
Transient Spaces Panel Discussion
Mass migration is one of the most urgent issues confronting cities today. Continuous flows of people leaving and arriving challenge architects, planners and government officials to create infrastructural systems and spatial fabric of unparalleled resilience and elasticity. The ideas discussed in Transient Spaces seek to leverage the potential of transience as a force of resilience and opportunity in the design and operation of cities.
Suzan Wines is an architect and founding partner at I-Beam Design, an award-winning architecture and design firm based in New York City. She is also studio director and project architect at SITE- James Wines, LLC, and has served as New York correspondent to Domus Magazine. She has taught at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College. I-Beam's projects have been featured in numerous international books and publications, and exhibited at the Milan Architecture Triennale, the Venice Biennale, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Prince Charles' Royal Gardens, London, Grade European Center for Culture, Belgrade, Boston Architectural Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and AIA New York Center for Architecture.
Loukia Tsafoulia is an architect and educator. She is cofounder of PLB Studio and Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University in Pennsylvania. She holds an MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and she is a PhD candidate in the School of Architecture of the National University of Athens, Greece. Situated at the intersection of historical inquiry and critical practice, her work examines transiency in its various social and tectonic expressions. Focusing on the computational theory of design, her research explores the relationships between performative environments and scientific cybernetic experiments in Europe and the United
Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. He has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka and the U.A.E. His second book, In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea (2015) was nominated for an AIFC Book Prize in Non-Fiction. At MoMA, he has organized the exhibitions Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016-17), Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-89 (2017-18) and manages the Young Architects Program (YAP) as well as the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series, with the next exhibition, Reconstructions, opening in October 2020.