Wed, Sep 27
|CAPLA West Building, Sundt Gallery
Site Cycles
Workshops, Curation, Research and Teaching: Emerging Faculty Fellowship Lecture by Noémie Despland-Lichtert
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2023, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM MST
CAPLA West Building, Sundt Gallery, 1040 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
About the event
"Site Cycles" will present Despland-Lichtert’s multidisciplinary practice investigating the cycles of change in the production of urban, infrastructural, built and natural landscapes. Through novel approaches to the topics of Site and Representation, it will discuss historical issues, the current moment and projections of possible futures. Overall, the lecture will offer a brief overview of Despland-Lichtert’s pedagogical methodology, previous professional work and ambitions for the CAPLA Emerging Faculty Fellowship.
Refreshments will be served.
About the Speaker
Noémie Despland-Lichtert (she/her) is an educator, designer and curator. Her research and scholarship encompass architecture, landscape, ethnic studies and public history, with a specific interest in fieldwork, landscape of resistances and site-specific histories. She is a co-director of Roundhouse Platform.
Despland-Lichtert holds a Post-professional Master of Architecture from McGill and a Master of Curatorial Practices from the University of Southern California. Her professional experience includes working at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and in the…