UFI MAK – Urban Future Initiative

Urban Future Initiative
Center for Art and Architecture @ The Schindler House L.A.
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First Session: April 5-June 6, 2008
  • Marco Kusumawijaya (Indonesia)
  • Towards Sustainability: Changing the Urban Habitat and Habitus
Second Session: June 19-August 20, 2008
  • Urban Think Tank, Luis Efrén Santana (Venezuela)
  • Latino Urbanism(s)? Building Bridges
Third Session: September 8-November 9, 2008
  • Ismall Farouk (South Africa)
  • Creative Strategies for a Spatial Justice Program
Fourth Session: November 24, 2008-January 25, 2009
  • Xiangning Li (China)
  • Heterotopias: Themed Suburbs in Shanghai and Los Angeles
Fifth Session: February 2-April 11, 2009
  • Alexia Leon (Peru)
  • LA-LIMA: Probing the Urban Desert
Sixth Session: May 8-July 2, 2009
  • Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassibi (Iran/Netherlands)
  • Satellite Geography
Seventh Session: July 13-September 13, 2009
  • Alaa Mohammed Ahmed Khaled and Salwa Ali Rashad (Egypt)
  • A Walk in the City

2008/09 UFI Fellowship Cycle

Urban Future Initiative Digital Roundtable
August 10-15, 2009
Moderated by: Samuel Assefa, Associate AIA, LEED AP

Subject: Cost Benefits of Mega-events in the Context of Global Competition

Participants: Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai; Ismail Farouk; Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad; Xiangning Li; Hubert Klumpner and Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban Think-Tank

Upcoming
Digital Roundtable 02
October 2009
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