Salon @ The Assembly of Trash
CEPA Gallery
Buffalo NY
April 14, 2012

Typically confined to the background of daily life, small objects and large scale infrastructures are today increasingly acknowledged as deeply intertwined with social experience. By revisiting the experience and construction of daily rituals and habits through an engagement with physical things, what questions might this engagement raise about the terrain of design practice today? How might traditionally “bad” objects such as trash or sewage be admitted into processes of architectural or urban design?

9-10:45
Jordan Geiger (B/a+p)
Adrian Blackwell (Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto)
Moderator: Dennis Maher, (B/a+p)

11:15-1
Brian Lonsway (Syracuse University School of Architecture)
Curt Gambetta (B/a+p)
Moderator: Hadas Steiner (B/a+p)