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Emilee Mathews | she/her/hers
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: "Harrison, Spring C" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 9:06 AM
To: ARCHAllFaculty
Subject: FW: UIUC NOMAS Symposium - African Art & Architecture Exhibit - Sat, April 3
The NOMAS Symposium “African Art & Architecture” agenda has been announced (attached).
Event: NOMAS Symposium - African Art & Architecture Exhibit
Date: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9AM - 5PM (CT)
Location: Zoom (Link to register: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdOuqqjIiEtHbJxTFiO6htHCx7OaR0fhs)
Event Description:
The NOMAS symposium emerged out of a need to provide a platform to elevate the voices of minoritized designers and planners and de-center the western imperialist standards of architecture. As professor Charles Davis II stated, "[the] history of architecture must consist of a cultural history of the built environment, not a 'canon' of 'good works'." The symposium strives to engage students and professionals, encouraging them to speculate about the future of design, spanning across the cultures of the world and topics such as sustainability, technology, social justice, and theoretical frameworks used by minoritized designers and communities.
This year, the African Art & Architecture Exhibit will explore the ways in which European settler colonialism ravaged different regions of the African continent and how it manifested in the built environment. It will explore the ways in which African lands served as the testing grounds for Modernist architecture and the ways that "vernacular" architectural styles combined and mixed with European styles to produce some of what is present in the built environment today. It will explore the ways some countries, after gaining independence, erected monuments to symbolize their freedom and autonomy. Finally, it will explore the ways that historical, traditional, and contemporary conceptions of space, ornamentation, design, and construction relate across different regions and African cultures.
Funding is provided by the University of Illinois Library Innovation Fund.
We have invited four guest speakers who will give presentations throughout the day on various topics concerning Afrocentric Architecture on the continent and throughout the diaspora.
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