11.16.08
Sunday, November 16th, 6 pm, The Metropolitan Exchange, 33 Flatbush Avenue, 6th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Matthew Stadler will give a short slide lecture introducing suddenly and the annotated reader, Where We Live Now, discussion to follow. Sponsored by the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
This event is free. (Books available for sale at the venue.)
How do Art and Writing Shape the City? A conversation with Thomas Sieverts, Fritz Haeg, Lisa Robertson, and Stephanie Snyder. Reed College, Portland, Ore. 10.5.08
suddenly sponsored six public discussions in Portland, Oregon, applying Thomas Sieverts’s work to questions about the new shapes of cities. The conversations were recorded and will be posted here over the coming weeks. This one, featuring Thomas Sieverts, artist and architect Fritz Haeg, writer Lisa Robertson, and curator Stephanie Snyder, took place on the Reed College campus on a Sunday afternoon, October 5. It asks: how do art and writing shape the city?
Conversation Panel at Reed College with Stephanie Snyder, Fritz Haeg, Lisa Robertson, Thomas Sieverts, Matthew Stadler and others [107:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAaron Betsky and Thomas Sieverts in an abandoned parking lot in Beaverton, Ore. 10.4.08
As part of the public conversations of suddenly, Aaron Betsky, director of the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture, joined Thomas Sieverts in conversation with Matthew Stadler at a dinner for 50 people, served one blustery, rainy night, October 4, in a makeshift shelter where several boulevards surround a disused parking lot fronting on a creek, in the middle of the booming city of Beaverton, Oregon.This event, a part of the back room, was one in a series of public discussions that suddenly hopes to carry out or inspire.
What can indigenous settlement patterns tell us about the contemporary city? Thomas Sieverts, Coll Thrush, Melissa Darby, and Doug Sackman, UO White Stag, Portland, Ore. 10.3.08
After Thomas Sieverts’s lecture, the public events room of the new UO building was host to a panel discussion on the relevance of indigenous urban settlement patterns to contemporary urban practices in the region of North Pacific America. On the panel were Coll Thrush, Melissa Darby, Doug Sackman and Thomas Sieverts, while Matthew Stadler moderated, incarnating his role as annotator of Where We Live Now.