Title: Caribbean imaginar[ies]: spatial practices in Puerto Rico.
Lecture: Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at UIC/SoArch.
In the first lecture of the fall series at UIC/SoArch, we are excited to welcome Dr. Yazmín M Crespo Claudio (@y_crespo). The lecture, “Caribbean Imaginar[ies]: Spatial Practices in Puerto Rico,” focuses on counter-narratives as critical architectural, cultural, and spatial practices, striving for narratives of democratic pedagogy that oppose official normative views and practices of instruction and measurement. It is a praxis grounded in Freire’s perspectives, but which is extended through a dialogue with Ivan Illich, Édouard Glissant, Bell Hooks, Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, Mujer Intégrate Ahora, Luz Marie Rodríguez, Yara Maite Colón, and a community of thinkers and makers from the archipiélago de Puerto Rico. The archipelago is a familiar setting for the writer and poet Édouard Glissant, where the assemblage and its meanings are simultaneously singular and manifold. The presentation represents a form of archipelagic thinking in action; a cultural formation of time-space practices.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Visiting Assistant Professor and Garofalo Fellow Zehra Ahmed.
Free and open to all.
09.09-5:30pm
Room 1100 A+DS
845 W Harrison Street
Chicago, Illinois
