Nordic CityMaking: BookClub
Wed 22 Sep
5–6PM
online (on Zoom)
in English

“A vital and open city does not occur naturally. There are places where
improvised activities and social interaction do not happen because the
rigidity of the urban environment does not allow this improvisation to
take place, planning for disorder is necessary.”
— Sendra&Sennett: Designing Disorder

Nordic CityMaking Book Club is an open meeting place where citymakers
across borders read and discuss cities.

We are honoured to invite to this very first NCM Book Club mr Richard
Sennett and mr Pablo Sendra. They will share the experiences and
thoughts that shaped their co-authored book ‘Designing Disorder –
Experiments and Disruptions in the City’ (2020), and engage in a
dialogue with participants online. The book was on The Guardian list of
the best books of 2020.

The discussion with mr Sennett and mr Sendra will take place on Zoom and
will require pre-registration. The discussion is moderated by Katja
Lindroos of Nordic CityMaking.

We’d like to thank Archinfo Finland for their kind support.

More info: https://nordiccitymaking.fi/ncm2021program
Sign up:
https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/nordic-citymaking-book-club-with-pablo-sendra-richard-sennett-tickets-169442205197


AUTHORS

Pablo Sendra

Dr Pablo Sendra is an architect and urban designer. He is an Associate
Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He combines his
academic career with professional work through his own urban design
practice, LUGADERO LTD, which focuses on facilitating co-design
processes with communities.
At UCL, he is the Director of the MSc Urban Design and City Planning
Programme and the Coordinator of the Civic Design CPD. He has carried
out action-research projects in collaboration with activists and
communities. His work with communities can be accessed in the
Community-Led Regeneration platform.
He is co-author of Designing Disorder (with Richard Sennett, 2020),
which has been translated into 7 languages, co-author of Community-Led
Regeneration (with Daniel Fitzpatrick, 2020) and co-editor of Civic
Practices (with Maria Joao Pita and CivicWise, 2017). He is part of the
City Collective for the journal City.


Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett currently serves as Chair of the UN Habitat Urban
Initiatives Group.  He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and
Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies
at MIT.
Previously, he founded the New York Institute for the Humanities, taught
at New York University and at the London School of Economics, and served
as President of the American Council on Work.
Over the course of the last five decades, he has written about social
life in cities, changes in labour, and social theory. His books include
The Hidden Injuries of Class, The Fall of Public Man,  The Corrosion of
Character, The Culture of the New Capitalism,  The Craftsman, and 
Building and Dwelling.
Among other awards, he has received the Hegel Prize, the Spinoza Prize,
an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University, and the Centennial
Medal from Harvard University.
Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago.
  He attended the Julliard School in New York, where he worked with Claus
Adam, cellist of the Julliard Quartet.  He then studied social relations
at Harvard, working with David Riesman, and independently with Hannah
Arendt.

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