Symposium: Socio-spatial changes in rural-urban Latin America

Date/Time:	Thursday, 04 Apr 2013 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Location:	Memorial Union and College of Design
Cost:	Free
Contact:	Clare Cardinal-Pett, Silvina Lopez-Barrera
Phone:	515-294-8711
Channel:	College of Design
Categories:	Conferences
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This symposium brings together scholars, designers and students from several disciplines for discussion of contemporary Latin American urbanism. Participants will share case studies of design interventions, research projects and public policy initiatives that address a variety of historical factors and current issues such as housing in the condition of informality, environmental systems and the public realm.

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Sessions are free and open to the public.

Schedule of Events
Thursday April 4
10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Gold Room, Memorial Union
Introductions
Presentations by Luis Hernan Saenz and Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano, followed by discussion. Bring your lunch.
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5-7 p.m., Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
Symposium presentations and panel discussion
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano, Architecture, UPC, Lima, Peru
Cornelia Flora, Sociology ISU
Jan Flora, Sociology ISU
Monica Haddad , CRP ISU
Luis Hernan Saenz, Architect and Urban Planner, Bogota, Colombia
Max Viatori, Anthropology ISU
Moderator: Jane Ronegrud, ISU CRP

Friday, April 5
1-6 p.m., 130 College of Design
Interdisciplinary Design Studio Project Review of work in progress
"Interventions in the Informal Andean City"
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Symposium presenters and topics
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano PhD, Architect and theorist, UPC, Lima, Peru
Director of research groups on socio-spatial and aesthetic case studies, both in suburban pueblos jovenes and middle-class dwellings.
"Formal patterns in Lima's informal settlements/Informal patterns in formal dwellings"

Luis Hernan Saenz, Architect, Bogota, Colombia
Urban sustainability consultant and member of nonprofit design collaborative, Fundacion Juligon
"Learning from Informality"

Monica Haddad, Community and Regional Planning, ISU
Associate Professor and Director of the Geographic Information Systems Certificate
Social justice-related issues in both Brazil and the American Midwest.
"Socio-spatial changes and urban amenities: The case of parks in Curitiba, Brazil"

Cornelia Flora, Sociology ISU
Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Jan Flora, Sociology ISU
Extension Community Sociology and Professor of Sociology.
"Climate change adaptation in vulnerable Latin America communities: the implications for rural-urban change"

Max Viatori, Anthropology ISU
Dynamics of social exclusion and their contestation, primarily in South America
"Race and Latin America's Urban/Rural Divides"

Jane Ronegrude, Community and Regional Planning, ISU
As moderator for the evening panel session, Jane has posed several questions to provoke discussion:
-- How do we understand socio-spatial change in the Latin American context?
-- Rural-urban: continuum or divide in contemporary Latin America?
-- What does it mean to discuss the "rural" in an urbanized Latin America?
-- Where do we see connections, divisions, and transformations in the social, political, and/or built environments?
-- How do we make sense of everyday spaces of risk and belonging in this context?
-- What does all of this teach us about Latin American urbanism?