UC Davis Events

May 22, 2020

UC Placemaking is excited to welcome Howard Rheingold (virtually!) to UC Davis as part of the Placemaking speaker series. Do we need physical spaces for creative placemaking? Can we manage to create a sense of community while being geographically separated due to COVID-19? Please join us on Friday, May 22nd for a digital discussion on virtual communities with the man who first coined the terminology in the 1980s, Howard Rheingold. Rheingold, a professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford, has been part of digitally-mediated social communication since WELL, the first electronic forum. He has investigated its capabilities in detail in his books The Virtual Community (1993) and Smart Mobs (2002), and is widely recognized as an influential voice surrounding modern communication technology.

February 5, 2020

UC Placemaking is excited to welcome Eric Bunge of Brooklyn based nARCHITECTS to UC Davis as part of the Placemaking speaker series. Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived—or in the architects’ words, Almost Buildings.

November 9th, 2019

UC Placemaking is excited to welcome inventors, artists and activists Alex Hornstein and Hannah Liongoren to speak at UC Davis as part of the Placemaking speaker series. Alex and Hannah will be sharing their stories of innovation, technology, holography and sustainable communities. UC Placemaking is a multicampus initiative that seeks to enrich the connection between people and place through the arts and design. This free talk is open to all and will be followed by refreshments. Generous support has been provided by Imagining America, the UC Davis Department of Design and The University of California.

UC Placemaking is excited to welcome artist, educator, and activist Keith "K-Dub" Williams to speak at UC Davis as part of the Placemaking speaker series. K-Dub will be sharing his story of youth empowerment and community investment that drove the creation of Oakland's first world-class permanent concrete skatepark, Town Park.

Erin McElroy & Carla Leshne

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project(AEMP) helped kick off the placemaking Initiative Lecture Series. AEMP is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting the dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes. Working with a number of community partners and in solidarity with numerous housing movements, they study and visualize new entanglements of global capital, real estate, technocapitalism, and political economy.