The 2013 Urban Edge award event will be a symposium titled Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices curated by Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of WEISS/MANFREDI. Expanding the definition of ‘infrastructure’ to address an escalating set of design challenges that are at once cultural, architectural, and environmental, the symposium will host a series of cross-disciplinary talks and discussions between innovative architects, artists, ecologists, engineers, and theoreticians. Click for more...

Symposium Schedule

INTRODUCTIONS
10:00am, AUP170
Dean Robert Greenstreet
Chair Jim Wasley

REPOSITIONING INFRASTRUCTURE
10:30am, AUP170
Eric Bunge
Paul Mankiewicz
Anuradha Mathur
Mahadev Raman
Grace La (respondent)

INFRASTRUCTURE :UNSEEN FUTURES
2:00pm, AUP170
David van der Leer
Mary Miss
Keller Easterling
Kyle Reynolds (respondent)

EVOLUTIONARY INFRASTRUCTURE KEYNOTE LECTURE
4:30PM, ENGELMANN105
Michael A. Manfredi and Marion Weiss

Faculty Contact
Karl Wallick is coordinating this event. For more information, please contact him at wallick@uwm.edu

All events are occurring at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. The architecture building [AUP] is located at the corner of Maryland and Hartford. Panel sessions will occur in the ground floor auditorium [AUP170]. The final keynote lecture will take place in the Engelmann auditorium which is right next door to the architecture building. This event is free and open to the public.