The Gift Exhibition: A Debate
Debate
November 13, 2024
11am-1pm
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
TV Lab
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Speakers: Ayisha Ida Baffoe-Ashun, Temuulen Enkhbat, Alice Korkor Ebeheakey, Uurtsaikh Sangi, Leigh House, Łukasz Stanek
The gift-giving of buildings is an overarching force of worldwide urbanization today. Corporate and personal philanthropy has been a vital and controversial agent in European and North American cities, while inhabitants of African, Asian, and South American cities are increasingly concerned about their social and technical infrastructure being overdependent on European, American, or Chinese donors. This event will reflect on the exhibition The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture (Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich) which shows how uneven negotiations around the moral, temporal, and racial dynamics of gift-giving have shaped and continue to shape urbanization processes in four cities: East Palo Alto (USA), Skopje (Macedonia), Kumasi (Ghana), and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
Topics:
Oblique Histories, Land Imaginaries
Convenors:
Leigh House, Łukasz Stanek , TV Lab
Friends:
Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich
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