Imagining Just Transitions
Friday, May 19, 4:00pm–6:00pm
Just Transitions Initiative, Design and Innovation Building, room 331, UCSD
Or join us on Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/91097166642
With special guests:
José Bravo, executive director, Just Transition Alliance
mark! Lopez, organizer, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Jessica Ng, Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice
Tyler Norman, education coordinator, Just Transition Alliance
*All speakers except for Tyler Norman will be joining us in person
In this workshop, we'll be discussing how to imagine and enact just transitions with leading environmental justice organizers, scholars, and students. We will consider the tools that we use for imagining just transitions amidst and across geographies of inequality at different scales, from the international and regional scales to those of the neighborhood, the home, and the body. How are activists, scientists, artists, citizens imagining these transitions in specific ways; what are our expectations; what are the limits that constrain our imaginations and possibilities? Can we think of transition beyond economic frameworks that assume capitalist growth and beyond the economic language of efficacy and efficiency? What would “workable transitions” actually be like, and how might we enact them? Perhaps most importantly, who is the 'we' of these transitions – who and what guides this process and to what ends? At stake in this workshop is the question of what gets to count as legitimate knowledge in the struggle for a just transition; how to mobilize and articulate other modes of being and doing within but also against and beyond the academy?
Winter 2023
February 6, 2023 Science Studies Colloquium: “Model Production, Model Reproduction” a talk by Akshita Sivakumar
Arts & Humanities Building, RWAC 624
Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97925229861
12:15-1:45pm
February 7, 2023 JUST HAPPY HOUR
JTI Lab, DLab Room 331, Project Space D
5:00-6:30pm
February 16, 2023 NSP: “Atmospheres of Violence,” a conversation with Eric Stanley
Public Engagement Building 721
2:00-3:30pm
February 21, 2023 JUST HAPPY HOUR, PechaKucha Night, open call for Presenters!
Presentation Submission Form: https://forms.gle/nKPhW7M1gmeA4xVs9
JTI Lab, DLab Room 331, Project Space D
5:00-7:00pm
February 27, 2023 Science Studies Colloquium: “Water Justice and Technology,” a talk by Theodora Dryer
Arts & Humanities Building, RWAC 624
12:15-1:45pm
February 28, 2023 JUST HAPPY HOUR with Theodora Dryer
JTI Lab, DLab Room 331, Project Space D
5:00-6:30pm
March 9, 2023 NSP: "Elemental Border(s)" a guest dialogue event with Jason De León and Jorge Cuéllar
Public Engagement Building 721
4:00-6:00pm
March 16, 2023 Social Justice Conference: Keynote by Ruha Benjamin
City College
9:30-11:00am
Past events
2022
April 2, 2022 Imperial Valley Field Trip organized in collaboration with Farrah Karapetian (USD Art Dept.)
departing 9:00am
April 7, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Talk/workshop with Akshita Sivakumar, PhD Candidate, UCSD
5:15 - 6:15pm
April 14, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Talk/workshop with artist Hans Baumann
5:15 - 6:15pm
April 14, 2022 Cities Tech group reading Ruth Wilson Gilmore
9:00am
April 16, 2022 Surveillance capitalism, borders, and police with Cory Doctorow, Sarah T. Hamid, Pedro Rios, and Khalid Alexander organized by Tech Workers Coalition
April 21, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR
5:15-6:15pm
April 22, 2022 NSP Coffee Reading Dialogues: Jason De Leon, Sepúlveda // Carolina Caycedo and Ofelia Zepeda
10:00am-12:00pm
April 28, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR
5:15-6:15pm
April 25, 2022 “Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India”, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, co-sponsored with South Asia Institute (SAI)
April 26, 2022 Guest talk/workshop with UXO Architects (Ashton Hamm, Matthew Ridgeway, Alice Armstrong), working on projects with Wiyot Tribe
May 5, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR
5:15-6:15pm
May 6, 2022 Cities Tech group reading A Third University is Possible by la paperson
9:00am
May 12, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973. Book Talk by Ayala Levin, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA
5:15-6:15pm
May 19, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR
5:15-6:15pm
May 22, 2022 NSP Coffee Reading Dialogues: Russell Roberts Bordewaters
10:00am-12:00pm
May 26, 2022 Cities Tech group reading Juan del Nido
9:00am
May 26, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design. Book talk by Ginger Nolan, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California
5:15-6:15pm
June 1, 2022 USP Colloquium: Book launch & discussion, Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas, edited by Fernando Luiz Lara and Felipe Hernandez
June 2, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR
5:15-6:15pm
June 4, 2022 Decolonizing Regionalism Workshop. Supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute.
1:00 - 3:00pm
June 6, 2022 NSP Spring Workshop: Border(ings), Refusals and Regeneration
August 18-19, 2022 Prefiguring and Resisting Tech: Towards Just Transitions Workshop (Zoom)
2021
November 16, 2021 Mariel Garcia Llorens, with Davide Carpano as discussant on “Pushing fintech” (JTI Infrastructural Transitions series)
November 19, 2021 Cities Tech Reading Group, Against Scale: Provocations and Resistances to Scale Thinking by Hanna and Park and The Politics of Scaling by Pfotenhauer et al. (email vkhovanskaya@ucsd.edu for information)
November 29, 2021 Manfredo Tafuri reading group
December 7, 2021 (TBC) Guest Speaker Dialogue Series, Nature Space and Politics: Bobby Wallace, Cathy Gere & Boatema Boateng: sitting in, praying, holding on as long term refusals to border wall// lithium extractions
January 2021 JTI launch event
Feb 4, 2022 “Legalities for Living”, Lecture & seminar for Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Doctoral research residencyprogram
February 16, 2022 “How should we teach midcentury modernism?”, Lecture for College Art Association annual conference
April 27, 2022 “Beyond Critical Regionalism: Coloniality and the Region”, Panel at the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference
May 2022 Decolonizing Regionalism conference at UCSD
Spring 2022 Struggles for Real Utopias Workshop
Spring 2023 Real Utopias at the Edgelands Conference