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I’d like to thank the U of T Daniels Faculty of Architecture and Karen Kubey for organizing this talk. Bringing architecture together with human rights is an important discussion and 90 minutes seems far too short. Many more questions were raised in my mind than could be addressed given the constraints of time. That said, I was a little disappointed in the outcome. I suppose my disappointment was founded on the fact that it left me wanting more, much more. Just a few points: Karen Kubey • She mentioned ‘7 aspects’ of housing rights and said 5 of them relate to architecture - affordability, habitability, access, location, and cultural adequacy. I would say the other 2 the OHCHR identifies - security of tenure and availability of services - relate just as well as the other five. Karen, though, only lists the 5 areas where she sees a relationship but she doesn’t describe what that relationship might be. I realize that she can’t afford to spend a lot of the time better taken up with the guest speakers but, still, such a description is central to addressing ‘Architecture and the Right to Housing’. • She quotes (at 4:08-4:18) Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center: ‘When housing is a commodity, we have to beg for it. When it’s a right we can demand it.’ Good point! • Karen raises two questions to be answered by the discussion: o What does the right to housing mean in practice? o How can designers contribute? Important questions. I think they should have been much more directly answered. Leilani Farha We need a transformation, particularly in advocacy. • Entrust human rights to its proper stewards - the most vulnerable. Moving towards self-determination. This requires LISTENING • The right-to-housing movement - cross-sectoral. • For architecture - use your relationships (real estate, development), ask the right questions. Really her only point of intersection with the profession. Use what leverage you have to advocate for the ‘proper stewards’ I think she could have said more about 'decommodification' of housing. This relates to somehow mitigating the ongoing process of gentrification, which, in turn, relates to the right to housing. Paul Karakusevic Paul, as expected, showed the work of his firm. It includes current work on Regent Park (Phase 4 and 5 I think he said). His focus was on the projects. As such he indirectly addressed Karen’s second question (How can designers contribute?). His response, as I interpreted it, was ‘design beauty’. True, that should be part of the job of an architect. However, there were many questions left about the process of design and the decision-making. • (53:20-:40) - ‘housing estates seen as ‘monocultural’ pushing (in Regent Park) for an ‘active ground floor and public realm’. This is something the Hong Kong Housing Authority was pushing towards since the 1970s. This is not a new/progressive idea. What might push this further is who governs that ‘ground floor and public realm’. Is it leased to 7-11 or is it a co-op grocery store? A walk-in clinic? etc etc. • (54:40 - ) ‘the residents were very supportive of the process’. But the process is not described. Nor was any innovation in the architect’s engagement in that process. Q&A One question brought forward the issue of process: “I’m wondering if there is a different process that is undertaken in a project that involves the right to housing” Paul - responded by talking about house types but not about the process Leilani - talked about ‘meaningful engagement’ - this is similar to Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation (1969), also Turner’s Freedom to Build (1972). I would still like Karen's 2 questions answered. I have been asking myself these questions now for 30+ years and I don't think I have anywhere near an adequate answer to them. I see that the right to housing is there (see Art. 25 of the UDHR) but acting as a design professional to protect and promote that right is still quite a fuzzy proposition. The best response I have seen is in Community Design Centers that started to pop up after Max Bond Jr. started The Architect's Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH) back in 1964.

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Winnie Wong is never wrong.

Amy Adler must have key testimony about Dan Markel and his situation in the run-up to his murder, of which Charlie Adelson has been convicted with Donna Adelson awaiting trial.

Would love to know who asked the question at 103 mins about the implicit assumption that technical lands might be nefarious -- if you know who it was let's get in touch! I'm very interested in that topic

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Amy Adler who was dating Dan Markel when he was murdered by the Adelsons… 😢

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This is amazing! Thanks for recording and uploading! I was supposed to come in person but unfortunately caught with Covid, the livestream is just perfect for those who can't attend but eager for the knowledge!

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I enjoyed that... Im a big fan of Le Corbusier's later works... but not so much his early stuff... but it was fascinating to see models of his unbuilt projects

Jeanie Kim, you are doing a great Job.

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I live in the Carden alvar year-round, interesting video. Most of these plants are in my yard. The panic grass really surprised us, very unique. Bluets, also some tetraneuris herbacea bloomed. I tried to make a wildflower patch in garden soil and all of them died because it's not the same as the arid Carden soil.

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What is the concept of Valencia? It feed Europe, so it's a bowl. wow... the ignorance in that statement is just amazing, I don't understand how you westerner's work mann I don't know if your structures are actually beautiful(the newer ones) or if they are just good looking for social media...

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I recently completed a study of Saynatsalo. It is a masterpiece of geometric patterning with extensive use of the golden rectangle as well as harmonic ratios. It places Aalto on a new level. What appears as a random structure has a thorough and considered form entirely concealed until now. The video of the study is on my YT channel.

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May Balkrishna Doshi rest in peace.

I AM a Gardener/Garden Designer with an ecological focus and am very glad to have listened to Kathryn's talk. I wish she practiced/had an office in Toronto. I would do whatever she needed to be done to learn from her wisdom and be a part of helping to make the human/insect/animal environment a harmonious existence...As it should be.Always. All Ways.

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excellent presentation, thank you!

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Christopher Alexander, Architect who coined 'Pattern Language' was acutely aware of human's connections to place in terms of spirit and emotional ties...and created a design language for it ...btw..if you are going to record the question answer.. please better position the mikes ...either one was ok or the other...

Do future students have to prepare a portfolio to apply visual studies?

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Thank you so Much for sharing this wonderful lecture

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What the f*ck are these people babbling about? How do you get an education to compete in the outside world with these type of crap?

U of T needs to do a better job showing their studio facilities and student work- especially sculpture and painting because on their website I see barely any student work and no pictures of their metal working space. This is alarming to a prospective art student at U of T. Please upload more details and images. There’s little known about your program. This video was hard to follow and you guys didn’t even show us your laser cutting station and metal working room….

amazong presnetation! great summary of indigenous ways of life and how that applies into a field that affects everyone

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Zoom life has been frustrating, but it also levels the field for access to illuminating, history-altering lectures like this.

Awesome narration, Emmett! This is an incredible video promoting the campus and the Master of Forest Conservation program!

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