November 2024
Saturday, November 2nd & 30th from 9am to 10am Seiza Sitting-in-Stillness meditation. Seizais a universal method of sitting and breathing quietly for us to live peacefully moment by moment in our daily lives. We sit on a chair or a cushion on the floor and learn how to make the correct posture, breathe and put full strength in the lower belly. These are free virtual live sessions which anyone in the world can join. Please join the Zoom Meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89673869721?pwd=R01tUWMzL3IyT0JsOWtjWnFUeHRHdz09 Meeting ID: 896 7386 9721 Passcode: 552956
Sunday, November 3rd 8am-11:30am NYC Marathon. The 26.2-mile marathon will begin in Staten Island and continue throughout the boroughs. For street closures and information visit https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon
On Friday, November 15th & Saturday, November 16th from 9:30am – 4:50pm the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Architects’ Renewal Committee aka ARCH in Harlem will be held at Aaron Davis Hall. Aaron Davis Hall is located on the campus of City College @ 135th St & Convent Ave. Speakers include:
Friday, November 15th
Keynote “Race, Gentrification and the Financialization of Housing”
By Dr. Seumalu Elora Raymond, an urban planner and Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at Georgia Tech. She is interested in the financialization of housing and property in land, displacement and dispossession through housing systems, housing and disasters, and housing justice. Dr. Raymond has explored widening housing wealth inequality following the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, and the relationship between financialization of rental housing and eviction-led displacement. Dr. Raymond has ongoing projects on housing, displacement and disasters, including work on eviction and migration following disasters.
Response to Keynote:
By Moses Gates, Regional Plan Association’s Vice President for Housing and Neighborhood Planning, leading the organization’s planning, research and advocacy efforts in affordable housing, economic development, and urban design. He also leads RPA’s efforts to build international partnerships.
Since joining RPA in 2016, Moses has led RPA’s recommendations on affordability, economic development, and livable neighborhoods for the Fourth Regional Plan and authored or overseen several reports on housing policy and neighborhood planning. Prior to joining RPA, Moses was director of planning and community development for the Association for Neighborhood Housing Development, where he initiated New York City’s first Community Development Fellowship program.
Moses also has worked for New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as a nonprofit affordable housing developer, as a licensed New York City tour guide, and as a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute. He serves as vice president of the board of directors for Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City. He has a master’s of urban planning from Hunter College, a bachelor’s in history from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of the memoir “Hidden Cities.”
Saturday, November 16th
Panel 1: 10:30am-12pm Community Design in Harlem, Then and Now
Moderator: Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Kean University Brian Goldstein, Swarthmore College Wayne Benjamin, Land Use, Community Board 12 Melvin Mitchell, Bryant Mitchell Architects Roberta Washington, Roberta Washington Architects
Panel 2: 1:30pm-2:50pm Housing Harlem
Moderator: Milton Curry, Cornell University Department of Architecture Dominique Bernucca-Hood, Met Council on Housing Gregory Baggett, APRSNA Yvonne Stennett, Community League of the Heights Kirk Goodrich, Monadnock Development
Panel 3: 3:15pm-4:35pm 125th Street & the Shift of the Private Sector
Moderator: Shawn Rickenbacker, J. Max Bond Center, CCNY, SSA Curtis Archer, Harlem Community Development Corporation Kenneth Knuckles, New York City Planning Commission Marc Norman, New York University, Schack Institute of Real Estate Maxine Griffith, Trinity Church Wall Street
If you would like to attend the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Architects’ Renewal Committee go to Eventbrite and type in arch @ 60 symposium and put Harlem in as the location.