Nordic CityMaking Book Club #1

We are honoured to invite to this very first NCM Book Club mr Richard Sennett and mr Pablo Sendra. They will share the experiences and thoughts that shaped their co-authored book ‘Designing Disorder – Experiments and Disruptions in the City’ (2020), and engage in a dialogue with participants online. The book was on The Guardian list of the best books of 2020.

The discussion with mr Sennett and mr Sendra will take place on Zoom and will require pre-registration.

NB: Due to force majeure reasons, the starting time of the event has been changed: NCM Book Club will start at 5 pm (Helsinki time). Thank you for your understading!

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Guest Speakers

Pablo Sendra

Dr Pablo Sendra is an architect and urban designer. He is an Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He combines his academic career with professional work through his own urban design practice, LUGADERO LTD, which focuses on facilitating co-design processes with communities.

At UCL, he is the Director of the MSc Urban Design and City Planning Programme and the Coordinator of the Civic Design CPD. He has carried out action-research projects in collaboration with activists and communities. His work with communities can be accessed in the Community-Led Regeneration platform.

He is co-author of Designing Disorder (with Richard Sennett, 2020), which has been translated into 7 languages, co-author of Community-Led Regeneration (with Daniel Fitzpatrick, 2020) and co-editor of Civic Practices (with Maria Joao Pita and CivicWise, 2017). He is part of the City Collective for the journal City.

Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett currently serves as Chair of the UN Habitat Urban Initiatives Group. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT.

Previously, he founded the New York Institute for the Humanities, taught at New York University and at the London School of Economics, and served as President of the American Council on Work.

Over the course of the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labour, and social theory. His books include The Hidden Injuries of Class, The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, The Culture of the New Capitalism, The Craftsman, and Building and Dwelling.

Among other awards, he has received the Hegel Prize, the Spinoza Prize, an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University, and the Centennial Medal from Harvard University.

Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago. He attended the Julliard School in New York, where he worked with Claus Adam, cellist of the Julliard Quartet. He then studied social relations at Harvard, working with David Riesman, and independently with Hannah Arendt.

Participants

Participating in the open discussion are Hanna Harris & Tommi Laitio / City of Helsinki, Mari Vaattovaara & Oskar Rönnberg / University of Helsinki, Nitin Sawhney / Aalto University, Elina Kiiski-Kataja / Ellun kanat, Stuba Nikula / Helsinki Events Foundation, Pauliina Seppälä / Yhteismaa among others. The moderator is Katja Lindroos / Nordic CityMaking.

We’d like to thank Archinfo Finland for their kind support.

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