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  • How Process Affects Outcomes: Slum upgrading in Buenos Aires

    Wolff Conference Room 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires (Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad, IVC) has launched an innovative slum upgrading program which uses participation as an instrument to achieve socio-economic integration and to reduce inequality. The following questions will be discussed: Which are the costs and benefits of participation? How process-projects can contribute to reducing social exclusion? What are the conditions to enable sustainability?

  • Brazil 2020: Politics and Economics

    Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, room I205 55 West 13th Street, Manhattan, United States

    Dr. Barbosa will discuss Brazil’s current political and economic challenges, a discussion that becomes relevant in a time where political changes, and demands for equality and transparency have sparked across Latin America.

  • ONLINE I Gamers from the South: Other Futures

    Online

    We will explore the idea of "literacy in the future" through video games.
    The authors of three video games will dialogue with allies of te 2084 Imagined Futures program from Colombia, the United States, and Argentina.

  • Blue Heart – Film Screening

    UL 105 - Hoerle Lecture Hall, The New School University Center 63 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

    SYNOPSIS: In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man and thus save utopia. The experiment fails as these beings are ...

  • Dialogue: SKINS OF THE FUTURE

    Online

    A public conversation between young Argentine imagineers and relevant personalities from Colombia. An exchange of experiences, desires, illusions and fears that arose at the moment of capturing what the authors felt, lived, dreamed or feared on their imaginary journey to 2084, following an itinerary based on the "Skins" by the artist Hundertwasser.

  • Book Launch · The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World

    Wolff Conference Room 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The inaugural volume in the Narrative Medicine series, The Tao of K-Drama is both scholarly and deeply personal. Drawing on Fullilove's work in community psychiatry and her lived experience as an African American woman, the book makes a compelling case for popular storytelling as a form of narrative medicine