• 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

  • 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?