An Einhorn Center for Community Engagement Lecture Series
Overview:
Join us for a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders. Together, they will explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design in post-industrial cities, abandoned spaces, vacant lots, and economically declining zones.
This series complements the Spring 2025 HAUD
Course: ARCH 3819/5819: Architecture & Sustainability in Post-Industrial Cities.
Limits of Temporary Design for Abandoned Urban Zones
Speaker: Jill Desimini, landscape architecture director, University of Connecticut
Focus: Analyzes how temporary design solutions activate abandoned spaces but often fail to catalyze systemic change, offering lessons for designers and planners.
Time: April 10, 2025,10–11 a.m.
Location: Zoom
Free and open to the public.
