CALL Fellows Forum // January 16th, 6:00pm //
How can design help urban communities prepare for environmental crises?
Featuring Peggy Shepard, Elliott Maltby & Louis Bailey
Hosted by Justin Garrett Moore
The Penthouse Space, Broadway Housing Communities
583 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10031
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Dear
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We'd like to invite you to join CALL for our January Fellows Forum, which will center around the work City as Living Laboratory is currently developing in West Harlem in partnership with
WeAct for Environmental Justice for the NYCHA Manhattanville Houses.
Hosted by
CALL Trustee and NYC Public Design Commission Executive Director, Justin Garrett Moore, and featuring Peggy Shepard, Elliott Maltby, and Louis Bailey discussing design, e
mergency preparedness, and how urban communities can come together face the ecological challenges confronting our cities.
The feature project in West Harlem is a community hub designed by Elliott Maltby, currently called +SPACE/EPIK
(Emergency Preparedness and Information Kiosk)
, which will serve as a focal point for information and activity surrounding emergency preparedness, environmental awareness and community development through the arts at the Manhattanville Houses. Throughout the summer, CALL will be organizing related artists workshops and other programming at Manhattanville. CALL and WeAct are currently seeking capital funding to realize the structure itself.
Doors will open at 6:00pm and the evening, which includes light refreshments and time for networking, will conclude at 8:30pm.
This event is open to all members of the CALL Fellows Program. If you would like to invite a colleague to become a CALL Fellow, the Fellows registration form can be found
here
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Peggy Shepard
is the Founder and Executive Director of WeAct for Environmental Justice and has a long history of organizing and engaging Northern Manhattan residents in community-based planning and campaigns to address environmental protection and environmental health policy locally and nationally. She has successfully combined grassroots organizing, environmental advocacy, and environmental health community-based participatory research to become a national leader in advancing environmental policy and the perspective of environmental justice in urban communities — to ensure that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment extends to all.
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Justin Garrett Moore
is an urban designer and the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. He has extensive experience in urban design and city planning—from large-scale urban systems, policies, and projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, and arts initiatives. At the Public Design Commission, his work is focused on prioritizing the quality and excellence of the public realm, and fostering accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the City’s public buildings, spaces, and art.
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Elliott Maltby
is a founding partner of
thread collective
and a professor in Pratt’s Panning and Sustainable Environmental Systems programs. thread collective is an multi-disciplinary design studio that explores the seams between building, art, and landscape. Her work as a designer and an academic explores public space, with a particular focus on the intersection of social and ecological conditions. She believes that art and design can improve the sustainability and vitality of the urban experiment, and is interested in how communities co-opt and transform derelict and peripheral landscapes.
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Louis Bailey
is a Community Organizer and Outreach Coordinator with WeAct working to educate Northern Manhattan residents on Environmental Justice issues through outreach, planning, and participatory research. Prior to WE ACT, Bailey was a social Services Case Manager servicing populations from children to seniors. Bailey has a bachelor’s degree in Human Services with minor in counseling. Bailey was born and raised in Harlem.
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The Penthouse Space
Broadway Housing Communities
583 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10031
Nearest public transit is 137th Street - City College stop on the 1 Train.
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