"The Politics of Public Space"

April 2, 2014

Michael Kimmelman is an American author, critic, New York Times columnist, and pianist and was the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center. In the lecture “The Politics of Public Space,” given on April 2, 2014, he discusses the politics of occupying and designing public spaces in a neoliberal age. Kimmelman describes the formation and functioning of recent, popular movements in relation to public spaces in New York, Cairo, Istanbul, and the West Bank while interrogating the role of architecture in serving justice and enhancing human possibilities.