Placemaking 12

Placemaking12: Bonita Bennett

We first met Bonita in 2015 when Molly and Mindy were visiting South Africa on a trip for a Maggie INK project.  Bonita was then the Director of the District 6 Museum in Capetown.  District Six was an important Capetown Neighborhood, home to people of numerous ethnicities. It was destroyed by the Apartheid government. The Museum, in …

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Placemaking12: UofO Urbanism Team

What does an urbanist need to know while sheltering in place? Here’s what UofO’s urbanism team has to suggest. The psychological impact of physical space to people and their social relations Basics about plants and how to take care of them How to stretch! Stretching as a quality of attention towards space in the body …

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Placemaking12: Bozena Kluba

Urbanist, interested in the role of water in the city and the redevelopment of industrial wastelands. Based in Paris region. Bozena Kluba was a student at the National Conservatory of Arts and Trades in Paris, studying with Michel Cantal-Dupart.  We invited Cantal’s students to do a one-week intensive at Columbia University Mailman School of Public …

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Placemaking12: Veronique Heon-Klin

Veronique Heon-Klin studied public health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She worked with the Community Research Group in a study of violence in Washington Heights. When she returned to Germany she led a study of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. She has joined us on numerous city visits in …

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Placemaking12: Carol Hsiung

Carol Hsiung loves to draw. She studied architecture at Cornell University and has, for the past 30 years, applied her pen to her craft as an architect. Carol has garnered much acclaim for her drawings and has been widely published. She credits sketching with enabling her to connect with the world around her and in …

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Placemaking12: Marisela Gomez

Marisela Gomez is a scholar activist from Baltimore MD. She received her PHD, MD, and MPH from Johns Hopkins University and has spent more than 20 years engaged in social determinants of health participatory research. Dr. Gomez is a Buddhist in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition. You can listen to a recorded meditation and talk …

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Placemaking12: Nupur Chaudhury

Nupur Chaudhury is a bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health. Throughout her career, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy through her work with …

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Placemaking12: Dominic Moulden

Dominic T. Moulden is UofO’s Ernest Thompson Fellow for Program & Coalition. Dominic is a longtime resource organizer at Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC), a collectively-led organization that builds people power and economic and racial equity in Washington, DC. He is a frequent lecturer at various universities and conferences regarding equitable revitalization, cooperative economics, affordable …

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Placemaking12: Havanna Fisher

Havanna Fisher is an emerging transdisciplinary artist and designer from Harlem who works across the fields of design, performing arts and film. She has a keen interest in using her skills and gifts to combine the art world with education to bring about political awareness and thus probable change within the American landscape of ideological …

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