This symposium gathers artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates discussing the uses and abuses of the Bay Area’s urban landscape.

Speakers include Allison Arieff (SPUR), Teresa Caldeira (City & Regional Planning), Deborah Cullinan (Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture and Urban Design), Raquel Gutierrez (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Shannon Jackson (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies), Marina McDougall (Director, Center for Art and Inquiry, The Exploratorium), Alex Michel (Director, 5M Project, Forest City), Judy Nemzoff (San Francisco Arts Commission), Rebecca Novik (California Shakespeare Theater), Elvin Padilla (Tenderloin Economic Redevelopment Project), Ava Roy (Artistic Director, We Players), Joel Slayton (ZERO1), and Susan Schwartzenberg (Artist).

For more information, registration, and a detailed event schedule, visit the symposium website.

Reimagining the Urban is part of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation and cosponsored by the College of Environmental Design, the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Arts Research Center and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.