David Dillon Symposium

Second Annual David Dillon Symposium, April 18-19, 2013

Making Connections: The Networked City

In his classic 1937 essay “What Is a City?” Lewis Mumford proposed a deceptively simple definition: “the city is above all else a theater of social action.” Cities make connections between people, places, and ideas, and it is those connections that make a vital, thriving place. But how do we make those connections? How does design, from buildings to roads to the wires of our telecommunications network, help create that “theater of social action”? Is the vast landscape of the 21st century city, with its dependence on digital technology, fundamentally different than the cities of the past? Join the discussion of these questions and more as we explore the nature of today’s networked city.

Events are sponsored by the Dallas Architecture Forum, Dallas Morning News, and Nasher Sculpture Center.

Registration required; all proceeds benefit the programs of the Dillon Center.

To register, click here.

Keynote address

7 p.m., Thursday, April 18, reception before at 6:15

Robert Bruegmann, author of Sprawl, A Compact History and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Magnolia Theater, 3699 McKinney Avenue, Dallas

Symposium

11:15 a.m. – 4:45 p.m., Friday April 19, reception to follow at 5 p.m.

Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora Street, Dallas

Speakers include (for full bios click here)

Robert Bruegmann

Kathryn Holliday, assistant professor and director, David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington

Mark Lamster, architecture and design critic, Design Observer: Observatory

Diana Lind, executive editor of Next City

Paula Lupkin, assistant professor, Department of Art History, University of North Texas

Jonathan Massey, associate professor at the School of Architecture, Syracuse University

For further information about the program, please contact Professor Kathryn Holliday, Director of the Dillon Center at kholliday@uta.edu