Unwalling Citizenship
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Websites: Cruz+Forman Studio, MoMA Article
Date: Monday May 19
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Digital Arts Research Center 108
Cruz and Forman will discuss their work on “citizenship culture” at the U.S.-Mexico border and the network of civic spaces they have co-developed with border communities to cultivate regional and global solidarities.
Teddy Cruz (MDes Harvard University) is a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana/San Diego border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space.
Fonna Forman (PhD University of Chicago) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice. Her work focuses on climate justice, borders and migration, and participatory urbanization. She serves as Co-Chair of the University of California’s Global Climate Leadership Council.
Together they lead the UCSD Community Stations, a research-based urban and architectural design practice at UC San Diego, investigating borders and migration, informal urbanization, emergency housing, bioregional climate resilience, civic infrastructure and public culture. They lead a variety of urban and environmental research agendas in the San Diego-Tijuana border region and beyond.
Sponsored by: Art Department Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program, UC Climate Action Arts Network