Christopher Marcinkoski and Javier Arpa on (Incomplete) Notes on Speculative Urbanization
On 15-March, Chris Marcinkoski & Javier Arpa shared their work (Incomplete) Notes on Speculative Urbanization in the sixth installment of the 2022 Spring Urbanism Lecture Series, co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program, and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.
Christopher Marcinkoski is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (with tenure) at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design and founding partner at PORT — a Philadelphia and Chicago-based public realm and urban design practice.
Javier Arpa Fernández is an architecture and urbanism teacher, researcher, author and curator who specializes in the dissemination of architectural and urbanism practice.
Javier is the Research and Education Coordinator of The Why Factory. He is the Curator of Public Programs at the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft and Editor-In-Chief at the architecture firm MVRDV.
Christopher and Javier presented an ongoing body of research examining speculative urbanism and the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of speculative projects. They highlight a series of greenfield projects on the African continent, studio work examining the Pearl River Delta and publication as a means to build a conversation around speculative urbanism.
By Joris Komen, Norman B. (1938) and Muriel Leventhal Fellow, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
