August 28, 2014 - Art + Village + City in China
Margaret Crawford (Architecture) on Art+Village+City in the Pearl River Delta, a traveling research studio co-taught by Assistant Prof. Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) in Spring 2015
September 4, 2014 - Experiential Mapping of the Urban Form: Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas and Intranational International Boulevard
Darin Jensen (Geography) on two mapping projects in which students combined their experiences in the field with other data to collaboratively create a holistic picture of place
September 11, 2014 - Representing Our Urban Diversity: Romare Bearden's "Berkeley–The City and Its People" (1973)
Lauren Kroiz (Art History) on Romare Bearden's mural from which the City of Berkeley logo is drawn
September 18, 2014 - Reading the City as a Blind Person
Chris Downey (Architect) and Georgina Kleege (English) on navigating the city as a blind person, with perspectives informed by their professions of writer and designer
September 25, 2014 - Sensing San Leandro: Capturing Cityscapes Through Sensors
Greg Niemeyer (Art Practice and Center for New Media) and Ron Rael (Architecture and Art Practice) on creating and interrogating tools for collecting data on urban metabolisms
October 2, 2014 - Experiments in Online and Print Journals on Cities
Padma Maitland (Architecture and South and Southeast Asian Studies), Lawrence Yang (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Karin Shankar (Performance Studies) and Kirsten Larson (Architecture and City and Regional Planning) on their respective publication projects, Urban Pilgrimage and pARTicipatory Urbanisms
October 9, 2014 - Uneven Modernity and the "Peripheral" City: Between Ethnography, History and Literature in Tbilisi
Harsha Ram (Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature) on his research regarding crossroads, Tiflis modernism and the Russian-Georgian encounter
October 16, 2014 - Creative Class Civil Wars: Displacement and the Arts in the Bay Area
Shannon Steen (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) on the ways our concepts of creativity are shifting to exclude those in the arts
October 23, 2014 - Urban Space, Spectacle, Memory and Music in Nineteenth-Century Vienna
Nicholas Mathew (Music) on the role of music and sound in the emergence of modern civic sensibilities in Napoleonic Vienna
November 6, 2014 - The Art of Change: Exploring Neighborhoods in Transition
Sue Mark (marksearch) and Anisha Gade (Architecture and City and Regional Planning) on creative place-making efforts that can influence, empower, and inform community identity during periods of gentrification
November 13, 2014 - From 1904 Dublin to the Megacity: Public Access in Ulysses and Katarina Schröter's The Visitor
Catherine Flynn (English) on the question of urban knowing and the literary and filmic representations of the city and megacity
November 20, 2014 - The Tokyo Model: Lessons in Slum Non-Clearance from the World's First "Megacity"
Jordan Sand (Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University) on the activities of a Tokyo slumlord at the turn of the 20th century