Conversations on the Border

Artist David Taylor will be in conversation with Beth Weinstein and Kenny Wong.

Beth Weinstein is an architect and associate professor at the University of Arizona and Co-founder of ReSI (Remembering Spaces of Internment). Her research investigates (dis)appearances and (in)visibilities related to climate catastrophe, states of exception, labor, and collaboration. She continues to ask what forms of architecture, and associated invisibilites, are produced through executive order and under states of exception. Working with archival documents, situated practices and architectural modes of representation, she constructs and choreographs performance-installations that render “sensible” razed sites and spaces of internment in the Southwest US and France.

Kenny Wong is a lecturer in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning. He carries experience in the diverse facets of housing design and policy, with a concentration on affordable housing and community development. Driven by commitments to spatial and social justice, he has practiced as a housing advocate,

multifamily designer, nonprofit developer, financial consultant, policy analyst and academic researcher between Southern California and the Oakland-East Bay Area. He was most recently the assistant director of design research at cityLAB, where his research explored connecting schools with housing development in the School Lands for Housing project and envisioned future scenarios of housing for the California 100. Creative design research and collaborative multidisciplinary approaches are crucial to his investigative and problem-solving methods as a teaching collaborator and former student in the Urban Humanities Initiative.