A Day at the Shore: Ecologists and Environmental Advocates

About The Event

MoCP is delighted to host Great Lakes Region ecologists, environmental advocates, and the general public as part of Shore|Lines for a day of public events. Co-moderated by Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator, and Libia Bianibi, Deputy Director at Building Equity and Alignment for Environmental Justice 

11:00 am Film Screening: “Descendant” (2022)  

Special post-show conversation with Kamau Sadiki, Board Member of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers and the Diving with a Purpose international organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of submerged heritage resources. 

1:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Presentation by Akima Brackeen 

Akima Brackeen  

Akima Brackeen is a Chicago-based architectural designer researcher, and educator dedicated to promoting justice within the built environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and directs an experimental platform for design research and fieldwork focused on water, sound, and architectural activations. Brackeen’s research challenges the racial perceptions, values, and culture of waterscapes by translating and spatializing narratives while leveraging design to speculate futures.

3:00 pm Audio Walk: 

Join artist JeeYeun Lee and environmentalist Billie Kerner (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) in an outdoor audio walk that contemplates the lakefront as a liminal space between land and water, simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence.

*Please register for this event by clicking the button below. You will be able to register for single sessions or the full day.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Asha Iman Veal at aveal@colum.edu