BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10789@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230410T190000 DTSTAMP:20251114T081242Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/2023-annual-swanson-lecture-mel- dodd-between-the-built-and-the-lived-galleries-closed/ SUMMARY:2023 Annual Swanson Lecture: Mel Dodd - Between the Built and the L ived (Galleries Closed) DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Academy of Art on Monday\, April 10 for the 2023 Annual Swanson Lecture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Mel Do dd. The lecture will be held in deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum and is free and open to the public. Please note\, Cranbrook Art Museum's galleries will be closed.\n\nDrawing on practice\, research\, and teaching \, and expanding on her recent publication ‘Spatial Practices: Modes of Actions and Engagement with the City’ (Routledge 2019)\, Mel will expl ore the relationship between social and spatial infrastructures – tracin g projects and approaches that range from performance to policy-making\, f rom architecture to urban design.\n\nMel Dodd leads Architecture at Monash University\, Melbourne\, and has been practicing and teaching architectur e for over 30 years including at Cambridge University\, &\; Royal Colle ge of Art. She was Programme Director at RMIT University\, Melbourne 2007- 2012 and then at Central Saint Martins until 2020\, where she established the Spatial Practices Programme. Her practice is concerned with the relati onship between social and spatial infrastructures\, delivered through coll aborative and socially-engaged practice\; innovations in live projects and pedagogy\, and via advocacy for expanded forms of architectural education and knowledge exchange. She is the author of ‘Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City’ (Routledge 2019)\, and joint aut hor of ‘This is What We Do: A Muf Manual’ (Ellipsis 2002). Professor D odd received her Master of Architecture from the University of Cambridge a nd her Ph.D. from RMIT University.\n\nThe annual Swanson lecture is spons ored by the J. Robert F. Swanson Fund.\n\nThe J. Robert F. Swanson Lecture Fund at Cranbrook Academy of Art was established in 1983 by the family of J. Robert F. Swanson\, a noted architect who was also the son-in-law of E liel Saarinen. Each year\, the Swanson Lecture brings to the Cranbrook c ampus architects\, designers\, artists\, or scholars who have received critical acclaim for their work and enjoy a sustained record of excelle nce and achievement in their respective fields.  J. Robert F. Swanson an d his wife and lifelong design partner\, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson\, found ed their firm Swanson Associates in 1947 and worked on many exteriors and interiors\, including residences\, schools\, universities\, churches\, air ports\, banks\, government\, industrial and commercial projects. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2023/03/MelDodd-Portrait-copy.png CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl oomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloom field Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cranbr ook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR