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Monday, February 9th

10 am- 5 pm [LA]
exhibit: 'USC Second Year'
USC Architecture (Watt Hall; USC; downtown LA)
info: 213-740-2097
detail: Student work from the second-year design studio. Through February 21st.

730 pm [LA]
lecture: 'Radical Urban Ecology'
Art Center College of Design (1700 Lida Street; Pasadena)
info: 626-396-2446
detail: The departments of Environmental Design and Liberal Arts & Sciences present the Radical Urban Ecology of English Artist Nils Norman. Nils Norman’s work is informed by local urban politics and ideas on alternative economic and ecological systems that work within the city, merging urban, utopian alternatives with a humorous critique of the history and role of public art. His work often takes the form of fictive proposals that critically highlight what city design and public sculpture mean in terms of their participation in the process of gentrification of city space and its exclusionary nature. The proposals reveal the processes used by corporate and private interests to control and redefine public space for private ends. Mr. Norman’s recent projects include doing photography and research of Adventure Playgrounds in Europe and the United States to create the book “An Architecture of Play: A Survey of London’s Adventure Playgrounds.” All are invited to his presentation.