Freshturf + Book Launch with Keynote Speaker and Contributor Perry Kulper 

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Passcode: 807371

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Freshturf+: A Construct Atlas of the Great Lakes Basin is based on a proposal by Studio Great Lakes that challenges conceptions of existing regional forms in order to evolve and expand urban and cultural identities. It is the outcome of a two-week relational mapping workshop for Ryerson University's Master of Architectural Science design research studio Urbanism in the Anthropocene. Join us next Thursday for the virtual book launch with the following panelists:

Ryerson Students, Master of Architecture program, Ryerson University, Class 2020.

Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. His primary interests include the roles and generative potential of architectural drawing; the outrageously different spatial opportunities offered by using diverse design methods in design practices; and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination. In 2013 he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows’ with friend and collaborator Nat Chard. Fantastic beasts have also been on his mind.

Elizabeth George is an architect and educator who studies design methodologies. Living and working in Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto, she established Studio Great Lakes, an architecture and design research practice with a critical agenda for the Great Lakes Basin. George is an associate architect at architectsAlliance in Toronto, an instructor at Lawrence Technological University in Metro Detroit, and earned an M.Arch and M.S. in Architecture with a focus in Design Research from the University of Michigan. George is licensed in the United States and Canada and is a LEED accredited professional.

Scott Sørli’s trans-disciplinary practice unearths moments when form and matter engage the economic and political forces that produce the city. Sørli has an extensive exhibition, publication, curatorial, and architectural practice, and chaired the city of Toronto’s peace subcommittee of the Nathan Phillips Square Community Advisory Committee. With professional degrees in architecture (Toronto) and engineering (Waterloo) as well as a post-professional degree in design research (Michigan), Sørli has taught architecture at several institutions, most recently in Jakarta, Cambridge, and Toronto.