Скачать или смотреть Reimagining Urban Planning: Embodiment (June 3, 2024)

Reimagining Planning is a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and implementing racist policies, and destruction of the built environment. This series openly critiques this current iteration of urban planning in the hopes of proposing new theories, strategies, and concepts that help us arrive at an iteration of the field where we all belong. We are interested in helping foster meaningful conversations among urban planners hungry for more and to engage with new audiences that have always been curious about urban planning but may not know what exactly do urban planners do.

Somatics, defined as a movement study that focuses on the experience of being in one’s “body,” has much to offer people as a form of building body intelligence, but what can it offer to Urban Planning? In what ways can embodiment help us better understand our internal experiences as bodies but in turn also build our relationship with the built environment?

This installment of the webinar series brought together:

Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan, MUPP (She/Her) is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Urban Planner. She received her Bachelor of Science in Theater with a Dance focus and minor in Community Planning from Kansas State University, and her Masters in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a concentration in spatial planning. Currently, She is an independent dance artist, choreographer, and breathwork facilitator, and works for the City and County of Denver’s Community Active Living Coalition in the OCBE Division as the Community Streets Program Administrator. Her professional mission is to continue to serve as a change agent and use an intersectional approach to place-making and placekeeping that strengthens communities and bridges cultural gaps.

Marina Magalhães is a border-crosser, bridge-builder, and dance-maker from Brazil currently living on unceded Ohlone land (Santa Cruz, CA). Known for her uniquely moving performances and radically inclusive workshops, Magalhães invites movers of all kinds to find the connection between movement-making in the body and movement-building in our communities. As a community-rooted teacher and cultural organizer, she is known for spearheading pedagogic initiatives that uplift racial and healing justice. In 2023, she joined the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play & Design as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Dance. She identifies as an academic-interventionist and is committed to centering Afro-Latin and non-Western dance forms within the university dance curriculum.

Jose Richard Aviles (Moderator) is a Transportation Analyst for the Othering and Belonging Institute. As part of the Community Power and Policy Partnerships team, they support government agencies and partners with community organizations by providing trainings, technical assistance, and evaluation support centering lived experience, vision, and self-determination of the communities most impacted by transit inequities. Aviles draws inspiration from their involvement with the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles and participation in other social justice movements like marriage equality.