Organized and hosted by Davy Knittle, "City Planning Poetics" holds events once a semester at Kelly Writers House "that invite one or more poets and one or more planners, designers, planning historians or others working in the field of city planning to discuss a particular topic central to their work, to ask each other questions, and to read from their current projects."
On March 21st of this year, Knittle convened the seventh event in the series, "Carceral Justice," with guests Emily Abendroth and Nina Johnson. Abendroth is a poet, teacher, and anti-prison activist, whose "creative work investigates state regimes of surveillance, force, and power, as well as individual and collective resistance strategies." Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Coordinator of the Program in Black Studies at Swarthmore College. Her scholarly work addresses "the areas of inequality, politics, race, space, class, culture, stratification and mobility."
You can stream video and download audio of their discussion here here. Previous events in the series, which started in the winter of 2016, include "What Is a Map? What Does a Map Do?" (with Jena Osman and Amy Hillier), "What Are the Tools That Shape the Built Environment? Where Did They Come From? How Have They Been Used?" (with Francesca Ammon and Jason Mitchell), "Queer Placemaking" (with Max J. Andruck and Rachel Levitsky), "Urban Memory" (with Simone White and Randall Mason), "Queer City" (with Jen Jack Gieseking and Erica Kaufman), and "Urban Revitalization" (with Brian Goldstein and Douglas Kearney). You can watch or listen to those events here.
