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Leveraging Performing Arts Programs to Enhance the Urban Condition

Delivered March 5, 2024
Presented by Stephen Brown-Fried, The New School | Jennifer Holmes, Pace University-New York | Ann Rolland, FXCollaborative | Austin Sakong, FXCollaborative
Planning Types: Campus Planning

As the role of arts and culture in our cities evolves, institutions are responding by growing their performing arts programs to enhance connection and build community. This session will explore how the planning, programming, and design of performing arts facilities at two institutions plays a vital role in reinvigorating and energizing the urban condition. Come learn how institutions can use the performing arts to enhance in-person eduction and advance arts and culture within an evolving technological paradigm.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Define space types for supporting performing arts programs in higher education institutions.
  2. Identify the connections between academia and performing arts industries and describe how one's spaces influences the other.
  3. Strategize on the intersections between performing arts pedagogy and new technologies.
  4. Evaluate the tensions and opportunities of providing a performing arts education in dense urban contexts.

Presenters:

Stephen Brown-Fried, Vice Dean of Curriculum and Learning, The New School
Jennifer Holmes, Executive Director of Pace University School of Performing Arts, Pace University-New York
Ann Rolland, Partner, FXCollaborative
Austin Sakong, Design Director, FXCollaborative

Continuing Education Units: AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1432) | AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Delivered 03/05/2024.

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