March 2011: Excavating Innovation Series Concludes

The Excavating Innovation lecture series, sponsored in part by the Metropolitan Water District's Community Partners Program, concluded in March. Nan Ellin, Chair of City + Metropolitan Planning at University of Utah, presented her Canalscape scheme, and the methods of civic engagement behind it, for integrating ancient and contemporary infrastructures in dynamic public spaces in Phoenix. Dilip da Cunha and Vinayak Bharne shared an evening of discussions on the logics of indigenous infrastructures in Iran, India, and the American Southwest. All lectures from the series, which also included Katherine Rinne, Morna Livingstone, Aziza Chaouni, and Liat Margolis, are video archived.