https://kaiwoodmah.com Kai Wood Mah Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:13 +0000 https://kaiwoodmah.com en https://kaiwoodmah.com/writings Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:11 +0000 Kai Wood Mah https://kaiwoodmah.com/writings WRITINGS&nbsp; <img width="2806" height="3000" width_o="2806" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bb719017d40c246273f8e89a171e6e309626bbb874a025878619aebb7fc6dcd/MahRivers_Figure-5.jpg" data-mid="193614949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bb719017d40c246273f8e89a171e6e309626bbb874a025878619aebb7fc6dcd/MahRivers_Figure-5.jpg" /> A drawing in “Architecture’s Affective Imaginaries,” JAE 78:1 “Infidelities.” Books Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Forthcoming, Dalhousie Architectural Press. (Awarded a Graham Foundation Grant.) In-progress Sites of Learning: Children and the Architectures of Public Education. Democratic Architectures of Early Childhood Development in South Africa (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Housing Independent Refugee Youth in Toronto (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). Articles Peer-reviewed Journal Articles “Architecture’s Affective Imaginaries” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Journal of Architectural Education, 78:1 Spring 2024.&nbsp;Infidelities. “Transposing Afropolitan Mobilities” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Borderlands Journal, 21,1(2022): 90-116. (Special Issue: Intersecting Mobilities, edited by Miriam Ticktin and Rafi Youatt). “Spatializing the Curriculum” (with Emily Ashton and Patrick Lynn Rivers). Journal of Curriculum Studies (2019): 177-194. “Economies of Humanitarian Architectural Practice” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 20, 4 (2018): 510-528. “Refugee Housing without Exception” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Space and Culture 19, 4 (2016): 390-405. “Children, Medicine and the Built Environment of Early Twentieth-Century Toronto”. Children, Youth and Environments 25, 3 (2015): 90-108. “Negotiating Difference in Post-apartheid Housing Design” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 11, 3 (2013): 290-303. “Young Gardeners: On Gardens as Spaces of Experiential Pedagogy.” Public 41 (2010): 98-107. “Classified Landscapes of Education: The Ontario Educational Exhibit of 1876,” Visual Studies 22 (2007): 74-84. &nbsp; Book Chapters Peer-Reviewed “Diffractive Drawing” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Invited by Karen Barad, Viv Bozalek, and Karin Murris, editors, In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism, eds., Vivienne Bozalek and Karin Murris (Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research, Karin Murris, series editor). New York: Routledge, 2022, 144-157. “Philosopher Children Moving through Spacetime” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). In Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris, eds., Literacies, Literature and Learning: Reading Classrooms Differently (Contesting Childhood Series). New York: Routledge, 2018, 187-203. “Le campus urbain comme espace postcolonial” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). In Magali Uhl and Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, eds., Penser creer l’urbain. Montreal: UQAM, 2017, 143-147 “Theorizing Canadian Blackness: Moments, Place and Cultural Production of the Black Diaspora.” In Charmaine Nelson ed., Ebony Roots &amp; Northern Soil. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, 121-140. “Children and School Interiors: The User-Material Culture-Environment Nexus.” In Loren R. Lerner ed., Depicting Canada’s Children, Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009, 305-325. “Reconstructing Blackness: Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth.” In Hanna Wallinger, ed.,&nbsp;Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change, Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2006, 159-174. Trade journals, Opinions, Reviews Review:School Design Together, edited by Pamela Woolner. Children, Youth and Environments 26, 1 (2016): 202-204. “Design for Justice: Policing, Architecture and Urban Design in Chicago Post-Laquan” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers), New City, 17 December (2015): 15. “A Play-Based Studio: Building Huts,” AD Magazine September (2015): 28-29. “Greening Schoolyards,” School Planning &amp; Management August (2015): 28-31. <img width="860" height="1290" width_o="860" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42a7ab0e65eb5a23d26ec2e5fad797e89424342f96e0b6a89be3a2cf431b53f4/SP_book-cover.jpeg" data-mid="193623809" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/860/i/42a7ab0e65eb5a23d26ec2e5fad797e89424342f96e0b6a89be3a2cf431b53f4/SP_book-cover.jpeg" /> a.field’s forthcoming book. https://kaiwoodmah.com/projects Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:12 +0000 Kai Wood Mah https://kaiwoodmah.com/projects Projects <img width="768" height="576" width_o="768" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e469da9ee378f4527a6ddb1b43b5eb91a82ef882b7d558543f35a2c5850862/addis-abba_wb.jpg" data-mid="193619445" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/40e469da9ee378f4527a6ddb1b43b5eb91a82ef882b7d558543f35a2c5850862/addis-abba_wb.jpg" /> The Global South influences a.field projects on both the African continent and North America.&nbsp; The projects take various forms: buildings, speculative projects, consultations and applications such as critical service design, installations, and academic publications. I have worked with numerous agents, governmental and non-profit agencies, university research groups, and Indigenous groups between Canada and South Africa. The solo, collaborative, and co-creative projects received funding from SSHRC, the Connaught Fund, the Graham Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, among other public and private granting agencies. MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS Selected Current Funded Projects Dynamic Referrals for Newcomer Youth in Greater Toronto (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), CA$24,995. July 2020-July 2021. Housing Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Minors in Toronto (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). Community Partnership Research Program, University of Toronto. CA$135,638. January 2019-December 2021. Democratic Early Childhood Development (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Insight Development Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). CA$74,728. September 2016-August 2019. Selected Current Spatial Justice Projects&nbsp;Spatial justice projects where I interpret site-specific building histories and geographies in the present to propose radical design interventions and architectural practices. Surviving a Massive Refugee Situation: A Guide for Designers.Sticky Design: A Choreography. Supported by the SSHRC New Research Initiative Fund. Twenty Movements to Recovery.&nbsp; https://kaiwoodmah.com/talks Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:13 +0000 Kai Wood Mah https://kaiwoodmah.com/talks Talks <img width="1914" height="1054" width_o="1914" height_o="1054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39d3298f17f73bee247d974ce079e35670176726e431312a4f1bba636af91678/talk.png" data-mid="193635766" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39d3298f17f73bee247d974ce079e35670176726e431312a4f1bba636af91678/talk.png" />Invited talk “Development Through Design” at Fairhaven College, WWU.&nbsp; INVITED PRESENTATIONS “Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Calgary, 23 October 2023. “Afield: Current Projects” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). New School/Parsons, New York, 3 December 2020. “The Future of Research and Architectural Practice”. Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, 29 March 2019. “Surviving a Massive Refugee Situation” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). New School/Parsons, New York, 7 February 2019. “Afield Projects” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 8 April 2018. “Afield Projects and Situated Practice in Design and Politics” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Royal College of Art, London, 9 October 2017. “Surviving a Massive Refugee Situation: A Guide for Designers” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Engineered Worlds II, University of Chicago’s Newbauer Collegium, 13 May 2017. “Development through Design” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). World Issues Forum, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1 March 2017. “Development through Design” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Center for Public Interest Design, Portland State University, 27 February 2017. “Surviving a Massive Refugee Situation: A Guide for Designers” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Center for Forced Migration Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, 21 February 2017. Public Dialogue/Workshop on Survival (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Cabinet Magazine Event Space, New York, 16 February 2017. “Development through Design” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). School of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 31 October 2016. “Le campus urbain que l’espace postcolonial” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), 30 September 2016. “Afield Projects” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). International Webinar for Decolonizing Early Childhood Discourses Project, 6 July 2016. “Refugee Housing without Exception” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Institution for Migration and Ethnic Studies and Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, 14 December 2015. “Refugee Housing without Exception” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, 14 October 2015. “Building Schools after Apartheid” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, 14 October 2015. “Refugee Housing without Exception” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). African Centre for Migration Studies, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 25 August 2015. “Building Schools after Apartheid” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). School of Education, University of Cape Town, 22 July 2015. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Design in Two Acts.” Panel Design Histories in a Post-colonial/Decolonial Frame. UAAC - Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Banff, Canada, 20 October 2023. “Unaccompanied and Separated Minors in Refugee Protection Protocols” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). American Association of Geographers, Denver, April 2020. (Accepted but canceled due to Covid.) “Building Hospitable Social Infrastructure for Unaccompanied and Separated Minors in Toronto” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). American Association of Geographers, Denver, April 2020. (Accepted but canceled due to Covid.) “Housing Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Minors in the Greater Toronto Area” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers and David Roberts). American Association of Geographers, Denver, April 2020. (Accepted but canceled due to Covid.) “Philosopher Children Moving through Spacetime” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Care/Connect/Create Teaching and learning Conference, Cape Town, 17 July 2018. “Development after Design” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, Toronto. 31 May 2017. “Surviving the Massive Refugee Situation: A Guide for Designers” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, 16 February 2017. “Economies of Humanitarian Architecture” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Everyday Humanitarianism Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 15 April 2016. “The New Social Architecture in South Africa.” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). European Conference on African Studies, Paris, France, 9 July 2015. “The Politics of School Architectural Standards in South Africa” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress, Durban, 6 August 2014. “Race, Rights and Housing Design for Refugees in South Africa” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). International Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Seoul, South Korea, 23 June 2014. “Negotiating Difference in Post-apartheid Housing” (with Patrick Lynn Rivers). Cities on the Move: Mobilities and Sensibilities, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, 6 July 2013. “William G. Storm, John Parker, and School Designs in the British Colonies of the Nineteenth Century”. North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 30 September 2012. “The Educational Landscapes of the Zonnebloem Estate.” European Conference on African Studies, the Nordic Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 2011. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Integrated Life: Children’s Participation in a History of Gardens.” The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas: Imagining the Child, McGill University, Montreal, 11 March 2010. “Mimico Boys: Architecture, Children and the Law.” The Society for History of Children and Youth, Berkeley, 12 July 2009. “Exploring Visual Essays, Teaching Material Culture.” International Visual Sociology Association, New York, 11 August 2007. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Experiencing the Landscapes of Education.” Society for the Study in Architecture, Prince Edward Island, 9 June 2006. “Reconstructing Blackness: Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youths.” Interrogating the African Diaspora, Miami, 6 August 2005. “Children, Schools, and Handbooks: Popularizing Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada.” Canadian Historical Associations, London, Ontario, 30 May 2005. “Quaker Charity Schools in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.” Austrian Association for American Studies, Salzburg, Austria, 6 November 2004. &nbsp; “Politics of Vision: Frobisher Bay, 1974.” Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 28 June 2004. “Rum Shop Architecture in Barbados.” Black Body: Imagining, writing, (Re) Reading, Culture Center De Paul University, Chicago, 23 April 2004. <img width="1753" height="2480" width_o="1753" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2404169fb0069b45fc284cfcf515dc885bfa5acf2ca8f635babfe459a1cd14d/The-city-A3-poster-Final.jpg" data-mid="193621952" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2404169fb0069b45fc284cfcf515dc885bfa5acf2ca8f635babfe459a1cd14d/The-city-A3-poster-Final.jpg" /> We were honoured to launch the lecture series The City: Situated Practices in the Humanities at the RCA. https://kaiwoodmah.com/Home-Page Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:13 +0000 Kai Wood Mah https://kaiwoodmah.com/Home-Page Kai Wood Mah architect / design historian / professor. for info&nbsp;︎