Re: Follow up with the Urban Planning Rio Studio

[vanessa smith]

team samba....

i meant to forward this last week, maybe we can discuss this tomorrow in studio.  As some of you know i have been in contact with Malwina regarding studio x funding and what we could produce for gsapp/studio x.  I feel we are at a good spot to discuss our work up to the present and what we could produce in the future for mr wigley and his clan. 


till 10! yay.

v

2011/4/19 Malwina Lys-Dobradin <mel...@columbia.edu>

Dear Vanessa,

Sorry for the slow reply.  I’d be happy to meet about your proposal next week anytime the 26^th onwards.  Please let me know when might be good for you.

Best,

Malwina

 

 

Malwina E. Łyś-Dobradin (Mal-vee-na)

Director, Global Network Programming

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Columbia University

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From: vanessa smith [mailto:vanessa...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:31 PM
To: mel...@columbia.edu
Cc: Clara Irazabal
Subject: Follow up with the Urban Planning Rio Studio

 

Dear Malwina,

Hope this email reaches you well.  Per our conversation on Wednesday, I am following up with you to schedule a meeting with our some of the students from our Rio-based transnational planning studio, led by Professor Irazabal.  We would like to discuss the continuation of our studio through the summer.  A group of students in the studio are pursuing summer internships in Rio and in New York to further the important research on regional collaborative governance and housing policy in the Brazilian context.  We had the privilege of presenting at the opening of the Studio X in Rio, and feel there is great potential for our project to have a more lasting contribution to Studio X's work of disseminating and sharing progressive transnational planning ideas.  As our project is located on the frontier of the planning discipline, it has huge potential to demonstrate the necessity of these platforms for collaboration across traditional boundaries, and to highlight the positive and profound outcomes such collaboration can produce. We believe that outcomes of our semester long studio, as well as our findings from our summer research could be packaged in the form of a traveling exhibit designed for information dissemination. The exhibit will be intended to visually communicate the importance of regional planning in Latin America as well as the scalable opportunities offered by transnational collaboration and planning.

We have invested much time and energy to this project thus far and strongly wish to continue the work over the summer.  Our team will be split between New York and Rio and we will truly be engaged in transnational, cross-cultural sharing.  In the attachments you will find the power point presentation for our midterm to give you a better idea of our approach and vision, as well as our personal statement for partial funding from Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) Internship Grant for the this summer.

 

Would it be possible to meet with you on Monday or Tuesday to hear your thoughts on how we could add value to the work of Studio X?

 

Cordially yours,

 

Vanessa

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MS Urban Planning Candidate, 2012
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

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MS Urban Planning Candidate, 2012
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027