2020Visions | The New City Conference

2020Visions | The New City Conference::

Navigating the Future, a How-to

222 East Society Founder Kelly Powell is scheduled to participate in the 2020Visions --The New City Conference:: Navigating the Future, a How-to.  A gathering of leading innovators presenting aspirational models and solutions to city challenges. Sessions will feature global and civic world leaders, creatives, and innovators working to solve problems and design cities of the future. Scheduled keynote speakers include Andrew Yang, Sir David Adjaye and Matthew Ryder, former Deputy Mayor of London. 

Kelly will be a panelist on the DESIGNING THE FUTURE session [December 5, 4:30pm EDT] which will focus on the development and training of architects + planners who are tasked with the design of our future environments. 

Speakers: Ravi Rajan, Kelly D. Powell, Jack Travis, James Wines 

Moderator: Dorothy Dunn

Registration Link: https://withpresence.co/in/thenewcity

Interested in being Kelly’s guest to the conference with FREE registration?

Reach out to us at contact@222eastsociety.com

SOF GATHERINGS--TUESDAY TALKS

SOF GATHERINGS —TUESDAY TALKS

As the President of the Society of Fellows [SOF]of the American Academy in Rome, Kelly leads the overall planning and oversight of the SOF’s Communications, Program/Development, and Membership engagement efforts. Working with the Programs + Events Committee, the Tuesday Talks series was created to highlight the work of prominent leaders and Rome Prize Fellows in the arts + humanities. The first half of the series focused on African-American writers, poets, and music composers while the second series explores the topic of Democracy from the varied positions of designers, art historians, and conservationists.  

Tuesday evenings September—December 2020 | 6pm EDT

Register HERE on Eventbrite

THE FUTURE OF WORKPLACE DESIGN

Very excited to participate on this upcoming panel and share thoughts on the future of workplace! After coordinating a roundtable on the impact of COVID on the design and construction industries earlier this spring, having the opportunity to share my insights with the University of Michigan’s vast community is fantastic! GO BLUE!!

Register: http://myumi.ch/QAYbG

SOF Call to Action Statement

Sharing the personal note and Call to Action Statement I addressed to the American Academy in Rome Community in response to this summer’s growing activism and support of BLACK LIVES MATTER. In my view, we should all remember that social justice and the eradication of systemic racism is not contained within a singular moment but an ongoing movement towards EQUALITY...

‘…An open letter from Kelly D. Powell, a 2002 Fellow in Architecture and President of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome.

Looking back at my fellowship at the Academy from 2001 to 2002, I always remember how my fluency in French improved long before I had a handle on speaking Italian.

My first connections in the Eternal City were with the Senegalese, who primarily lived around the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele roughly twenty years ago. Because many didn’t speak English, it was easier for me to communicate in French and answer their questions about my research in Rome and, in turn, pose my questions to them about their life in Italy. I was actively seeking out groups within Rome that would be considered “other” or existed on the margins of what was considered Italian society, to learn how their existence impacted the built environment. While this was the basis of my work in Rome, venturing to Piazza Vittorio eventually became my personal escape (in addition to encounters with Italians from Venice to Erice, Sicily) and a means of dealing with the isolation I often felt at the Academy, being one of two African American Fellows that year….’

Read the full statement HERE…

DESIGN IN A POST-COVID ENVIORNMENT

222 EAST SOCIETY moderated a lively online roundtable the evening of April 22, 2020 titled “Design in a post-COVID Environment”. Participants included professionals from the design + construction, engineering and real estate industries. Voices also included leaders representing end-user groups from both workplace and healthcare. During the conversation, panelists shared their perspectives on “real-time” planning decisions they are confronting within their corporations + institutions as colleagues return to work in addition to the challenges experienced while managing projects impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Thank you to all of our guests!

Tonja Adair [Splice Design] Gregg Cohen - Office Leasing Specialist Cohen [Cresa Partners]

 John Fitzgerald [Linesight] Brian Kaplan [WRNS Studio] Craig Levine [AMERICON|HITT Construction] Francis Murphy [VIACOM |CBS]  Kachi Akoma [Harlem Hospital]

 Paul Soames, CEng, P.E. [RyanSoames Engineering] G. Steven South[Spector Group]