Tuesday, November 12, 2024
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MST
Mary Harris Auditorium/Virtual
RMCAD’s VASD Program presents a Designer Talk by Deanna Van Buren!
Deanna is a socially engaged artist working across media platforms including architecture, public art, film, and video games. Her TEDWomen talk has more than one million views.
She was awarded UC Berkeley’s Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize and Professorship for her significant contribution to advancing gender equity in architecture, and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and community.
This event is free and open to the public and offered both in-person on the RMCAD campus and live streamed. Free refreshments are provided for in person guests.
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Learn more at vasd.rmcad.edu/deanna-van-buren
About Deanna Van Buren
Deanna Van Buren is the co-founder and executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. An architecture and real estate nonprofit working to end mass incarceration through place-based solutions, DJDS builds the infrastructure that addresses its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself. She is also a socially engaged artist working across media platforms including public art, film, and video games.
Van Buren has been profiled by The New York Times and has written op-eds on the intersection of design, architecture, mass incarceration, and video games in outlets such as Politico, Architectural Record, and Gamasutra. Her TEDWomen talk on what a world without prisons could look like has been viewed more than one million times.
Her other honors include UC Berkeley’s Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize and Professorship, awarded to a design practitioner who significantly contributed to advancing gender equity in architecture, and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and community. Globally she has received the 2018 Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, for her efforts in transforming justice through design, and the Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Award.
Van Buren is also the co-founder of BIG Oakland (Building Industry Gathering), a co-working space supporting small minority- and women-owned firms in the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate industries.
Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her MArch from Columbia University. She is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
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