Hot on the case, the TED Blog already has a solid recap of Teddy Cruz‘s talk just a few hours ago, here at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Drawing on his classic talk about his life’s work, Cruz covers the border cities of San Diego and Tijuana.
“The slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawl of San Diego,” says Cruz. Cities of the wealthy grow selfishly, says Cruz. They suck up oil, consume tons of energy and divide space into single uses, often of the personal variety. But in communities of scarcity, like those in Tijuana, Cruz sees inspiration for how we can peel back this selfish urbanization. “I don’t want to romanticize poverty,” says Cruz. “But I want to suggest that this informal development…is a set of social and economic procedures that we can translate.” To put it bluntly: There are other ways of constructing cities.
BIO:
Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently a Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.
Teddy Cruz will be speaking at ELAC in November as our new Public Lecture Series. Watch for the announcement soon.
Link
With Teddy Cruz on "Power" and "Powerlessness"
Estudio Teddy Cruz
posted by: O.A
“The slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawl of San Diego,” says Cruz. Cities of the wealthy grow selfishly, says Cruz. They suck up oil, consume tons of energy and divide space into single uses, often of the personal variety. But in communities of scarcity, like those in Tijuana, Cruz sees inspiration for how we can peel back this selfish urbanization. “I don’t want to romanticize poverty,” says Cruz. “But I want to suggest that this informal development…is a set of social and economic procedures that we can translate.” To put it bluntly: There are other ways of constructing cities.
BIO:
Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently a Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.
Teddy Cruz will be speaking at ELAC in November as our new Public Lecture Series. Watch for the announcement soon.
Link
With Teddy Cruz on "Power" and "Powerlessness"
Estudio Teddy Cruz
posted by: O.A
RSS Feed