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Join UB in Hayes Hall 403 for the next installment of the School of Architecture and Planning lecture series, Recovery/Reclamation.

This lecture will feature Daniel D’Oca of Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In his lecture entitled “Participant/Observer,” Dan will discuss how designers do community engagement for all kinds of reasons. For some, it’s a scope requirement that results in empty evening meetings and obligatory “dotmocracy” activities. Rarely is community engagement what it should be, namely, an open-ended, inclusive, and meaningful (and fun!) dialogue that generates something unique and site-specific. In this talk, Dan will distill lessons from some of Interboro's recent and not-so-recent adventures in participatory design, in which they deployed engagement, close observation, and learning tools to create regional, citywide, and neighborhood plans, parks and open spaces, public art installations, and other co-authored urban environments.

Daniel D’Oca is Associate Professor in Practice in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners, a New York-based architecture, urban design, and planning firm. At Harvard, Daniel coordinates the second-semester core urban planning studio and leads interdisciplinary, client-based option studios on a range of topics, including reparations, fair housing, refugee resettlement, indigenous land use and land rights, and other equity-based issues.