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SUMMARY:Gallery Take-Over: Earth Material Resource Center
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeJanuary 26-April 17\, 2026Gallery hours: Mon-Fri (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) \n\n\n\n\n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism (AUP 146) \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2024-2026 Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellow\, Iris Xiaoxue Ma\, will be taking over and transforming part of the Jim Shields Gallery into a ceramic studio/workshop space during the Spring 2026 semester. Iris will use the gallery as a production space for her Fellowship show and a material resource center for all School of Architecture & Urban Planning students. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in the process\, techniques\, tools\, and applications of ceramic material\, or simply looking for project inspirations\, visit her in her ceramics space. Monthly walk-in and workshop hours will be posted on the gallery door.
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SUMMARY:Preparing Communities for Data Center Development
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeWednesday\, March 4 (12-1:15 p.m.) \n\n\n\n\n\nLocationVirtual \n\n\n\n\n\nAn Innovative Cities Lecture\n\n\n\nAs data center development expands across Wisconsin and the Midwest\, communities are increasingly being approached by developers seeking land\, electricity\, and water. While these projects can bring significant investment\, they also raise complex questions related to zoning\, infrastructure capacity\, public finance\, and environmental impacts. \n\n\n\nThis session equips planners and local officials with the foundational knowledge needed before a data center proposal arrives—and the critical questions to ask when it does. Speakers will address the wide range of data center types\, Wisconsin’s 2023 data center tax exemption\, local zoning and policy tools\, and lessons from communities across the region. Case examples from Wisconsin\, the Midwest\, and the country will highlight strategies for managing\, attracting\, or limiting data center development in alignment with community goals. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\nAllison Carlson is the Executive Director for the Wisconsin Local Government Climate Coalition. She is an energy and sustainability professional\, working over 15 years across a variety of roles in market research and evaluation\, government regulation and oversight\, program planning\, and administration. She has a keen eye toward the concerns of commissions\, utilities\, and local governments\, allowing for more informed and actionable solutions. Professional objectives are to foster a just and clean energy economy through supporting equitable policy and effective organizational systems and processes. Allison holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Finance\, Economics\, and International Business from UW-La Crosse. \n\n\n\nBridget Williams is a policy coordinator at the Great Plains Institute and facilitates the MISO Cities and Communities Coalition\, a group of local governments advocating for an electric grid that supports their goals to lower emissions\, strengthen resilience\, promote equity\, and foster economic opportunity. \n\n\n\nIn this role\, Bridget conducts research\, tracks regional and federal energy issues\, and develops educational materials to assist local governments with engaging grid decision-makers and developing high-impact local energy policies and programs. Bridget recently organized a webinar series to discuss the water and energy impacts of data centers and levers local governments can use to align data centers with local goals. Bridget has a BS in community and regional planning from Iowa State University and lives in Milwaukee\, WI.  \n\n\n\nKevin Lahner is the City Manager for Janesville\, WI\, managing strategic planning and employee engagement efforts.  Recent projects include coordinating the planning for a data center and updated City zoning code. Previously he was the City Administrator for the Waukesha\, WI\, where he managed the daily operations and administered the City’s Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan\, and Operating Budget. Kevin holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Texas and a BS in Communications-Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. \n\n\n\nLivestream Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister + Join Lecture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAICP-CM credits will be awarded. If you have questions\, please contact Carolyn Esswein: cesswein@uwm.edu
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SUMMARY:Mixing Realities\, A Consciousness of Mud
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeMarch 5\, 2026 (12:30-1:30 p.m.) \n\n \n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism (AUP 146) \n\n\n \nWestern literature\, architecture and game forms tend to focus on the story of a person against the backdrop of the world—the Rückenfigur\, the third-person perspective\, first-person shooter\, the hero\, the ego\, the genius\, the master\, the architect\, the individual. In this figure-ground relation\, the nonhuman world is also banished to the background. As a reparative and realist (but non-redemptive) form\, Multiplayer Mixed Reality\, ‘Mixed Presence’ Game Simulations and Interactions create nonnormative timeframes and interconnected systems without a singular protagonist and moral. \n \nThe work of Leah Wulfman develops nonnormative uses and playful misuses of technology through embodied physicality. Much of this work is centered around play and performativity\, and pairs game engine interactions and digital twins with their most physical\, material and ludic counterparts–dirt\, weeds\, trash\, plastic and foam. These mixed reality ecologies and interactions find their foundations in disability\, trans and queer embodied practice and politics\, and operate as lenses to reconfigure and recontextualize space and time orientations in architectural discourse beyond the normative. \n \nAbout Leah Wulfman\n \nLeah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect\, educator\, game designer\, digital puppeteer\, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect\, Wulfman assembles hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature\, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture. In addition to mixed reality installations that play with and emphasize the physical\, material basis of everything digital\, their research focuses on gamified environments\, interactions and materials. \n \nWulfman holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Arts in Fiction and Entertainment from SCI-Arc. They have taught at numerous institutions in the United States\, including ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices Graduate Program\, IDEAS Program at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design\, SCI-Arc\, The School of Architecture at Taliesin\, and most recently University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, where they have developed youth programming and mixed reality coursework. Their research and design work has been supported by numerous residencies and publications\, and has been shown as part of various exhibitions and festivals\, including the Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale\, After School\, The FiDi Arsenale\, Space Saloon Design and Build Festival\, Open Engagement\, VIA Festival for Electronic Art and Music\, A Queer Query\, /imagine: A Journey into the New Virtual\, and The Wrong Biennale for New Digital Art. They currently teach at the University of Utah as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD). Wulfman is a recipient of the 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers\, and the 2025 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.
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SUMMARY:Counter-Stories of Architectural Education and Racial Capitalism—A Conversation Between Maura Lucking and Jodi Melamed
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeMarch 19\, 2026 (12:30-1:30 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationJim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism \n\n\n\nMaura Lucking is a historian of architectural modernism and the nineteenth century U.S. Her research studies design as the intersection of connected histories of race\, craft\, land\, and labor. \nHer forthcoming book\, Settler Campus: Design\, Free Labor\, and Land Reform in American Education\, provides an architectural history of the Land Grant college movement. In it\, she studies the relationship between government policy\, land use\, campus planning\, and design pedagogy at schools founded after the U.S. Civil War\, considering the role of design practices in Black and Native dispossession as well as the construction of new racial identities and settler colonial hierarchies. \nAnother interest is in sociotechnical and media histories of architectural representation\, including mechanical drawing & blueprinting\, architectural photography\, and mortgage and loan documents. New research considers state\, missionary\, and philanthropic approaches to housing and homebuilding projects in Indian country. \nThis scholarly work has been supported by the Winterthur Museum\, Huntington Library\, Graham Foundation\, Society for Architectural Historians\, and the Getty Research Institute and has appeared in Architectural Theory Review\, Faktur\, Grey Room\, the Getty Research Journal\, the Journal of Architectural Education\, and Thresholds. She was the recipient of the 2024 Brownlee Dissertation Award\, given by the Society of Architectural Historians to celebrate the most outstanding dissertation for that year in architectural history. \nJodi Melamed is professor of English and Race\, Ethnic\, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University. For spring semester 2024 she served as the Norman Freehling Professor at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. \nShe is the author of Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism (Minnesota UP\, 2011)\, co-editor of Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity\, Race\, Capitalism (with Jodi A. Byrd\, Alyosha Goldstein\, and Chandan Reddy)\, a special issue of the journal Social Text. Her influential essay\, “Racial Capitalism\,” is among the most cited articles in the journal Critical Ethnic Studies. She has published widely on relational approaches to critical race and ethnic studies and gendered racial capitalism in widely cited essays including “Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities” (with Jodi A. Byrd\, Alyosha Goldstein\, and Chandan Reddy)\, “The Spirit of Neoliberalism: From Racial liberalism to neoliberal multiculturalism\,” “Using Liberal Rights to Enforce Racial Capitalism” (with Chandan Reddy) and “ Don’t Arrest Me\, Arrest the Police: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalism” (with Lisa Cacho). \nHer current book project\, Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: From its Command Powers to its Undoing (with Chandan Reddy) is under contract with Verso Books. For today’s liberatory movements\, it seeks to provide an understanding of how liberalism writ large functions as racial capitalist world-making praxis. Melamed and Reddy examine liberalism writ large not as a philosophy of freedom or just order\, but as theory and practice of command. They examine liberalism’s key praxis-concepts – nation-state\, (capitalist) law\, property\, security\, citizenship and more – as nodal points for command apparatuses that are key to colonial racial capitalist operability. The intention of their operational account is not to make racial capitalism seem implacable\, but to show that its doings are always threatened by protocols for making\, continuing\, and defending specific\, grounded living (Black\, Indigenous\, migrant and more). By refusing killability and authorizing mutual survival\, such “other doings” evade and break state-capital violence circuits. Though pushed below or outside of ‘politics’ \, as conventionally understood\, such doings together are powerful\, transformative forces.
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SUMMARY:Bridging the Housing Gap: Stories from Two Midwest Communities
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeWednesday\, April 1 (12-1 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationVirtual \n\n\nAn Innovative Cities Lecture\nCommunities of every size are facing mounting housing shortages—from overall supply constraints to the lack of affordable options. This session explores practical strategies for expanding housing availability through the experiences of a mid-sized Wisconsin city (La Crosse) and a small Minnesota community (Wabasha). Learn how each community gathers and uses data to demonstrate need\, applies a range of financing tools to make projects feasible\, and implements planning approaches designed to attract investors\, encourage development\, and deliver more housing where it’s needed most. \nBiographies\nCaroline Gregerson has been City Administrator for the City of Wabasha for 5 years. In her role\, she manages 37 full-time and part-time employees\, staffs the Wabasha Port Authority\, oversees all major projects for the City including housing\, transportation\, child care. Prior to that role\, she worked for the City of La Crosse as their Community Development Administrator for 8 years. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Syracuse University Maxwell School.   \nMara Keyes is the Community Development Manager for the City of La Crosse\, Wisconsin. She manages federal dollars that support essential services for low-income residents – through nonprofit organizations and by building and preserving affordable housing. Her work bridges the gap between policy\, programming and people to make meaningful impact in the community. Prior to her role in La Crosse Mara provided grants and loans to entrepreneurs as part of the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation.  She serves on the YWCA board\, is a founding board member of the La Crosse Film Academy and the Rivoli Arts District\, and represents the City of La Crosse on the La Crosse Promise Board and the School District’s Early Childhood Steering Committee. \nLivestream Details\n\n\n\nRegister + Join Lecture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAICP-CM credits will be awarded. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Carolyn Esswein: cesswein@uwm.edu
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SUMMARY:ULTRAMODERNE
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeApril 2\, 2026 (12:30-1:30 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism (AUP 146) \n\n\nYasmin Vobis is a registered architect and co-founding Principal of ULTRAMODERNE. She studied architecture at the University of California\, Berkeley and Princeton University. She was awarded the Founders—Arnold W. Brunner—Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize in Architecture in 2016 and she is currently Assistant Professor in Architecture at UC Berkeley. ULTRAMODERNE is an award-winning architecture and design firm located in Berkeley\, CA. Led by co-principals Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis\, the office creates buildings and public spaces that are at once modern\, playful\, and generous. The principals believe that design is not a luxury\, but rather fundamental to the construction of all aspects of the built environment.
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SUMMARY:Center for Equity Practice & Planning Justice Open House and Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeWednesday\, April 8\, 2026 (11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Marcus Commons \n\n\n\nIn recognition of National Fair Housing Month — commemorating the landmark Fair Housing Act of April 11\, 1968 — we invite you to be part of the solution. The Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice (CEPPJ) within 51����’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning\, in partnership with the Milwaukee Community Land Trust\, is hosting a transformative Open House and Symposium dedicated to shaping Milwaukee’s future as a justice-oriented city. \nMilwaukee stands at a pivotal crossroads. As one of the most segregated cities in the United States\, Milwaukee faces a deepening affordable housing crisis that threatens the stability of thousands of families\, particularly in communities of color. The affordable housing crisis is not simply a housing problem. It is a justice problem. \nHousing Justice for Milwaukee: Community Land Trusts\, Equity Strategies\, and the Path to a Justice-Oriented City is not merely a conversation about housing. It is a conversation about power\, community self-determination\, and who gets to call Milwaukee home. Join scholars\, practitioners\, city leaders\, community advocates\, and neighbors as we explore proven\, scalable\, and durable strategies to make affordable housing a lasting reality for Milwaukee’s most vulnerable residents. \n\nRegister by March 31\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\nWednesday\, April 8\n\n\n\n\nTime\nDescription\nLocation\n\n\n\n\n11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\nLunch & Networking\nAUP 126\n\n\n11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\nCEPPJ Open House\nAUP 225\n\n\n12:30-12:45 p.m.\nWelcome & Opening Remarks\nMarcus Commons\n\n\n12:45-1:30 p.m.\nPanel Discussion\nMarcus Commons\n\n\n1:30-1:45 p.m.\nQ & A\nMarcus Commons\n\n\n1:45 pm.-2:00 p.m.\nClosing Remarks\nMarcus Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel Discussion\n\n \n\nDr. Kirk Harris\nModerator\nFounding DirectorCenter for Equity Practice and Planning Justice\nBiography\n\n \n\nIan Bautista\nSenior Director of Civic EngagementGreater Milwaukee Foundation \nBiography\n\n \n\nLamont Davis\nExecutive DirectorMilwaukee Community Land Trust \nBiography\n\n \n\nLatasha Henley\nHomeowner of Land Trust property\nBiography\n\n \n\nSam Leichtling\nDeputy CommissionerDepartment of City Development\nBiography\n\n \n\nErika Sanders\nPresident and CEOMetropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council\nBiography\n\n \n\nBeth Van Gorp\nDirector of Advocacy and Government RelationsMilwaukee Habitat for Humanity\nBiography\n\n \n\nTeig Whalen-Smith\nExecutive DirectorCommunity Development Alliance\nBiography\n\n\n\nIan Bautista\nSenior Director of Civic EngagementGreater Milwaukee Foundation \nIan B. Bautista is Senior Director of Civic Engagement at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation\, where he leads initiatives that advance community change\, public policy engagement\, and racial equity across the Milwaukee region. A seasoned nonprofit and community development leader\, Bautista brings more than two decades of experience working at the local and national levels to strengthen communities and expand opportunity. \nPrior to joining the Foundation in 2020\, Bautista served as Executive Director of the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative\, a collaborative effort on Milwaukee’s South Side focused on implementing a neighborhood Quality of Life Plan. Earlier in his career\, he served as President of the United Neighborhood Centers of America\, a national network of community-based organizations that later merged into what is now Social Current\, and he also served as President & CEO of El Centro\, Inc. in Kansas City\, Kansas. \nA native of Kansas City\, Kansas\, Bautista holds an MBA from Rockhurst University and a Master of Regional and Community Planning\, along with bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Spanish\, from Kansas State University. He lives in Whitefish Bay\, Wisconsin with his family and remains active in civic leadership and community service. \n\n\nErika Sanders\nPresident and CEOMetropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council \nErika Sanders is President and CEO of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council (MMFHC)\, Wisconsin’s only full-service private fair housing enforcement agency. She has been with MMFHC since 1998\, and has played multiple roles within the organization. Over the last 28 years\, she has provided direct services to victims of illegal housing discrimination\, created and implemented education and outreach campaigns on numerous specialized fair housing topics\, and conducted training for owners and managers of rental housing. Ms. Sanders holds degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin – Madison. \n\n\nLamont Davis\nExecutive DirectorMilwaukee Community Land Trust  \nLamont Davis is Executive Director of the Milwaukee Community Land Trust (MCLT)\, where he leads efforts to expand permanently affordable homeownership and advance community-driven solutions to the housing affordability crisis. His work focuses on creating pathways to homeownership for families historically excluded from traditional housing markets\, while ensuring affordability is preserved for future generations. \nLamont has helped grow MCLT into a trusted community-based housing organization\, working in partnership with local governments\, financial institutions\, philanthropic organizations\, and neighborhood stakeholders. He has led initiatives to acquire\, rehabilitate\, and steward homes in historically disinvested neighborhoods\, with a focus on stabilizing communities\, preventing displacement\, and building long-term community wealth. \nHis leadership is informed by practical experience in residential construction and housing development\, allowing him to connect policy\, development\, and stewardship into a cohesive strategy for sustainable impact. Lamont is a recognized advocate for the Community Land Trust model and frequently speaks on topics including closing the racial homeownership gap\, permanently affordable housing\, community wealth building\, and equitable neighborhood development. \nHe is committed to advancing housing as a foundation for economic stability\, dignity\, and opportunity\, and brings both technical expertise and lived community perspective to his work and public speaking. \n\n\nSam Leichtling\nDeputy CommissionerDepartment of City Development \nSam Leichtling is the Deputy Commissioner for the City of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development. Sam has worked for the City of Milwaukee since 2008 and has held leadership roles in DCD’s Housing and Planning Divisions including formerly serving as City Planning Director. He holds master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College.  Sam is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a certified Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP).  \n\n\nTeig Whalen-Smith\nExecutive DirectorCommunity Development Alliance \nTeig’s passion is building and leading collaborative teams to make Milwaukee the best place on planet earth. He believes that for Milwaukee to achieve its full potential\, there needs to be a focus on the people and neighborhoods that have been left out of the larger social\, political\, and economic systems. Teig was raised and continues to live in the Sherman Park neighborhood and is a proud Milwaukee Public Schools alumni and parent. \nIn 2022\, Teig was named the Chief Alliance Executive for the Community Development Alliance (CDA). CDA is an affiliation of community development funders and practitioner in the Milwaukee Area that led Milwaukee’s first Collective Affordable Housing Plan\, with the goal of advancing racial equity by providing a quality affordable home for every Milwaukeean. Since the plan has been implemented\, CDA has supported over 300 new and rehabbed homes\, 3\,000 new homeowners\, and raised more than $40 million to support Black & Latino homeownership.  \nPrior to joining CDA\, Teig served as the chief operating officer of Milwaukee County where he managed a $1.2 billion annual budget\, serving one million residents.  Teig supported the expansion of mental health services\, the elimination of chronic homelessness\, and was a core member of the leadership team that was the first municipality in the country to declare racism as a public health crisis and develop a strategic plan to combat racism. Teig also served as the Economic Development Director of Milwaukee County and led the efforts to develop more than $1 billion in the former Park East corridor\, including Fiserv Forum. In his private sector career\, Teig led a community economic development firm that developed $60 million of affordable housing and main street development.  \n\n\nLatasha Henley\nHomeowner of Land Trust property \nLatasha Henley’s journey to homeownership is a story of resilience\, determination\, and hope. A college graduate in the medical field and a dedicated Patient Health Advocate in the nephrology department\, Latasha has always been committed to helping others live healthier lives. Outside of work\, she enjoys caring for her family\, assisting seniors in her community\, and spending time with her beloved grandchildren. \nLatasha began pursuing homeownership in 2010\, but her path was unexpectedly challenged in 2014 when she suffered a stroke that left her disabled. Rather than giving up on her dream\, she found the strength to start again. She worked tirelessly to rebuild her finances\, improve her credit\, and strengthen her financial knowledge. \nIn 2025\, with the support of the Community Land Trust\, Latasha’s years of perseverance paid off when she officially became a homeowner. Today\, her three-bedroom home and spacious backyard provide a safe\, joyful place where she can create memories with her grandchildren and continue building a brighter future for her family. \nLatasha’s story is a powerful reminder that with determination\, support\, and opportunity\, dreams of homeownership can become reality.  \n\n\nBeth Van Gorp\nDirector of Advocacy and Government RelationsMilwaukee Habitat for Humanity \nSince 2015\, Beth Van Gorp has been part of the Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity team and is currently the Director of Advocacy and Government Relations\, which is a new position for the organization. Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity is in the midst of plans to successfully double production of new homes for homeownership and critical home repairs by 2028. Beth’s professional experience includes over 20 years with Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte\, NC. Her roles with Habitat have included volunteer coordination\, accounting\, safety\, AmeriCorps\, and grants management. A native of Iowa\, she is a graduate of the University of Tulsa. \n\n\nSymposium Focus Areas\n\nAffordable Housing Development: Innovative approaches to expanding the supply of permanently affordable homes in Milwaukee neighborhoods.\nCommunity Land Trust Strategies: How the CLT model legally separates land from housing to achieve generational affordability\, with CLT foreclosure rates 6x lower than the national average.\nCommunity Stability & Anti-Displacement: Tools and policies that protect legacy residents from the pressures of gentrification and speculative market forces.\nCommunity Self-Determination: Governance models that keep decision-making power about land and housing in the hands of residents and communities — not absentee investors.\nScalability & Policy Innovation: Pathways to grow and replicate successful affordable housing models city-wide and regionally.\nMilwaukee’s Justice-Oriented City Framework: How affordable housing strategies align with Milwaukee’s broader equity\, inclusion\, and social justice agenda.\n\n\nRegistration\nJoin Us in Shaping Milwaukee’s Future \nThis event is free and open to the public. All are welcome: students\, educators\, practitioners\, policy makers\, residents\, advocates\, and community members committed to housing justice in Milwaukee. Space is limited. Please register by Tuesday\, March 31\, 2026.  \n\nRegister Now\n\n Questions? Contact Maria Holman: holmanmw@uwm.edu \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Center for Equity Practice & Planning Justice\n\nThe Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice (CEPPJ) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning is dedicated to expanding opportunities for historically marginalized communities by addressing deep-rooted patterns of racial segregation in urban and regional planning. Through innovative research\, collaboration\, and community engagement\, CEPPJ focuses on disparities in housing\, transportation\, economic development\, public health\, and education — developing actionable strategies to transform segregated regions into thriving\, equitable communities.\nLearn more about CEPPJ\n\n\n\nAbout the Milwaukee Community Land Trust\n\nThe Milwaukee Community Land Trust (MCLT) is a nonprofit organization that creates permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in Milwaukee. Founded in 2017\, MCLT employs the Community Land Trust model — legally separating land ownership from home ownership to keep homes affordable for generations — while providing robust homebuyer support\, financial education\, and stewardship services. MCLT is a cornerstone of Milwaukee’s affordable housing strategy and a national model for community-driven housing justice.\nLearn more about MCLT
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LOCATION:Marcus Commons\, 2131 East Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Faculty Exhibition Opening Reception & Presentation: Iris Xiaoxue Ma
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeApril 20-May 20\, 2026Gallery hours: Mon-Fri (9 a.m.–5 p.m.)Reception: May 1\, 2026 (4:30-6:30 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism (AUP 146) \n\n\nIris Xiaoxue Ma works with foraged local clay in combination with recycled organic aggregates to produce composite ceramic materials. Through the mis-use of analog and digital ceramic tools\, Ma’s practice focuses on the production of ambiguous objects that question assumptions of materiality\, process\, and craft. This exhibition showcases Iris’s teaching and research work from 2025-2026 supported by 51���� SARUP’s Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellowship.
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LOCATION:Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism sponsored by HGA (AUP 146)\, 2131 E Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bounding Box Architecture: A Comics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeThursday\, April 23\, 2026 (12:30-1:30 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationArchitecture & Urban Planning Building\, Marcus Commons \n\n\nThis workshop is a hands-on introduction to sequential narrative and story-making with students. At a time where bounding boxes are being drawn around faces\, bodies\, and buildings to extract data for AI training\, how might the meta-structure of framing in comics and the graphic arts help us (literally) reframe the built environment around us? What can the format of sequential narrative lend us in troubling times?  \nThis event invites you to attend to the bounding box\, the frame\, and the panel as an actor in architectual representation\, instigating alternate ways of seeing and representing the world. This event will begin with a mini-lecture and introduction to a series of comic works\, followed by an hour of hands-on drawing and conversation. BYO pens and pencils of varying colors and weights. \nBiography\nAmelyn Ng is an architect\, cartoonist\, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. She has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Rice University\, and is a registered architect in the State of Victoria\, Australia. Her work contends with relationships between matter and representation\, and seeks alternate narratives to the status quo of building. While her creative practice engages themes of waste\, material economy\, and planetary extraction\, her research examines the socio-technical relations of architectural representation with a focus on entanglements between labor\, technology\, and material conditions.
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LOCATION:Marcus Commons\, 2131 East Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Overland Flow Paths: Managing Big Rain Without Big Tunnels
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeWednesday\, May 6 (12-1 p.m.) \n\n\nLocationVirtual \n\n\nAn Innovative Cities Lecture\nOverland Flow Paths: Managing Big Rain Without Big Tunnels \nAs extreme rain events become more frequent\, communities are rethinking how stormwater moves across urban landscapes. This session explores the use of overland flow paths—subtle\, landscape-based features within neighborhoods and public rights-of-way that temporarily store\, slow\, and convey stormwater without relying on expensive tunnels or lift stations. \nDrawing on work by the US firm CIS\, international firm Ramboll\, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) and examples from Milwaukee\, New York City\, and Copenhagen\, speakers will show how connected networks of parks\, streets\, and open spaces can reduce flood risk\, support climate adaptation provide co-benefits for the community and quietly perform during big storms while remaining largely invisible the rest of the time. \nThis landscape-based strategy represents a durable\, multi-generational investment in climate adaptation and resilience. When designed well\, overland flow systems can be largely invisible during dry conditions while significantly reducing flood risk during storms. Learn about policy decisions\, phasing\, construction aspects and how parks and public spaces can function as stormwater collection and conveyance areas\, demonstrating how cities of all sizes can reimagine urban topography to better respond to weather that is increasingly outside of our control. \nBiographies\nSimon Kates\, AICP\, WEDG is a senior project manager and climate adaptation planner at Ramboll\, with nearly 20 years of experience in climate adaptation\, land use\, economic development\, and sustainability. Simon’s expertise includes creating climate resilience strategies and vulnerability assessments that address coastal flooding\, inland precipitation\, and urban heat. Throughout his career\, Simon has focused on a community-based approach to planning for complex urban challenges and climate resilience. In his current practice\, he works closely with project partners\, community stakeholders\, and technical experts to find multi-functional solutions that mitigate climate impacts while providing community co-benefits. Simon has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and is currently teaching a Capstone course on Integrated Watershed Planning at Brooklyn College. \nKaren Sands\, AICP\, is the Program Director for CIS\, a national leader in the development and implementation of public infrastructure solutions. Recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women of Water by Mazars in 2020\, Karen’s sustainability career has focused on planning for green infrastructure\, water resources\, energy conservation and renewables\, environmental compliance\, and climate change adaptation / mitigation. She integrates forward-looking research and contextual opportunities that enhance the quality of life for people living\, working\, and playing in cities. Karen uses data analysis and policy analysis to advance innovative environmental solutions. She has worked with and for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to advance the practice areas of regional stormwater management. \n \nLivestream Details\n\n\n\nRegister + Join Lecture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAICP-CM credits will be awarded. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Carolyn Esswein: cesswein@uwm.edu
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SUMMARY:SUPERjury
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time*Thursday\, May 14\, 2026 \n*Dates and times are subject to change. \n\n\nLocationJim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism \n\n\nSUPERjury is a day-long review and celebration of the most provocative undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. With projects nominated for consideration by both students and faculty\, the goal of SUPERjury is to foster self-reflection and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and how our work relates to contemporary issues in practice and the world. \nStudents selected to participate in the review are recognized with honors and cash prizes. It’s a very significant event for the School of Architecture & Urban Planning.
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LOCATION:Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism sponsored by HGA (AUP 146)\, 2131 E Hartford Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Architecture
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SUMMARY:Architecture Summer Camp Academy
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time*July 26\, 2026 (7:30–8:30 p.m.)July 27-31\, 2026 (9 a.m.–12:15 p.m.)Aug 1\, 2026* (9 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) \n*Optional in-person Milwaukee day \n\n\nAges14–18 \n\n\nLocationVirtual\, plus one optional in-person day in Milwaukee \n\n\nContactttaylor@uwm.edu \n\n\nThe UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning offers an opportunity for high school students to experience architecture education through our architecture summer camp\, which we have proudly offered for over two decades.  \nOur Virtual Architecture Summer Camp is ideal for students interested in architecture\, design\, and 3D design technologies. Students in grades 9-12\, including new high school graduates\, will learn the basics of architectural design guided by SARUP faculty member Alex Timmer\, supported by SARUP graduate students\, faculty\, and staff. \nStudents will be presented with situations for which they will design an architectural solution. They’ll learn how to communicate their design ideas through models\, drawings\, text and verbal presentation. Workshops will teach students how to use digital modeling tools\, read architectural drawings\, and document their work through 2D representation. \nIn-Person Visit (Optional)On the final day of camp\, students and families will have an opportunity (this is optional) to visit Milwaukee in person\, take in a few architecture tours\, and have lunch at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning. We’d love to show you around if you can join us in Milwaukee! \nRegistration\nA limited number of seats are available until capacity is reached. Our registration system now features a parent/youth portal\, and all families need to create an account while enrolling in our summer programming. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\nDeadline\nCost\n\n\n\n\nStandard\nMonday\, June 15\, 2026\n$625\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister
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