BOMBlive: Deborah Gans and Matthew Coolidge

Deborah Gans Studio works on the landscapes of refugee camps and is featured alongside the CLUI in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. Much of the work generated by the Gans Studio is devoted to re-thinking how architecture can participate in the invention of new social forms, often by focusing on extreme situations that yield insights for everyday life. She is a professor in the architecture school at Pratt Institute.

Matthew Coolidge is a founder and director of The Center for Land Use Interpretation, an organization dedicated to improving the collective understanding about humans and the landscapes that they inhabit. The Center makes exhibits, publications, tours, and web resources about the built landscape of the Unites States at museums and other non-commercial venues. Matthew is the author of several books, three of which include Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to America's Nuclear Proving Ground, and Upriver: Points of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy. He teaches in the graduate Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. BOMB thanks the Pratt Institute for hosting this conversation and Deborah Gans for organizing it.

Part of the BOMBLive! series In the Open: Art and Architecture in Public Spaces, sponsored by Cary-Brown Epstein, Steven Epstein, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Listen to the complete conversation here: bombsite.com/​issues/​999/​articles/​3503

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