Date: Wednesday, November 14, 7:00 pm
Speakers: Constance C. Bodurow and Grace Lee Boggs in conversation
Constance C. Bodurow is an urbanist, a registered planner, a professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University, and founding principal of Detroit-based Design Equity Urban Design + Planning. She holds a BFA cum laude in industrial design from Michigan State University and a dual master’s degree in architecture and city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bodurow's professional work has received national, state, and local awards from the the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Planning Association, and the National Waterfront Center, and her academic research has been published through the American Collegiate Schools of Archtiecture (ACSA). Professor Bodurow was recently appointed as one of five national Advisory Group members for the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee, and is currently writing a series of articles on urban design, entitled “Design Matters,” for Metro Times.
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer, and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major US social movements of the last century: labor, civil rights, black power, Asian American, women's, and the environment. She received her PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1940, and in the 1940s and 1950s collaborated with CLR James, legendary father of postcolonial studies. In 1992, with James Boggs, her spouse of 40 years, Shea Howell, and others, she founded Detroit Summer, a multicultural, intergenerational youth program to rebuild, redefine, and re-spirit Detroit from the ground up, which completed its fourteenth season in the summer of 2006. She was recently profiled by Bill Moyers on national public television and featured in the July 2007 issue of Harper’s magazine. At age 92, she continues to write a weekly column for the Michigan Citizen newspaper.
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