Sharing

The Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series 2018 was organized in collaboration with PLAT journal and Rice Architecture.

Through a series of lectures and accompanying publications, RDA’s Fall Lecture Series 2018 explored different definitions of the sharing economy as they relate to the built environment. Many of the physical spaces that architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and engineers design are inherently locales of joint access and participation. Today, digitally-based platforms, supported by vast physical infrastructures, facilitate new types of exchange. Such platforms bring about liberating possibilities to actualize transnational networks that coalesce around food, shelter, transportation, and talent. Yet, for every emancipatory path an equally restrictive one exists.

The Fall Lecture Series 2018 addressed these rapidly changing notions of sharing and invited three internationally renowned practitioners to reflect on their experiences and the ways in which they have affected their design thinking.

The lectures were free and open to the public.

RDA’s Fall Lecture Series 2018 was sponsored through generous funding provided by the Humanities Research Center and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies’ GradStarter program, as well as the Rice Management Company. The Jack Self Lecture was part of the Cullinan Lecture and Seminar Series.

It was also supported by our Underwriters, including ABB Group, Cardno, DPR Construction, D.E. Harvey Builders, Hines, m Strategic Partners, Louisa Stude Sarofim, Stantec, Walter P Moore, and Charlotte & Larry Whaley.
With sponsorship support from AGC, Houston; Anslow Bryant Construction; Arup; Austin Commercial, LP; Builders West; CannonDesign; Dally + Associates; Debner+Company; D|G Studios; DLR Group; Forney Construction; Gensler; Heitkamp Swift Architects; HKS, Inc.; Hoar Construction; Jacob|White Construction; JE Dunn Construction; Kirksey; Leslie Elkins Architecture; Linbeck Group; Marek Companies; McCoy-Rockford,Inc.; MLN Company; O’Donnell/Snider Construction; OJB Landscape Architecture; Office Pavilion; Perkins+Will; PGAL; PhiloWilke Partnership; STG Design; Phoebe & Bobby Tudor; and Way Engineering.

This program was also supported by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission for the Arts.

Thank you to our post-lecture reception sponsors Sheryl Kolasinski, Marek Companies, and Gensler.

Rice Design Alliance is an AIA/CES Registered Provider of quality educational programs. For each lecture, attendees earned one Learning Unit.