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As a co-founder of the Hub for Urban Practices [Hub.UP] based out of the Parsons Graduate Urban Programs, myself and a group of colleagues established an annual event bringing together recent graduates, practitioners, and current students who engage urban practices from across the industry. We were particularly interested in building connections between students and future colleagues who see their work as ‘disturbing’ standard methods of practices, in realms that influence everyday urban experience and interaction such as city design, social services, and policy making.

Through collaboration amongst urban-focused disciplines, we seek to explore why the critical approaches learned at The New School are so essential to the debate over the future of city making. Speakers invited to participate in Disturbanist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Challenging Normalized Urban Processes were prompted with the following question as a guiding narrative of the panel series:

How are the critical approaches learned at The New School challenging the normalized processes of city making?

The New School / Parsons graduate urban programs are at the forefront of this challenge. This event will provide a necessary platform for discourse addressing this important question for our community of urban practitioners. Our mission is to cultivate a culture of practice, one that establishes trust and respect via an interdisciplinary discourse both within the field and amongst current students. We seek to represent a diverse range of critical urban practitioners and invite you to participate in this event.

This is an opportunity for recent graduates to speak to the challenges and openings for a new discourse. We build connections between students and future colleagues who see their work as ‘disturbing’ standard methods of practices, in realms that influence everyday urban experience and interaction such as city design, social services, and policy making.

Let’s benefit from the energy we all bring as active change-makers!

Hub.UP co-founders: Rania Dalloul, Nora Elmarzouky, Nadia Elokdah, Gamar Markarian, Sara Minard, and Zanny Venner