UCSD Center on Global Justice

11/11/2020

https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2020/10/27/interview-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman-prouve-tijuana/?fbclid=IwAR0buSiqIgLVuvSgTScV5WS7jc1yu66SUq1QtoEkxpy_AZafCAnE3agbeFk

Architect Teddy Cruz and political theorist Fonna Forman speak about a new social-housing project on the outskirts of Tijuana, and its connections to the modernist designer Jean Prouvé, with cultural historian Robert M. Rubin and critic Alastair Gordon.

11/06/2020

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/at-the-border/358908/unwalling-citizenship/

The Tijuana-San Diego border region is a global laboratory for engaging the central challenges of urbanization today: deepening social and economic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, urban informality, climate change, the thickening of border walls, and the decline of public thinking. The main s...

05/23/2018

With Trump undaunted in his quest to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the U.S. pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale will look at issues of citizenship and the border — and the ways in which it remains incredibly porous.

04/26/2018

Joyce Cutler-Shaw's Dialogues In Art & Architecture Series
Free Admission

Wednesdays, April 25 & May 9, 2018
All lectures begin at 7:30PM

April 25 »
The Aesthetics Of Resistance
Sally Yard, PhD, Professor of Art History, USD
Can Bilsel, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Art History, USD
Moderator » Robert Pincus
May 9 »
MEXUS: Cross-Border Citizens
Teddy Cruz, Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization, UCSD
Fonna Forman, Professor of Political Theory, UCSD

04/25/2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/regardless-of-trumps-wall-talk-the-borders-always-been-blurry-to-these-architects/2018/04/09/7f659d7a-2170-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html

An industry long known for global connections is caught, somewhat unexpectedly, in a political maelstrom.

04/25/2018

Tackling the ever-complex question of what it means to be a citizen, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition “Dimensions of Citizenship” for the 2018 Venice Biennale will comprise of seven architectural installations that explore this loaded topic at seven different spatial scales. Today, the U.S...

10/21/2013

Visit the CGJ website to view videos of the Spring 2013 events including Mary Robinson, V. Ramanathan and Forum on Energy and Climate Justice!

The UCSD Center on Global Justice is a new Organized Research Unit (ORU) on the UCSD campus that promotes collaborative research among scholars across disciplines, communities and organizations to achieve more effective and sustainable results in bettering human life, locally and across the globe.