[bioundgrd] Fwd: Invitation to Opening Reception Monday 5/10

[Janice Chang]

>Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:37:01 -0400
>Subject: Invitation to Opening Reception M 5/10 - please email to 
>bio undergrads
>From: Minh Huynh-Le <huynhle at MIT.EDU>
>
>
>SLAB:  sidewalk laboratory
>
>	street vendors
>	social construction
>	space
>	Saigon
>
>
>Opening reception, Monday May 10, noon
>Rotch Library exhibit, May 10 - June 30
>
>The exhibit includes an installation of the symbolic vocabulary 
>practiced on Ho Chi Minh City's sidewalks and photographs of some of 
>the 250 street vendors that the research team interviewed in January 
>2010.  These are a part of SLAB's larger research agenda to develop 
>a critical and publicly engaged cartography 
>that celebrates, reconstructs knowledge about, and advocates for one 
>of the most mundane of public spaces in a mega-city of the 
>developing world.
>
>Associate Professor Annette M. Kim
>with Holly Bellocchio Durso '10, Tiffany Chu '10, Minh Huynh-Le '10, 
>and Courtney Sung '10
>
>Funded in part by a Director's Grant from the Council for the Arts 
>at MIT and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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