Creative Spaces Empowering the City

How do creative spaces empower and strengthen our cities? Leaders in the fields of art, architecture and urban planning discuss the vital need for creative public spaces, as well as the need to create opportunities for artists to share work in those spaces. Some of the most ambitious new projects in these areas have been in New York and Hong Kong, including The Shed, a project the New York Times calls a “feat of architectural engineering,” and West Kowloon District’s M+ Museum, a world-class facility for visual culture. Join Nicholas Baume (Public Art Fund), Alex Poots (The Shed), Suhanya Raffel (M+ Museum), and Cassim Shepard (Columbia GSAPP) for an engaging conversation about the role of art in the community.

Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of the New York Public Art FundAlex Poots, Founding Chief Executive and Artistic Director of The ShedSuhanya Raffel, Executive Director of the M+ Museum, part of the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong KongModerated by Cassim Shepard, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP

This program is made possible by The Kai-Yin Lo Distinguished Program Series which aims to create a platform to discuss the role of Asian arts and culture in contemporary society.