The Planners Network Chapter at UIUC meets the second and fourth Friday of the month at 12 pm, Temple Buell Hall, Room 19
| Spring 2009 Calendar |
January 27: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 223
February 13: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 19
February 27: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 19
March 13: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 19
March 27: Spring Break, No meeting
April 10: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 19
April 24: Planners Network General Meeting at 12 pm, TBH Room 19 |
Fall 2008 Calendar
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September 16: Planners Network General Meeting at 12.30 pm, TBH Room 223
September 18: Don Mitchell, the author of The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space will be talking at TBH Plym Auditorium at 7 pm.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coming Activities TBA
October 2: Dinner with Teresa Cordova, member of the Planners Network Advisory Committee and Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico. The dinner will take place in Prof. Elizabeth Sweet's home, please e-mail her esweet1@illinois.edu
October 7: Planners Network General Meeting at 12.30 pm, TBH Room 223
October 7: Movie Night: "Trouble the Water" at Boardman's Art Theater. The filmmaker will be on town, and we'll have the opportunity to talk with him. After the movie, we will continue the discussion at Cup Cakes on Walnut in Downtown Champaign.
October 8: PhD Seminar: "Vulture Cities: How planning engages gender violence", by Betsy Sweet and Sara Ortiz Escalante. TBH Room 19 at 12 pm.
October 16: Game Night. Come to play Stratified Monopoly! TBH Atrium at 5 pm.
October 21: Planners Network General Meeting at 12.30 pm, TBH Room 223
November 11: Planners Network General Meeting at 12.30 pm, TBH Room 223
November 12: The Beehive Collective, TBH Atrium at 1pm
November 12: David McDonald, TBH Plym Auditorium at 5 pm
November 17: Brownbag Lunch "Safe Space or Containment: Urban Planning Issues in Andersonville and Boystown in Chicago", by Mariela Alburges at 12 pm in room 323 Illini Union, (co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Office on campus)
December 2: Planners Network General Meeting at 12.30 pm, TBH Room 223 |
| News |
Airing Planning's Dirty Laundry. Look at some pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Planners Network member, Chuck Allen, on the news. Check it out! http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4201310p-4793059c.html
Planners Network Disorientation Guide http://plannersnetwork.org/publications/pdfs/Disorientation_Guide.pdf |
Planners Network Chapter
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Planners Network Chapter at UIUC is an organization of students,
faculty, professionals and other activist planners involved in
community development for social justice.
Collectively we ascribe to the international organization of
the Planners Network statement principals set forth below:
“We believe that planning should be a tool for allocating resources and
developing the environment to eliminate the great inequalities
of wealth and power in our society, rather than to maintain and justify the status
quo. We are committed to opposing racial, economic, and environmental injustice
and discrimination by gender and sexual orientation. We believe that planning
should be used to assure adequate food, clothing, housing, medical care, jobs,
safe working conditions, and a healthful environment. We advocate public responsibility
for meeting these needs, because the private market has proven
incapable of doing so.
We seek to be an effective political and social force, working
with other progressive organizations to inform public opinion
and public policy and to provide assistance to those seeking
to understand, control, and change the forces which affect their
lives” (http://www.plannersnetwork.org).
Specifically, we determined this preliminary mission statement
for the purposes of educational and professional development
for all members of this Chapter:
We pledge to make planning education and practice more inclusive at UIUC by
including materials/values/methods/issues that are often absent
and marginalized in traditional planning, whereas
an inclusive planning curricula is,
- Multicultural and necessarily plural, whereas
planners and students of planning are of all nationalities,
class, race, gender, ethnicities and age and not represented
by a singular ideology or dominant culture.
- Multidisciplinary and multi-vocational,
whereas planning occurs inside and outside of all
levels of public and private sectors (such as community organizations
and not-for-profits), and planners are of essence
anyone who actively and purposefully affects for change, regardless
of “field” or area of work/study, compensation
level and professional title (such as activists and organizers).
- Multi-knowledge and multi-modeled, whereas
there are just as many ways of knowing and experiencing as
there are as many ways of learning and teaching.
- Multi-issued and fundamentally social, whereas
planning affects multiple aspects of everyday experience, in
addition to the physical, and concerns any number of issues
involving social justice.
To learn more or join the Planners
Network Chapter at UIUC please
contact mpognon2@illinois.edu ccallen3@illinois.edu hughes14@illinois.edu and alburge1@uiuc.edu
You can also join the Chapter listserv and stay informed of upcoming
events by clicking the link below:
http://listserv.uiuc.edu/wa.cgi?SUBED1=pn-uiuc&A=1
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