Charla con Cafe: 'Reimagining Mexico City's Water System as a Vibrant Assemblage'

When: November 08, 2019 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Speakers: Jeff Banister, Professor of Geography and Director, Southwest Center, University of Arizona; Stacie Widdifield, Professor of Art, University of Arizona

About the talk: In this talk, we explore Mexico City's waterscape in the context of the current water crisis, typically framed in terms of deficient supply and inadequate infrastructure. The city's variegated and expansive water-control geography is often referred to as a single hydraulic "system" rather than more accurately as a concatenation – an assemblage – of responses to water-control crises over time. We draw from and develop the idea of "assemblage" as a way to imagine, to catch a glimpse of, the capital's vibrant historic waterscapes as they are lived, built, visualized, and archived. We bring the shared visual concerns of art history and cultural geography to examine Chapultepec Park, in which the conjoined Lerma and Xochimilco "systems" simultaneously supply distant potable water to Mexico City and are archived into a museum space.


Audience: All
Audience size: Small (1-50)

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Campus: Main Campus

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Clea Conlin Center for Latin American Studies

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Clea Conlin