Manifest Events

20.04.21
FUTURE FOSSILS AND ELYSIAN FIELDS
Hosted by Cooper Union

“Spatial immensity beggars designation.” - John R. Stilgoe

What does it mean to grapple with the immensity of the Americas? For the third issue of Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, we aim to highlight propositions that have taken seriously the “bigger than big” - design and representational experiments aimed at narrating, framing, or enacting the American continent and the forms and ideas which it animates. For this event Anthony Acciavatti and Dan Handel talk to Lydia Xynogala on “Future Fossils” and Enrique Ramirez on “Elysian Fields” in the Americas.

14.04.21
GEOLOGICAL TIME
Hosted by UIC Architecture

For this event two of the founding editors, Anthony Acciavatti and Dan Handel, will moderate a conversation on the potentials and pitfalls of geological time as a frame of reference for rethinking American immensity, bringing together Lydia Xynogala on the future archeology of nuclear waste sites, Kathleen John-Alder on the slow time of nature writing, and Francesco Marullo on the pace of American deserts.

13.04.21
IMMENSITY AND AMERICAN MATTER OUT OF SCALE
Hosted by the Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Join us in a conversation between Manifest editors and Jennifer Bonner on trucking and landforms across the Americas, Jill Desimini on mesmerizing mines, Kathleen John-Alder on knowing what the mountain knows, and Charles Waldheim on the immensity of O’Hare International Airport.

29.03.21
SCALES OF DESCRIPTION
Hosted by Di Tella Arquitectura

For this event Mauricio Quiros discussed the power of description in narrating processes of nation building and lived experiences with Ana María León on "Bones of the Nation", Mariana Siracusa on “Wonderland Patagonia” and Enrique Ramirez on “Wallaciae Encomium”. Two of the journal’s founding editors, Anthony Acciavatti and Dan Handel, talked to Anna Font about the mission and editorial process that shape Manifest.

22.03.21
LIGHT OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Hosted by SPAZIO

In this event, Author and photographer Giovanna Silva discussed Enzo Mari and the book Absolutely Nothing by Giorgio Vasta and Ramak Fazel, published by Humboldt Books, and landscape designers Other Fields (Colleen Tuite and Ian Quate) retraced their gonzo journeys into oil booms and geological time.

19.03.21
POWER OF DESCRIPTION
Hosted by Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities

A conversation between Jennifer Bonner on “Mountains and Highways,” Marshall Brown on “The New Country,” and Lydia Xynogala on “Future Fossils” in the Americas.

02.03.21
ON THE IMMENSITY OF AMAZONIA
Hosted by Yale School of Architecture

Join Anthony Acciavatti and Dan Handel, editors of Manifest, in a conversation with Ana María Durán Calisto, Felipe Correa, and Laurent Troost about the geographies, infrastructures, and cultures of Amazonia and what they can teach us about American immensity

23.02.21
RECONSIDERING IMMENSITY
Hosted by UVA School of Architecture

Reconsidering Immensity is a conversation between Manifest journal editors and contributing UVA faculty and alumni in celebration of the journal's issue #3 "Bigger than Big" launch.