Unwalling Citizenship by guest speakers Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman will discuss their work on ?citizenship culture" at the U.S.-Mexico border and the network of sanctuary spaces they have co-developed with border communities to support migrant populations and cultivate regional and global solidarities.

Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman is a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego investigating borders, informal urbanization, climate resilience, civic infrastructure and public culture. They lead variety of community-based urban research agendas and civic / public interventions in the San Diego-Tijuana border region and beyond, including the UCSD Community Stations initiative. Their work has been exhibited widely in prestigious cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; M+ Hong Kong, and representing the United States in the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale. They have two new monographs: Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks and Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up (MIT Press) and a third forthcoming: Unwalling Citizenship (Verso).

Teddy Cruz (MDes Harvard University) is a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

Fonna Forman (PhD University of Chicago) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice.