Malcolm John Rio 7/8/22 Malcolm John Rio 7/8/22

2022 Mentor for Harvard University’s Climate Justice Design Fellowship Program

The mission of the Climate Justice Design Fellowship program is to empower environmental justice advocates and public servants from around the United States to design and build accessible data tools that help them promote equity and justice in their communities.

Malcolm John Rio 10/28/21 Malcolm John Rio 10/28/21

Architecture, Modernity, & the Post-Colonial Narrative

New faculty members Malcolm Rio and Germán Pallares-Avitia explore architectural history through the lens of decoloniality.

Malcolm John Rio 10/8/21 Malcolm John Rio 10/8/21

Black in Design 2021: “Designing for Black Queer Pleasure, Joy, and Intimacy”

Watch the panel I moderated at Harvard GSD’s Black in Design 2021 Conference, featuring Ashon Crawley, Leslie Wilson, Aneesah Ettress, and founder of Papi Juice Adam R.

Malcolm John Rio 9/6/21 Malcolm John Rio 9/6/21

RISD Architecture Faculty Conversation 3: Malcolm Rio and Germán Pallares-Avitia

Watch Social Equity and Inclusion Fellow Germán Pallares and I discuss racial and social justice in architectural education and the challenges of teaching architectural history through the lens of anitcoloniality/“decoloniality.”

Malcolm John Rio 4/2/21 Malcolm John Rio 4/2/21

Cinema and Architectural Imagination—The Trans*Metropolis

I will be presenting a parallel trans and urbanism reading of Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 Ghost in the Shell at MIT’s Spring 2021 Cinema and Architectural Imagination Series.

Malcolm John Rio 2/27/21 Malcolm John Rio 2/27/21

“Anti-Racism in Thesis Workshop” at The Cooper Union

I will be a panelist on Cooper Union’s “Anti-racism in Thesis Workshop,” being held virtually Saturday, February 27, 2021, 10AM - 4PM.

Malcolm John Rio 2/17/21 Malcolm John Rio 2/17/21

“Mellon Forum: Urban Speculation // Queer Resistance,” at Princeton University

I will be a panelist at this year’s Princeton-Mellon Forum, speaking about ballroom culture and queer urban resistance.

Malcolm John Rio 1/18/21 Malcolm John Rio 1/18/21

The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021

The Architectural Initiative for Diversity (AID) will be kicking off The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Virtual Symposium 2021 with a discussion on "Justice & the Creator God" on Saturday the 16th while the main day will be the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Monday, January 18.

Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20 Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20

“House & Home: A Conversation,” Columbia University

I will be in conversation with the architecturally trained visual artist Amanda Williams, architect, educator, and author, Professor Hansy Better Barraza, and fellow BSA+GSAPP members Skylar Royal and Ife Salema Vanable where we will explore forms of cultural production in which “house” and “home,” mobilized as architectural allegory and material object (“thing,” with its attendant systems of construction, finance, land, and labor), advance and/or refute claims on agency, authorship, and normativity.

Malcolm John Rio 7/30/20 Malcolm John Rio 7/30/20

Buell Center: Green Reconstruction Curricular Workshop

On July 30, i will be moderating a workshop of twenty-six teachers from professional schools in the built environment gathered virtually with the Buell Center and additional faculty from Columbia GSAPP, for an online workshop on "Green Reconstruction," which studies the interconnectedness of today's crises of care, political economy, and climate.

Malcolm John Rio 7/25/20 Malcolm John Rio 7/25/20

“Surrounds: The City, the University, and Insurgency,” with the podcast African Mobilities 2.0

I will be joining a roundtable discussion on the “Surrounds: The City, The University, and Insurgency,” joined by other members of the Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP [BSA+GSAPP] and hosted by the podcasters (African Mobilities 2.0) and curator Mpho Matsipa to respond to the latest episode of African Mobilities 2.0 on enclosure featuring GSAPP faculty members Justin Garrett Moore and Global Africa Lab co-directors Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden.

Malcolm John Rio 5/7/20 Malcolm John Rio 5/7/20

Threshold 48: Kin, “Get-together” Launch Party

Watch the digital launch party for the 48th volume of Thresholds! Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and distributed by the MIT Press. Each independently themed issue features content from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, and culture. Thresholds 48: Kin is edited by Stratton Coffman, Dalma Földesi, and Sarah Wagner.