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 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 7/25/20 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.

Malcolm John Rio 5/30/15 Malcolm John Rio 5/30/15

2015 RISD Commencement Graduate Address

Watch my address to the RISD class of 2015.