Taste of Science is ecSTATIC to announce our first in person event comeback! We invited top researchers from UH and Rice to speak on Houston’s urban planning!
These experts have had a huge impact on the way you interact with the city, and we plan to delve into their minds to see if we can get an insight into how Houston will develop in the future and revitalize its vast area.
Our Accomplished Speakers:
Dr. Stephen L. Klineberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology;
Founding Dir, Kinder Institute for Urban Research:
Co-author of The Present of Things Future: Explorations of Time in Human Experience, and author of Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America. Klineberg serves as the founding director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, launched to offer a model of how research universities and cities can work together to strengthen urban life.
Klineberg appears frequently on radio and television, and is the recipient of twelve major teaching awards. He is an expert on Houston's diversity, arguing that it foreshadows the country's own demographic trajectory.
Curtis M. Davis, RA:
Davis is an architect and urban planner specializing in regional planning, urban design, real estate development, community development, and facility capital program management. He is the founding principal of ReBuildit Collaborative, a city building advisory service, and served as project manager for the Emancipation Community Development Partnership.
Davis is an adjunct faculty member at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. As project executive, Davis oversaw the planning, facility programming, and designer selection phases for the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Dr. Bruce Race, PhD, FAIA, FAICP:
Race is the principal and founder of RACESTUDIO, with his projects having received 33 design and planning awards. Dr. Race joined the Gerald D. Hines School of Architecture as Director of University of Houston’s newly created Center for Sustainability and Resilience (CeSAR).
Additionally, Dr. Race is the PI for two energy and detention-positive mixed-use projects in Houston, including the first mixed-use town center for Habitat for Humanity in the United States that has received the 2021 APA Texas Gold Award for Resilience.