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SUMMARY:Paul L. Cejas Lecture Series: Featuring James Rojas
LOCATION:PCA - Paul Cejas Architecture Building BEA Gallery\, 11200 SW 8th
  ST\, Paul Cejas Architecture Bldg\, Miami\, Florida 33199
DESCRIPTION:Bio:\n\nJames Rojas is an urban planner\, community activist\,
  and artist. He has developed an innovative public-engagement and communi
 ty-visioning method that uses art-making as its medium. Through this meth
 od he has engaged thousands of people by facilitating over four hundred w
 orkshops and building over fifty interactive models around the world - fr
 om the streets of New York and San Francisco\, to Mexico\, Canada\, Europ
 e\, and South America. He has collaborated with municipalities\, non-prof
 its\, community groups\, educational institutions\, and museums\, to enga
 ge\, educate\, and empower the public on transportation\, housing\, open 
 space\, and health issues.\n\nRojas is also one of the few nationally rec
 ognized urban planners to examine U.S. Latino cultural influences on urba
 n design and sustainability. He has written and lectured extensively on h
 ow culture and immigration are transforming the American front yard and l
 andscape. He is the founder of the Latino Urban Forum\, an advocacy group
  dedicated to increasing awareness around planning and design issues faci
 ng low-income Latinos.\n\nRojas has lectured and facilitated workshops at
  MIT\, Berkeley\, Harvard\, Cornell\, and numerous other colleges and uni
 versities. His installation work has been shown at the Los Museum of Cont
 emporary Art\, The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston\, the Venice Bi
 ennale\, the Exploratorium\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Bronx 
 Museum of Art\, and the Getty. His research has appeared in The New York 
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