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SUMMARY:Paul L. Cejas Lecture Series Presents James Rojas
LOCATION:PCA - Paul Cejas Architecture Building BEA Gallery\, 11200 SW 8th
  ST\, Paul Cejas Architecture Bldg\, Miami\, Florida 33199
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to next week’s Department of Landscape Architec
 ture + Environmental and Urban Design Spring 2026 Lecture.\n\nJames Rojas
  is an urban planner\, community activist\, and artist. He has developed 
 an innovative public-engagement and community-visioning method that uses 
 art-making as its medium. Through this method he has engaged thousands of
  people by facilitating over four hundred workshops and building over fif
 ty interactive models around the world – from the streets of New York and
  San Francisco\, to Mexico\, Canada\, Europe\, and South America. He has 
 collaborated with municipalities\, non-profits\, community groups\, educa
 tional institutions\, and museums\, to engage\, educate\, and empower the
  public on transportation\, housing\, open space\, and health issues.\n\n
 Rojas is also one of the few nationally recognized urban planners to exam
 ine U.S. Latino cultural influences on urban design and sustainability. H
 e has written and lectured extensively on how culture and immigration are
  transforming the American front yard and landscape. He is the founder of
  the Latino Urban Forum\, an advocacy group dedicated to increasing aware
 ness around planning and design issues facing low-income Latinos.\n\nRoja
 s has lectured and facilitated workshops at MIT\, Berkeley\, Harvard\, Co
 rnell\, and numerous other colleges and universities. His installation wo
 rk has been shown at the Los Museum of Contemporary Art\, The Institute o
 f Contemporary Art / Boston\, the Venice Biennale\, the Exploratorium\, t
 he Yerba \n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/89e547c4-0583-41f6-893d-c16e4518
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