Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas

The Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas, founded in 2009, offers dynamic public programs by specialists who provide informed perspectives and explore all facets of Asia, from history and culture to agriculture, global health and politics. In keeping with the Seattle Art Museum’s mission SAM connects art to life, the Gardner Center seeks to offer a holistic look at Asia, including dialogue around challenging contemporary issues.

	Visit the SAM calendar for upcoming events at the Gardner Center.

Saturday University Lecture Series

The Future of Asia's Cities: Design, Environment, Health

Saturdays, February 18–April 7, 9:30–11 am

The explosive growth of Asia’s cities and its global implications is a critical issue of our time. How can cities innovate to address design, environmental, and public health challenges? Some lecture titles or speakers may change.

Full series tickets: $38 SAM members, $76 nonmembers
Individual lecture tickets: $5 SAM members, $10 nonmembers

Saturday University Lectures:

• February 18, 2012
  Health Trends in Asia During Three Decades of Growth, 1980–2010, Chris Murray
• February 25, 2012
  Greening Cities: Possibilities and Practices in Indonesia and China, Abidin Kusno & Lisa Hoffman
• March 3, 2012
  Why Asia’s Cities Strangle Rivers, Frank Rijsberman
• March 10, 2012
  Life in an Asian Slum, Melanie Walker & Celine d’Cruz
• March 17, 2012
  Urbanism and Health, Howard Frumkin & William Daniell
• March 24, 2012
  Messy Urbanism, Bottom-up Placemaking, Daniel Abramson & Jeffrey Hou
• March 31, 2012
  Designed Ecologies—Built Solutions to Urban Environmental Issues, Kongjian Yu
• April 7, 2012
  Asian Urbanism: Negotiating the Global, Vikram Prakash & Ananya Roy
• April 7, 2012
  

Other Gardner Center Events:

• February 9, 2012
  Food and Faith in Japan
  Food for Good or Evil? Buddhist Precepts and Food as Depicted in Medieval Japanese Handscrolls with Professor Satomi Yamamoto, Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo
• February 14, 2012
  Author's Reading: Katherine Boo
  
• February 16, 2012
  Food and Faith in Japan
  The Miraculous Origins of Kitano Tenjin Shrine Handscroll Painting with Professor Akira Takagishi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• February 18, 2012
  Tour of "Painting Seattle"
  with Curator Barbara Johns, in honor of the Japanese American Day of Remembrance

Contact Us

206.442.8480
Gardnercenter@seattleartmuseum.org
Monday–Friday: 9 am–5 pm

The Gardner Center is proud to partner with the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, Elliott Bay Book Company, and a variety of organizations involved with Asia.