{"id":24919,"date":"2026-02-26T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24919"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:56:08","slug":"sacd-dichotomy-lecture-series-explores-who-is-the-decolonial-urban-designer-on-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/02\/26\/sacd-dichotomy-lecture-series-explores-who-is-the-decolonial-urban-designer-on-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SACD Dichotomy lecture series explores &#8216;Who is the decolonial urban designer?&#8217; on March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/architecture.udmercy.edu\/\">School of Architecture &amp; Community Development (SACD)<\/a> 2026 <em>Dichotomy<\/em> Lecture Series will host <a href=\"https:\/\/shreyavadrevu.com\/\">Shreya Vadrevu<\/a>, who was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dichotomyjournal.com\/home\/wildlife-e9cra-sy9th-f9xth-ca37z\"><em>Dichotomy 28:RED<\/em><\/a>, for a lecture titled &#8220;Who is the decolonial urban designer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will take place on <strong>Monday March 2, <\/strong>from <strong>4:30-5:30 p.m.<\/strong> in the Warren Loranger Architecture Building Exhibition Space. All are welcome to attend this <strong>free<\/strong> event.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation explores the complexities of post-colonial perspectives within urban design. Focusing on mixed methods of photography, counter-mapping and participatory documentation of public markets, the presentation asks an important question: What is the evolution of a decolonial urban designer?<\/p>\n<p>Vadrevu is an urbanist and architectural designer, who holds a Master of Urban Design from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Architecture from PES University, Bengaluru. She currently works as an architectural designer in the K-12 education space and continues to work with Dystopia, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about speciesism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/architecture.udmercy.edu\/school\/dichotomy.php\"><em>Dichotomy<\/em><\/a>, a student-published journal of SACD, strives to be the critical link to the discourse on design, architecture, urbanism and community development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SACD Dichotomy team welcomes Shreya Vadrevu for an engaging lecture that explores post-colonial perspectives in urban design on March 2, at 4:30 p.m., in the Loranger Architecture Building Exhibition Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,6438,4404],"tags":[91,243,242,1146,331,4920,5613,4915,4837],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6tV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25018,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions\/25018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}