This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, are highlighted by Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations kicking off this Friday. Other events to tune into address topics such as decolonization, surveillance, automation, public and domestic placemaking, healthy communities, and design experience.

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Sharon E. Sutton: Decolonizing the City-Making Professions: Learning from the Dreams and Defeats of the 1960s
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is a distinguished visiting professor of architecture at Parsons School of Design and has also served on the faculties of Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington. She was the twelfth African American woman to be licensed to practice architecture, the first to be promoted to full professor of architecture, and the second to be elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. 
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Exhibit Columbus 2021 Design Presentations
Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00 AM – Friday, March 26, 2021 4:00 PM EDT
Exhibit Columbus announces the 2021 Design Presentations The Design Presentations unveil design concepts for the 2021 Exhibition and invite the public to participate in the creative process Over the course of four sessions on March 19 and 26, 2021, Exhibit Columbus will host the 2021 Design Presentations. The second public event in the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City? invites the public to preview design concepts of thirteen site-specific, future-oriented public installations and experience the design process first-hand. Please register for the free sessions and learn more. Each will allow AIA architects to earn 2 LUs
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Lauren Lee McCarthy Lecture
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Lauren Lee McCarthy (she/they) is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is Co-Director of the Processing Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts and beyond.
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Points of Action
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Points of Action features “espresso” presentations and a conversation about two recent projects that explore how public and domestic placemaking can help support connected, resilient, healthy communities.
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Cal Poly Pomona M.Arch Program Open House
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Join Cal Poly Pomona for their MArch Open House for Fall 2021 admission - The Department will be conducting a ZOOM Open House for the Master of Architecture Program on March 23rd, 2021, 10a-12n PST Please RSVP to arc@cpp.edu Provide your name, email, and phone number to receive ZOOM address and password for this event. 
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Return on Experience, a Conversation With the Authors
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM HKT
Join us for an hour-long conversation with Co-Authors, Tim Kobe, Founder and CEO of Eight Inc., and Roger Lehman, Psychoanalyst, MIT Senior Lecturer & Emeritus Senior Affiliate Professor, INSEAD, as they discuss their new book, Return on Experience. Led by Mr. Wu Chen, Managing Director of The Economist Global Business Review, we'll dive into the fundamental belief that design is integral to everything we do and that all human existence has been a result of a progression of successful design outcomes.
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