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Papers by Jose Gamez

Collaborations: A Journal of Community-based Research and Practice, 2021

This article describes a four-phased action research project that emerged over a sixyear period, ... more This article describes a four-phased action research project that emerged over a sixyear period, eventually leading to a $600,000 investment by local government in a new neighborhood park. We demonstrate, through our community-university partnership, how we built on each phase of action research initially by establishing and developing relationships, increasing participation levels in the neighborhood organization and neighborhood sponsored events, and building long-term participation, which enabled the establishment of a collective vision. This ultimately led to increased social capital and strengthened local power through political voice. We argue that by connecting four phases of action research, we were able to achieve significant community change in partnership with local neighborhood residents and that this form of a long-term and multi-based approach can address some of the common challenges inherent to community-university partnerships.

Technology/Architecture + Design, 2020

COVID-19 will have lasting impact upon our teaching methodologies and learning outcomes, from pri... more COVID-19 will have lasting impact upon our teaching methodologies and learning outcomes, from primary school through higher education. For design schools specifically, this pandemic has reinforced the importance of collaborative design processes across multiple disciplines and modes of inquiry. This article describes UNC Charlotte School of Architecture experiences in spring of 2020.

ACSA Webinar: Schools Respond to a Pandemic

Schools Respond to a Pandemic José Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Alex Cabral, ... more Schools Respond to a Pandemic
José Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alex Cabral, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Heather Freeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Thomas Schmidt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Closing campuses and remote learning is one result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, students, staff and faculty are working together to help communities respond to the impact of COVID-19 using the tools of design and fabrication in ways that can bring new meaning to design education. We will discuss one example from UNC Charlotte with the invitation to other faculty to share information about working with other grassroots initiatives across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm5WwYddyk&feature=youtu.be

The spatial territories and social networks within which Latinx immigrant populations live and wo... more The spatial territories and social networks within which Latinx immigrant populations live and work in the South offers robust opportunities to explore new hybrid models of spatial practices and identities. By contrast, long established Latino neighborhoods such as those in Boyle Heights or East Los Angeles, which are what James Rojas has called “enacted landscapes”, now feel the pressures of gentrification—pressures that threaten previously hybridized urban spaces with mainstream homogenization. These student essays highlight “(t)he strands that interlace race, ethnicity, and place in the South” that “are being woven into something new and potentially different through Latino migration” in Charlotte, NC.

Recent story on our urban design program focused on Rio de Janeiro.

2015 Provost's Community Engagement Award

At the Provost Awards Reception on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, José Gámez, Associate Professor in ... more At the Provost Awards Reception on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, José Gámez, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, was presented with the 2015 Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement.

José Gámez and Janni Sorensen. “No More Waiting for Superman: Teaching DIY Urbanism and Reflexive Practice,” in the Journal of Urbanism: DIY Urbanism. 2014. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549175.2014.909516#.U2v17ej9pY4

José Gámez. “Artist Communique: Interview with Ramón Ramírez” forthcoming in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Volume 38, Number 2: 239-250 (fall 2013

José Gámez and Janni Sorensen. Windy Ridge Case Study: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Report (2011). Published online on the peer-reviewed website Community Engaged Scholarship for Health; published August 29, 2013

A Pair of Queens: Latina/o Landscapes in LA and the QC” in Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment edited by David R. Diaz (New York: New York University Press, 2012).

Mapping East Los Angeles: Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in an Other LA” in Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, edited by Douglas S. Kelbaugh and Kit McCullough (London: Routledge, 2008).

Mapping Studies of Las Vegas

Books by Jose Gamez

Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and the Built Environment, 2019

Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding... more Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities in Latin America and beyond. Complex dynamics of urbanization such as mega-event-driven development, infrastructure investment, and informal urban expansion are intertwined with changing climatic conditions that demand new approaches to sustainable urbanism. The urban conditions facing 21st century cities such as Rio emphasize the need to revisit urban forms, reintegrate infrastructure, and re-evaluate practices.

With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book’s three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.

Conference Presentations by Jose Gamez

#OPERATION: How Makers Respond to a Pandemic

ACSA Website, 2021

Over the last few weeks, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture school faculty and st... more Over the last few weeks, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture school faculty and students from across the globe have been putting their skills to work creating masks and face shields to help support #OperationPPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and the #MillionMaskChallenge. Partnerships have formed, and continue to form, rapidly to respond to the growing need for protective gear.

In the Pivot to Online Learning discussion on April 3, entitled “Schools Respond to a Pandemic”, José Gámez, a Professor of Architecture at UNCC, invited his colleagues to talk about the quick partnerships formed with local makers and hospitals to complete the production of now over 30,000 face shields for a local hospital. After the discussion, we reached out to Alex Cabrel, Director of Fabrication at UNCC, who told us more about the creation of CharlotteMEDI (more information below). This program helped create the aforementioned face shields and they were able to use injection molding to produce headbands more efficiently. Across the nation, from Alvin Huang at USC to Jenny Sabin at Cornell, professors are also organizing massive collaborative efforts to support this need.

Abstract The spatial territories and social networks within which Latinx immigrant populations ... more Abstract

The spatial territories and social networks within which Latinx immigrant populations live and work in the South offers robust opportunities to explore new hybrid models of spatial practices and identities. By contrast, long established Latino neighborhoods such as those in Boyle Heights or East Los Angeles, which are what James Rojas has called “enacted landscapes”, now feel the pressures of gentrification—pressures that threaten previously hybridized urban spaces with mainstream homogenization. These student essays highlight “(t)he strands that interlace race, ethnicity, and place in the South” and in the west that “are being woven into something new and potentially different through Latino migration” in Charlotte, NC.

Drafts by Jose Gamez

Bahamas Housing Collaboration

In case you missed this, WSOC interviewed Summer Anderson (one of my students from the fall and s... more In case you missed this, WSOC interviewed Summer Anderson (one of my students from the fall and spring) about the work that we are doing with U Bahamas, FAMU and One Eleuthera Foundation. A few minor details got mixed up in the story but overall it seems pretty good.
It doesn't look like they're posted the story on their website yet but it came up in the UNCC media mentions report this morning: https://app2.cision.com/

Our story starts up just after the Greg Olsen story finishes.

We are working on an edited companion to this studio portfolio, which should be out sometime in l... more We are working on an edited companion to this studio portfolio, which should be out sometime in late 2019. This studio book is nearly complete but here is a preview.

Talks by Jose Gamez

Latin American Coalition Ribbon Cutting

Our work with the LAC is about to take another big step!