Sacred Spaces in Profane Places: An exploration of spiritual land use and community regeneration
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Abstract
In this paper, I explore new publicly and privately-funded spaces devoted in whole or in part to contemplation and which replace earlier iterations or which are situated within repurposed commercial buildings or other buildings reconfigured for a range of adaptive reuse and the construction and maintenance of which may be categorized as a form of spiritual and devotional practice.
Presenter Biography
Lorraine Lazard is a Harvard University graduate and recipient of a Mark De Wolfe Howe Fellowship in Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Anglo-American History from Harvard Law School. She has presented work and participated in symposia and conferences at Yale Law School, Harvard University, the Law and Society Association and elsewhere. Her work has been widely published in different fora including The Washington Post, The Harvard Women’s Law Journal, The Harvard International Law Journal and The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Current work and investments focus on the emergence and impact of cultural arbitrageurs in the world of contemporary art, analyses of the contemporary art market, art auction dynamics, pricing strategies and market design in the art world and the impact and consequences of asymmetric information in transactions; museum ethics and governance; the recent proliferation of commercial digital art-spaces, platforms and online fundraising infrastructures and an exploration of the shift in legal and cultural regimes governing the creation and ownership of intellectual property. She provides strategic consulting services to a range of international and domestic private and institutional clients, many in the non-profit space, with a focus on organizations whose missions include sustainable urban redevelopment, rehabilitation and stewardship.