How Baseball Stadium Design Shapes Society

Title - How Baseball Stadium Design Shapes Society

Speaker -PJ Carlino, PhD, Assistant Professor of Design Studies at California State University, Sacramento

Location - Bike Dog Brewing, Broadway Location: 915 Broadway Suite 200 Sacramento, CA 95818

Details:

Public spaces do not simply reflect society, they actively organize it. As West Sacramento considers a billion-dollar baseball stadium project, we invited Dr. PJ Carlino to explain how stadium design impacts so much more than our view of the action.

This lecture traces how baseball moved from open fields to enclosed commercial ballparks, and illustrates how these new stadiums trained audiences to see themselves, and one another, as distinct social groups. Team owners used the design and arrangement of seats, from ladies’ sections to bleachers, in order to sort spectators by race, class, gender, and "respectability," all in the service of profit. In this context even something as ordinary as a chair can become a technology of power, shaping bodily behavior and social identity in public space. The grandstands promised order, comfort, and bourgeois visibility, while bleachers cultivated density, discomfort, and the stigma of rowdiness. 

After this lecture you won't look at stadiums, theaters, classrooms, or other public interiors in quite the same way. You'll see them for what they are: lively, sometimes surprising spaces that help shape our social world, our sense of belonging, and the lines that divide us.

PJ Carlino, PhD., is Assistant Professor of Design Studies at California State University, Sacramento. His teaching and research explore how everyday objects, especially furniture, help shape the way people move, gather, work, and see one another in public space. Focusing on nineteenth-century American interiors such as schools, offices, theaters, trains, and ballparks, he shows how design can quietly organize social life. This lecture comes from his broader research on commercial furniture and the design of modern public experience. 

Bike Dog is located at 915 Broadway Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95818. They serve a wide selection of beers and guests can order food from Selland's Cafe next door using QR codes on the tables.

All Common Knowledge events are 21+

Schedule:

6pm - Doors Open - grab a drink and mingle. We'll have trivia questions on the screen and some surprises

6:50pm - Program begins with an intro & prize giveaway

7pm - Lecture begins

7:45pm - Q&A

8pm - Mingle, discuss the lecture, meet the speaker

9pm - You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here

What to Expect:

Common Knowledge is Sacramento's premiere bar lecture series. 

At Common Knowledge we believe that learning something new is the most rewarding and fun thing you can do. We're about bringing diverse people and ideas together to have a great time.

This event is open seating so come at 6pm to to grab a drink and a seat. Before the lecture we'll have music and trivia questions on the screen. We'll also have a fun, low pressure "side quest"  so you can win a free drink. 

The lecture will last for 45 minutes and are made for an intelligent, general audience so you don't need any science background to have a great time. After the lecture, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A and then the bar will be open for another hour to hang out, meet the speaker, and discuss the ideas you just heard.

The bar will close at 9pm.

 Parking:

There is a large parking lot in front of Bike Dog. 

Policies:

All Common Knowledge events are 21+

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