Michael Miller, chair of the JEDI Committee and Director of Undergraduate Affairs, describes the committee’s direction to achieve Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The JEDI committee at the Spitzer School of Architecture consists of students, staff, and faculty who are examining “what the diversity we’ve always celebrated actually means at our institution.” From its inception
November 4, 2021 Huda Tayob is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She is an architect and architectural historian. Her research focuses on migrant, minor and subaltern architectures, southern epistemologies and archival silences. She received an RIBA President Award for Research Commendation for her PhD, was the 2019 recipient of the SAH
October 21, 2021 Elke Krasny is Professor for Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Krasny’s scholarship addresses questions of ecological and social justice at the present historical conjuncture with a focus on caring practices in architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art.
October 18, 2021 Neera Adarkar is an architect and an urban researcher based in Mumbai. After graduating in architecture from Sir J. J. College, Mumbai University, she completed her post-graduate studies in Industrial Design at IIT, Mumbai. She has received an honorary doctorate from KU Leuven, Dept of Urbanism. She runs Adarkar Associates, a joint
September 2, 2021 Raúl Cárdenas Osuna | Contra-Discipline and Civic Muscle Architectures of Care, Fall 2021 Sciame Lecture Series Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu Raúl Cárdenas Osuna is the founder of Torolab (Tijuana, Mexico), an artist collective, workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations
October 28, 2021 Mariana Mogilevich is a historian who writes and produces public projects on the makings and meanings of urban environments. Her book *The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York* was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2020. She is editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus at the Architectural