Faculty Stories

A daylong conference organized by Assistant Professor Amelyn Ng brings together artists, architects, scholars and urban planners from across the Americas.

The Category Is…, a six-week Apparel Design course, culminated in students creating wearable architectural garments for a runway-style finale.

A Sculpture course called Complicating Social Practice helped students develop critical capacities for integrating community-oriented methodologies into their practices.

Faculty members Catherine Andreozzi and Joy Ko lead a Wintersession course inspired by Jaipur’s rich handcrafting traditions. 

Martin Smick’s long-running Wintersession course invites students to consider what museums tell us about our past and how they might guide us towards a more equitable and sustainable future.

Half a century ago, Marc Harrison built a prototype for a home that would accommodate people of all ages and abilities. Now his daughter has restored it.
 

Daniel Heyman’s new Wintersession global studies course introduces students to contemporary artists using ancient techniques in the Netherlands and Germany.

A Wintersession global studies course led by Lucy Spelman and Andrea Dezsö considers the important role that artists and designers can play in environmental conservation.

The second-year teaching and research fellow shows students how the built environment can shed light on issues of race, class, gender and more.