Join Elizabeth Hudson, Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design, Dan Adams, Director of the School of Architecture, Sara Jensen Carr, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and Kristian Kloeckl, Associate Professor of Art+Design, for a conversation on how design and architecture contribute to issues such as the future of work, human health, urban ecology and how this discussion has re-ignited and changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Affiliated Faculty Speakers:

Dan AdamsDan Adams is Director and Associate Professor of the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Dan teaches design studios and seminars, in both the architecture and sustainable urban environments programs. These courses focus on negotiating architectural design with environmental context, with specific focus on integrating infrastructural systems in cities. Dan coordinates the fourth-year undergraduate urbanism studio for both architecture and landscape architecture students. This studio investigates the design of urban frameworks for integrating landscape and infrastructure systems into multiple scales of the built environment, from region scale networks to the architectural detail.

 

 

Sara Jensen CarrSara Jensen Carr is an assistant professor of architecture and the program director for the Master of Design in Sustainable Urban Environments program at Northeastern University. She is a licensed architect and holds an MArch from Tulane University, and an MLA and PhD in Environmental Planning from University of California, Berkeley. Her work and research on the connections between urban landscape, human health, and social equity has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, Graham Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In addition, she has been published in outlets from Preventive Medicine to LA+ Journal, as well as interviewed by the New York Times, CNN, and Foreign Policy, among others, for her expertise on epidemics and urban design.

 

The event will take place, Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET. To register, click here.

 

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