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HS15: Urban Natures


About

This interdisciplinary Working Group explores how natural landscapes and species are brought into urban contexts through art, architecture, design, and human life. What weedy forms of life take root in diverse urban contexts?

Open to New People

Active since: 2022

  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

Collaborative Goals

We seek to build collaborative conversations across campuses and disciplines. This has involved:

  1. Informal lunches and networking meetings where we share work in progress;
  2. Attending lectures and events related to the interests of the group;
  3. And in AY25-26 we will work to organize more public-facing events hosting visiting scholars.

Group Organizers

Chloe Ahmann

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Cornell University

Esra Akcan

Professor; Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, Department of Architecture, Cornell University

Richard Fadok

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology

Romita Ray

Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University

Timur Hammond

Associate Professor of Geography, Syracuse University

Group Members

  • Margaretha Haughwout, Associate Professor, Colgate University
  • Alex Nading, Associate Professor, Cornell University
  • Berin Golonu, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo