TONI GRIFFIN
THE JUST CITY LAB, HARVARD GSD
Design and the Just City
M 28 September 2020 | 7:00pm ET | Zoom Webinar
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
The 2020 Fall Lecture Series begins on Monday 28 September at 7:00pm as we welcome Toni Griffin for her talk “Design and the Just City.”
DESIGN AND THE JUST CITY Can design have a meaningful impact on social and spatial justice in cities, and why justice is not the same as equity.
TONI GRIFFIN is Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Director of the Just City Lab. She is also the founder of urbanAC (Urban American City), based in New York. Through the practice, Griffin served as Project Director for the long range planning initiative of the Detroit Work Project, and in 2013 completed and released Detroit Future City, a comprehensive citywide framework plan for urban transformation. Most recent clients include working with the cities of St. Louis, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh. She began her career as an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in Chicago, where she became an Associate Partner involved in architecture and urban design projects in London and Chicago. Griffin received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she also taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor between 2006-2011. In 2014, Griffin was the Visiting Associate Professor and Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning, in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.
The Fall 2020 Lecture Series focuses attention on architecture and activism, and the role that architecture can have towards social equity and spatial justice. Due to the current global health crisis and university policy, the Fall 2020 Lecture Series will be held in a virtual format for all visits.
The events are free and open to all. Advance registration is not required, simply join the Zoom webinar on the appropriate date and time.