Symposium explores how the built environment can advance social equity

Symposium explores how the built environment can advance social equity

UNIVERSTY PARK, Pa. — Penn State is hosting a virtual symposium Sept. 23-24 that will explore how architects and designers in related disciplines can gain a better understanding of the impact the built environment has on shaping society’s inequalities, how the decisions they make as design professionals have consequences, and how they can help bring about better social equity in an increasingly polarizing world.

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Alexandra Staub

With a theme of “Design Consequences: Taking responsibility for our ideas,” this Stuckeman Research Symposium is being organized by Alexandra Staub, professor of architecture and an affiliate member of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State.

 

Topic(s): Global Issues, Sustainability, Technology
Collage image of speakers at the Design Consequences symposium
Featured symposium speakers include (clockwise from top left): Antwi Akom, Rayne Laborde, Lily Song, Ife Salema Vanable, Andrea M. Matwyshyn, and Catherine D’Ignazio.