How do the specific conditions of sites that shape commercial and therefore political networks across local, regional, and global scales enable or disrupt extant structures of trade and exchange, revealing the often invisible and/or ephemeral relations of wealth and power? This working group explores the vital role played by “infrastructure’s environments” in the creation, reproduction, and breakdown of political and economic systems in the past, present, and future. By mobilizing our multidisciplinary literacy of built environments we will read more clearly the social and political ramifications of the constructed “texts” among which we lead our daily lives.
Lead
- Claire Zimmerman, John M. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Christy Anderson, Art History
- Alek Bierig, Architecture
- Joseph Clarke, Art History
- Constance de Font-Réaulx, History/IHPST
- Deborah Leslie, Geography
- Mary Lou Lobsinger, Architecture
- Jason Nguyen, Architecture
- Imre Szeman, UTSC Human Geography
- Caleb Wellum, UTM Historical Studies
- Rebecca Woods, IHPST
Faculty Member Outside University of Toronto
- Dustin Valen, Architectural History, Toronto Metropolitan University
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Katerina Bong, Architecture
- Katie Filek, Architecture
- Ai Liu, Architecture
- Yingyi Mo, Architecture
- Anna Renken, Architecture
- Brian Slocum, Architecture
Graduate Student Outside University of Toronto
- Ultan Byrne, Architecture, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Toronto
- Stephane Gaessler, Art History