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.
Leads
- Ultan Byrne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Daniels Faculty
- Katie Filek, PhD Candidate, Daniels Faculty
- Yara Saqfalhait, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
- Claire Zimmerman, John M. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Alek Bierig, Assistant Professor, Daniels Faculty
- Jason Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Daniels Faculty
- Joseph Clarke, Associate Professor, Art History
- Christy Anderson, Professor, Art History
- Deborah Leslie, Professor, Geography and Planning
- Daniel Guadagnolo, Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology UTM
- Simon Rabyniuk, Lecturer, Daniels Faculty
Faculty Member Outside University of Toronto
- Patricia Burke Wood, Professor, Faculty of Environment and Urban Change, York University
- Mark Hayward, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University
- Dustin Valen, Assistant Professor, TMU
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Ameen Ahmed, PhD Student, Daniels Faculty
- Katerina Bong, PhD Candidate, Daniels Faculty
- Ai Liu, PhD Candidate, Daniels Faculty
- Yingi Mo, PhD Candidate, Daniels Faculty
- Dalia al-Nashar, PhD Candidate, Art History
- Anna Renken, PhD Candidate, Daniels Faculty
Other
- Mary Lou Lobsinger, Professor Emerita, U of T