The 2024-2026 Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellow, Iris Xiaoxue Ma, will be taking over and transforming part of the Jim Shields Gallery into a ceramic studio/workshop space during the Spring 2026 semester. Iris will use the gallery as a production space for her Fellowship show and a material resource center for all School of Architecture & Urban Planning students.
Communities of every size are facing mounting housing shortages—from overall supply constraints to the lack of affordable options. This Innovative Cities Lecture explores practical strategies for expanding housing availability through the experiences of a mid-sized Wisconsin city (La Crosse) and a small Minnesota community (Wabasha).
ULTRAMODERNE is an award-winning architecture and design firm located in Berkeley, CA. Led by co—principals Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, the office creates buildings and public spaces that are at once modern, playful, and generous.
Join the Center for Equity Practice & Planning Justice (CEPPJ) for an open house and symposium exploring how community land trusts and other emerging strategies can expand access to affordable, equitable housing.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to sequential narrative and story-making with students. At a time where bounding boxes are being drawn around faces, bodies, and buildings to extract data for AI training, how might the meta-structure of framing in comics and the graphic arts help us (literally) reframe the built environment around us? What can the format of sequential narrative lend us in troubling times?