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LOUISE HARPMAN

Louise Harpman is a Professor of architecture, urban design, and sustainability at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and an associated faculty member of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is a founding director of openEARTHstudio and Global Design NYU, two design and ecology-oriented working groups within Gallatin. Through her private practice, Louise Harpman PROJECTS, she leads or joins design teams that focus on net zero energy buildings, micro unit dwellings, and urban streetscapes. Harpman is the co-author (with Scott Specht) of Coffee Lids (Princeton Architectural Press) and co-author (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim) of Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel). She is a member of the Board of Directors of Open House New York and an associate of the American Institute of Architects.

KAREN HOLMBERG

Karen Holmberg, Ph.D., teaches environmental science at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a volcanologist and archaeologist interested in the creative conveyance of environmental knowledge and narratives of deep time, prehistory, and modern science. Holmberg is the Scientific Director of WetLab, an art-science collective and curatorial laboratory. She is the Principal Investigator of a transdisciplinary project in Patagonia, working with massive coastline transformations due to glacial retreat, sea-level rise, and volcanic eruptions. She is on the Board of Directors for The Chaiten Site Museum in Chile. Her fieldwork with the Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy combines physics-based prediction of volcanic unrest and drama in a collaborative “Theatre of Urgency” to convey scientific conception of risk. She is co-director of the New York Virtual Volcano Observatory.

EUGENIA KISIN

Eugenia Kisin, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of art and society at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her research and teaching on Indigenous contemporary art foregrounds decolonization and environmental justice in the United States and Canada. Kisin’s forthcoming book, Aesthetics of Repair, considers art’s role in contexts of reparation and transitional justice. A visual anthropologist by training, she is editor of film and exhibition reviews at Visual Anthropology Review, and teaches interdisciplinary “slow looking” methods in art history and cultural anthropology. She is co-director of A Museum for Future Fossils, a transnational field school for curating and education on environmental issues in collaboration with community knowledge holders. Kisin is a co-director of WetLab, an art-science collective and curatorial laboratory.