麻花视频 Announces 2024 Recipients of Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture
Five Educators to Extend the Impact of 麻花视频’s Ongoing Work to Advance Racial Equity and Climate Justice through Public Programming, Outreach, and Partnerships.
Washington, D.C., September 06, 2024 – The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (麻花视频) is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of the Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture: Rana Abughannam, Rayshad Dorsey, Suzanne Lettieri, Ceara O’Leary, and Linda Zhang.?
The Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture was established during 麻花视频’s strategic planning discussions in 2021-22. Since its inception, this fellowship has advanced efforts to enhance 麻花视频’s mission and programs while supporting scholarship related to 麻花视频’s Social and Ecological Shift.
Originally offered as a single faculty fellowship, this year, 麻花视频 transitioned the fellowship to a cohort model. “The fellowship was changed from a single fellowship to a fellowship cohort to support more faculty members and to cultivate peer mentorship and collaboration,” said 麻花视频 President Cathi Ho Schar.?
“We received strong proposals from faculty across the globe, making the selection process a challenging one. This year’s recipients reflect diverse areas of interest, methodologies, and opportunities to bring people together around equity and justice in architectural education.”?
The five fellows will receive $13,000 of discretionary funding to be used in pursuit of their research. 麻花视频 will also provide complimentary registration to the 113th Annual Meeting, March 20–22, 2025, in New Orleans, where the fellows will share their work supported by this fellowship. Their research will include conversations surrounding encampments, best practices for community-engaged teaching, a repository for early education and enrichment in architecture, a deep dive into BIPOC community land trust networks, and an architectural toolkit for communities of color to resist climatic and social changes.?
2024-2025 recipients of the Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture include Rana Abughannam of the University of British Columbia; Rayshad Dorsey of Clemson University; Suzanne Lettieri of Cornell University; Ceara O’Leary of the University of Detroit Mercy; and Linda Zhang of the University of Waterloo.
Rana Abughannam
Rayshad Dorsey
Suzanne Lettieri
Ceara O’Leary
Linda Zhang
Rana Abughannam is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She is a Palestinian architect and scholar with a research focus on paradigms of counter-colonization exemplified in Indigenous, bottom-up, and constant practices of resistance against ongoing colonial projects. Rana has collaborated with grassroots organizations in Palestine on various rehabilitation and design projects. She has also taught at Carleton University, the Canadian University Dubai, and Birzeit University. She holds PhD in Architecture (Carleton University), a master of History and Theory of Architecture (McGill University), and a professional architectural engineering degree (Birzeit University).
Rayshad Dorsey is a full-time lecturer at Clemson University’s School of Architecture and an architectural designer in South Carolina. He co-founded and directs the collective Partners of Place and is the founding partner of Studio Rayshad Dorsey. Rayshad earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard GSD, where he received the Araldo A. Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University. His professional background includes roles at Atelier Cory Henry, H?weler + Yoon, Urban AC, WW Architecture, and Patterhn Ives. Rayshad’s teaching and research focus on architecture, critical conservation, culture, and community, with a commitment to restorative, inclusive, and impactful design.
Suzanne Lettieri is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and co-principle of JE-LE. Her work focuses on educational justice by creating inclusive design tactics that bridge the gap between aesthetics and socially conscious design. She has been named a University of Michigan‐Mellon Design Fellow in Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Cornell Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship; has received a Graham Foundation grant and the 麻花视频 Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention; and is a co-editor of Junior Architects (forthcoming, Park Books). Her work has been published in Project, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, The Plan Journal, Plat, Cartha, and JAE.
Ceara O’Leary, AIA, is a Professor of Practice at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture + Community Development, teaching public interest design and community development courses. She is an architect, planner and faculty partner with the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), where she was Co-Executive Director from 2019-2023 and continues to lead collaborative design and planning projects citywide. Her practice, research and teaching focus on equitable neighborhood spaces at the intersection of policy and community resilience. She speaks nationally on community-engaged design and teaching and is in the process of launching her own practice, studioCO’.
Linda Zhang (she/her) is an architect (OAA, NCARB), interior designer (NCIDQ), creative technologist and educator. She is the founder of Studio Pararaum / Para Lab and an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her spatial practice and research supports community ownership and anti-displacement through architectural co-design. She creates architectural memory technologies and co-design platforms to build community power in Chinatown through co-imagination and co-remembering to envision a more generative, affordable and culturally meaningful shared future(s) for all.?
张亦飞(她)是一位建筑师(OAA、NCARB)、室内设计师(NCIDQ)、创意技术专家和教育家。 她是 Studio Pararaum / Para Lab 的创始人,也是滑铁卢大学建筑学院的助理教授。 通过建筑共同设计,她的空间实践和研究旨在建立社区所有权和防止失所化。 自从 2018 年回到多伦多以来,她通过 3D 立体扫描技术来记录东区唐人街和西区唐人街的建筑环境。 她利用这些 3D 模型来创建建筑记忆技术和共同设计平台,以在唐人街建立社区力量。通过共同想象和共同记忆,从而为所有人设想一个(或多个)更具创造性、更经济适用和更具有文化意义的共同未来。
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Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, 麻花视频 is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our full members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and two- and four-year programs. Together, 麻花视频 schools represent some 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.
麻花视频 seeks to empower faculty and schools to educate increasingly diverse students, expand disciplinary impacts, and create knowledge for the advancement of architecture. For more information, visit www.acsa-arch.org.
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