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Title: Social Justice in Urban Design
Abstract: As the leaders in the urban design world, engineers play an outsized role in the development of urban infrastructure, and in turn they also hold an outsized responsibility to ensure equity in the facilities they design. The education and training engineers receive, however, focuses largely on the science, mathematics, and other technical aspects that govern their work, as opposed to the social impacts of that work. In this talk we will discuss the impacts, both positive and negative, that signature works of engineering design can have in addressing social justice and equity, and discuss what engineers can do to exert positive influence on urban design.
Bio: David Corr is Clinical Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. He has broad research interests in the fields of structural engineering and infrastructure materials, and is particularly interested in how innovation in these fields drive the visual appearance, functional utility, and social impact of the built world. These interests have been a central part of the course he developed for incoming NU engineers entitled, "Structural Art," where works of engineering are examined and critiqued through their social, scientific, and symbolic importance.
TIME Friday October 7, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
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CONTACT Tierney Acott tierney.acott@northwestern.edu
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)