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230. Sarah Whiting

Scratching the Surface

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The Role of Architecture and Design in a World That Taunts Us With Its Promise

I want to read something that you wrote in your welcome letter when you became the Dean back in this was dated July 1st 2019. You write and I quote, our days and semesters are filled with indispensable tools that live under headings like research, history, theory, policy and technology. These tools shape and rattle our respective pursuits across the field of design. And more ambitiously allow us to assert an elastic constellation signaling our greater ambitions as citizens in a world that has never needed us more. A world that taunts us with its promise even as it shows us its jagged edges.

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