Autumn 2023 Baumer Series
The Knowlton School at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the Autumn 2023 Baumer Series.
For autumn 2023, the series returns to Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium for eight in-person lectures that engage “Adapting to a Wicked World.”
How can design and planning respond to an uncertain world? In a time of crisis, conflict, and disaster looming in all corners of the planet, can design not just react to urgent problems but also reaffirm our commitment to a peaceful and just shared future? This semester, the Knowlton School invites scholars and practitioners from a variety of allied fields to discuss dynamic design in an era of shifting foundations.
Speakers
Pamela Karimi, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
September 6
Paul Lewis, LTL Architects, Princeton University
September 20
Rosetta Elkin, Pratt Institute
September 27
Jason Hackworth, University of Toronto
October 4
Iñaki Echeverria, Comisión Nacional del Agua, Gobierno de México
October 18
Frida Escobedo & Dominic Leong, Frida Escobedo Studio, Leong Leong
October 25
Sai Balakrishnan, University of California, Berkeley
November 1
Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood, AD-WO
November 15
All lectures are free and open to the public. The Baumer Series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work and to engage subjects both topical and enduring.
New Knowlton faculty
Kelsea Best
Dr. Kelsea Best will join the Knowlton School as assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning Section beginning autumn 2023 and will hold a joint appointment with the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering.
Best’s research focuses on understanding how climate change interacts with human societies and infrastructure, how people may adapt to climate change effects, and how climate adaptation measures can be designed and implemented in a just and equitable way.]
Ricardo Cardoso
Dr. Ricardo Cardoso will join the Knowlton School as an assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning Section beginning spring 2024.
Dr. Ricardo Cardoso specializes in urban theory and international development planning. His research focuses on transnational urbanism, the urban effects of oil economies, and the politics of development and change in African cities. He is currently at work on a book project entitled Luanda Unbounded: Energy Futures in the Throes of a Crude Urban Revolution.
Manuel Santana Palacios
Dr. Manuel Santana Palacios will join the Knowlton School as assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning Section beginning autumn 2023. He will also hold an appointment with the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering. Dr. Santana Palacios was awarded a Provost Scholar Assistant Professorship.
Santana Palacios is an expert in just urban transitions and transportation planning and policy. His research takes an interdisciplinary perspective to study how investments in transportation infrastructures and policy innovations impact population groups differently by race, ethnicity, and other forms of stratification that divide society.
Rachely Rotem
Beginning in the fall of 2023, Rachely Rotem, LEED AP, FAAR, will work as an associate professor of practice in the Architecture Section at the Knowlton School.
Rotem, Founding Director and studio futurist, has led MODU since its founding in 2012. The interdisciplinary studio designing architecture, urban spaces, and interiors is at the intersection of design, environmental research, and urban data. She has directed numerous projects, notably Habits and Habitats nature observatory and the Second Life initiative.
Distinguished visitors
For autumn 2023, Knowlton is pleased to announce the following visitors.
Frida Escobedo & Dominic Leong, Frida Escobedo Studio & Leong Leong
2023 Herbert Baumer Memorial Seminar
Germane Barnes, Studio Barnes
2023–24 Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor
Samiha Meem, Meem Land
2023–24 Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellow
