Chris Reed

While running STOSS and its projects, Chris is also a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His commitment to teaching is not only a way to develop the next generation of landscape architects, but also keeps STOSS on a constant quest for new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, which has helped put the firm at the forefront of the profession.

Within our current context of crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social-racial-ethnic reckoning—DESIGN PUBLICS asks: Who and what do we design for? In his lecture, Chris invokes multiple peoples, cultures, and societies that we design with and for—especially recognizing and including those who have been marginalized in the past. But DESIGN PUBLICS also includes that which is shared—our common earth, the land, the biosphere, non-human species, and climate. In other words, the issues that matter most in the world today can positively inform and motivate the design project—which in turn can prompt new conceptual and actualized frameworks both for the advancement of the discipline, and for the advancement of world at large. Within this frame, Chris will talk about his work at STOSS and his teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.