Sue Mobley: Designing Dissenting Histories

The Center for Public Art and Space, in association with Monument Lab, welcomes you to join a lecture by Sue Mobley, which will explore five project approaches for centering subaltern histories through design and urban planning.

Sue Mobley is a New Orleans-based urbanist, organizer, and advocate. She is currently director of research at Monument Lab; visiting scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design; and a member of the New Orleans City Planning Commission. Mobley was co-director of Paper Monuments, a public art and public history project that invited residents to imagine new monuments for New Orleans. She is the author of Human Rights, Human Wrongs, Observation of Human Rights Law and Norms in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, a contributor to Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity, and a contributor to Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.

This virtual lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is now open.

If you require any accessibility accommodation, such as live captioning, audio description, or a sign language interpreter, please email news@design.upenn.edu to let us know what you need. Please note, we require at least 48 hours’ notice. If you register within 48 hours of this event, we won’t be able to secure the appropriate accommodations.