Field Notes Toward an Internationalist Green New Deal, from The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, is “intended to open new terrains for scholarship, organizing, contestation, and struggle in the fight for a globally just Green New Deal.” The site hosts data and visualizations on topics including deforestation, mass extinction, oil and gas reserves, international development, and global carceral infrastructure.
Weitzman School in the Media
“Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty.”
The Times calls the exhibition co-curated by Associate Professor of Fine Arts Orkan Telhan “equally thought-provoking and process driven.”
“Massive oil refinery leaks toxic chemical in the middle of Philadelphia”
Mark Alan Hughes, founding faculty director at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, weighs in on the site's future prospects.
“Point Breeze and Tioga-Nicetown: Why one Philadelphia neighborhood has surged while the other languishes”
City and Regional Planning faculty members John Landis and Domenic Vitiello offer perspective.
“UPenn's Integrated Product Design Program Offers A Language of Design”
Core77 catches up with students and faculty in the joint program from Weitzman, Wharton, and Penn Engineering.
“Vancouver artist Ken Lum awarded Gershon Iskowitz Prize at Art Gallery of Ontario”
Lum, who is Marilyn Jordan Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts, is honored for making an outstanding contribution to the visual arts in Canada.
“Rizzo, Rocky and lots of Ben Franklin: Is 2020 the year to rethink Philly’s monuments?”
WHYY excerpts “How to Build a Monument” by Paul Farber, senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space.