Dr. Keller Easterling

Biography

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer, serving as the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor and Director of the MED Program at Yale. Her work examines innovative thought on spatial and non-spatial problems, as demonstrated in her recent book, Medium Design: Knowing Work on World (Verso, 2021). She also authored Extrastatecraft: Power Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), which explores global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Other notable publications include Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways Houses America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is a 2019 Fellow of the United States Artists in Architecture Design and the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking. Her research includes work on land activism tied to the civil rights movement and the Global South, and she has engaged in projects aimed at facilitating migration and exchange. She has exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Venice Architecture Biennale and contributed to various notable journals.

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