EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES Etienne Turpin is a Vice-Chancellor Fellow with the SMART Infrastructure Facility, Faculty of Engineering + Information, University of Wollongong, Australia. With the support of this postdoctoral fellowship, Etienne is currently living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he co-directs the Architecture + Adaptation: Design for Hypercomplexity research initiative. This design research platform develops hybrid research methodologies that compliment architecture and design practices as a means to both analyze the effects of climate change on the urban poor in Southeast Asian megacities and to develop community strategies anticipating these urgent eventualities. Etienne completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Prior to his work in Jakarta, Etienne taught architecture and design research at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and landscape architecture at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. He is a contributing editor of the journal SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy, and a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network.
Adam Bobbette is a landscape architect based in Hong Kong with training in philosophy and cultural studies. Prior to teaching at the University of Hong Kong, he taught the history and theory of architecture at the University of Toronto, and worked at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as a curator and researcher. He has published widely and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Graham Foundation, The Architectural Association, The San Jose Biennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Eyebeam, among other venues. Currently, his research focuses on international comparative histories and theories of civic infrastructures and the urban ecologies of contingency, care, and danger.
Meredith L. Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she entered as an A. Alfred Taubman Fellow. Her coursework and writing explore the influences of other environmentalisms on the forms and practices of architecture. She is co-director of Architecture + Adaptation, a collaborative research initiative and design pedagogy that works toward a more consequential role for architecture within and among the complex conditions of contemporary cities. Meredith received a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture and a Bachelors of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia. She is a licensed architect and co-founder of MILLIGRAM-office, a design practice and research platform based in Michigan and New York.
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