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DIEGO FERRARI
DAN ADAMS + MARIE LAW ADAMS
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Diego Ferrari is an artist and photographer based in London. His recent work takes a fine art approach to street photography and the visualization of urban life. His work interrogates the relationship between social values and public spaces, with a particular interest in the relationship between the body and its environment, articulating modes of individual and collective experiences and social relations. He studied Fine Art in Barcelona, completed a Fine Art BA at Goldsmiths, University of London and was awarded an MA in Art & Architecture at the University of Canterbury. He teaches the course on “Photography, Art, and Architecture” at Central Saint Martins and on the BA in Photography at Kingston University. Diego is also co-organizer of the annual Urban Encounters conference at Tate Britain, and a director of the Urban Photographers’ Association (UPA).
Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams founded Somerville-based Landing Studio in 2005. Their work negotiates the intersection of industrial systems and the city through the design of shared industrial and public access landscapes, light installations, demolition projects, festivals, exhibitions, tours, and industrial operations. Dan Adams is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s School of Architecture, and Marie Law Adams is a Lecturer in Urban Design at MIT.
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GET SOCIAL! A DESIGNER’S GUIDE TO SOCIAL MEDIA I N T E R V I E W : S P E A K I N G H E R O I C A L LY Mark Pasnik, AIA is a founding principal of over,under, a director of the Nina Chase is the Senior Project Manager at Riverlife in Pittsburgh. Formerly of Sasaki in Boston, Nina works at the intersection of landscape pinkcomma gallery, and a professor of architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He was educated at Cornell University and the Harvard architecture and urban design. Her projects, including the award University Graduate School of Design. In 2013, he was appointed to the winning pop-up park, The Lawn on D, advocate for public spaces and placemaking initiatives as drivers for urban transformation. Nina was an Boston Art Commission, elected to the executive board of the Boston Society of Architects, and selected for the AIA Young Architects Award. Adjunct Lecturer at Northeastern University and currently sits on the With Michael Kubo and Chris Grimley, he authored Heroic: Concrete board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Architecture and the New Boston, published by The Monacelli Press in 2015.
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