Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public

Harvard GSD

Public, as a noun or adjective, is not confined to a single discipline, practice, narrative, or theory. It is instead a complex construct that a) impacts the rules and regulations that order our cities; b) reveals the cultural, political, and economic priorities of a society; and c) establishes the faultlines of both city form and urban action, either individually or collectively, including who has the right to the city and its spaces. With this in mind, this proseminar seeks to define what…