Jamie Wang is an urban environmental humanities scholar and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is author of Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore (MIT Press, 2024), and editor at the Feminist Review. Her current writing and thinking examines sustainable urban-making, technological imaginaries, and multimodal storytelling in the context of climate change and environmental injustice.

The Lecture in Planning Series is co-organized by the Urban Planning program office and second year PhD students in Urban Planning: Vinita Govindarajan, Diana Guo, and Mauricio Rada Orellana.

Sevi̇nce Bayrak, is an Istanbul-baed architect and co-founder of SO? Architecture and Ideas. In 2023, she is the co-curated “Ghost Stories: The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture for the Türkiye Pavilion” at La Biennale di Venezia, and co-authored a book of the same title. She also published, Bir Meydan Öyküsü: Beyazıt (A Story of a Square: Beyazıt), a book adapted from her PhD dissertation about the evolution of public space in Istanbul. Sevi̇nce is currently an Associate Professor at MEF University.

The Preservation Lecture Series is organized by the MS in Historic Preservation program.