Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics

Kai Wood Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers co-direct Afield, a design research practice bringing comparative interdisciplinary perspectives to contemporary social issues. Mah is a design historian, licensed architect in Québec, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Laurentian University; his architectural practice is interdisciplinary and grounded in site-specific investigations employing archives, fieldwork, social science methodologies, and research-creation. Rivers is a political scientist, currently Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rivers' scholarship is presented in the book Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa, as well as in peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, and magazines.