ANCHORAGE: November 20 (Wednesday) at the Anchorage Museum, 7pm
FAIRBANKS: November 21 (Thursday) at Goldies, 6pm
JUNEAU: November 22 (Friday) at the Hangar Ballroom, 6pm
The final POLAR SHIFT lectures will be given by Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collective with offices in Boston, Kigali, and Poughkeepsie.
As a designer, writer, and teacher, Michael Murphy’s work investigates the social and political consequences of the built world. Michael’s research and writing advocates for a new empowerment that calls on architects to consider the power relationships of their design decisions, while simultaneously searching for beauty and meaning. Since MASS’s beginnings with the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda, their portfolio of work has expanded to over a dozen countries and span the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development, and more recently, food systems, indigenous sovereignty, and the public monument.
