_Positions
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Featuring Ana María León.Ana María León’s work traces how spatial practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching foregrounds the agency of populations under struggle and the multiple forms of bias embedded in the built environment and its histories. León is invested in collaborative approaches to learning, teaching, and writing. Attention to multiple critical positions, particularly those of historically underrepresented groups, she argues, grounds our understanding of history in the politics of coliberation. Where do you stand in the field of architecture?“_positions”is a series of conversations convened by the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design aimed at revealing the positions – temporary, relational, and self-conscious – taken by players on the field of contemporary architecture. Participating GSD faculty and invited guests are drawn from all facets of the discipline – architects, designers, historians, scholars, theorists, technologists, and those in other allied fields. The notion of relationality supersedes any fixed number of speakers. All…