Sheila Kennedy will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 10, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the spring lecture series in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and in partnership with the University of Arkansas Libraries.

Kennedy, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), is an American architect, innovator and educator. She is a professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. (KVA), with her partner Frano Violich, FAIA, in Boston, Massachusetts.

In her lecture, “Collective Energies: Architecture for a Shared Social and Ecological Commons,” Kennedy will ask if and how architecture might offer spaces, strategies and respite from the current culture of divisiveness.

Kennedy will present a set of architectural works that are designed to support a shared social and ecological commons. Projects included in the lecture are collective spaces for interdisciplinary research in university buildings, public spaces that engage and integrate the forces of nature, and residential mass timber buildings constructed with wood that is community supported and locally sourced from forest lands.

This lecture is open to the public. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, visit:  https://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/lectures/2024-2025/sheila-kennedy.php