In this season’s second episode RAIC Congress on Architecture Steering Committee member Bianca Dahlman talks with Dr. Harriet Harriss about the publication Architects After Architecture and the Climate Crisis curriculum at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Dr. Harriet Harriss
Dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, ARB, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D., PFHEA, FRSA) is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal College of Art in London. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award, a Churchill Fellowship, two Santander Fellowships, two Diawa awards, and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Art) Pioneer Award. Dean Harriss was awarded a Clore Fellowship for cultural leadership (2016-17) and elected to the European Association of Architectural Education Council in summer 2017. Dean Harriss' public consultancy roles include writing national construction curriculum for the UK government's Department for Education and international program validations and pedagogy design and development internationally. Across both academe and industry, Dean Harriss has spoken across a range of media channels (from the BBC to TEDx) on the wider issues facing the built environment, is a recognized advocate for design education and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019.
Bianca Dahlman
M. Arch Candidate, B.Env.D, B.A., LEED® AP BD+C
Bianca works for DFS Inc. Architecture and Design in the field of adaptive re-use and architectural conservation. She strives to preserve resources through honouring and celebrating existing structures. Her student design work at the University of Manitoba was recognized in 2019 by Corporate Knights’ Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders and the Canada Green Building Council’s Students Leading Sustainability Award. This work was guided by Indigenous Architect, Shawn Bailey, and Bianca’s careful application of listening and empathy. While working for Alberta Infrastructure, she promoted net zero energy and net zero carbon design and performance.
