Setha Low, Ph.D. is a multidisciplinary artist as well as an internationally recognized expert and advocate for social justice in public space. She is the author of Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2023), an analysis of public space today, as well as the forthcoming Beach Politics (NYU Press, 2024) that examines how we are losing our shoreline to privatization and development. Her sculpture, watercolors, and monoprints address many of the same issues as her writing.
As a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Low lectures internationally and partners with the UN Habitat Global Public Space Programme in promoting public space as part of the New Urban Agenda. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from The Getty Center, National Endowment of the Humanities, the Hays-Fulbright Commission, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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