Talk by Keller Easterling: Medium Design

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

Free and open to the public.

Designer and writer Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale, will present the talk Medium Design.

Keller Easterling is currently working on a book about land activism in the U.S. after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include Medium Design (Verso, 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005), and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of U.S. suburbia from 1934 to 1960. Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Samuel Silipo ’85 Distinguished Visitors Fund and Department of Art and Art History; College of Design and Engineering Studies (CoDES); and Fries Center for Global Studies. The event is held in conjunction with interdisciplinary artist Chris Domenick’s solo exhibition Private Figure in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery's Main Gallery. Learn more about the exhibition and related events, on display through Sunday, March 2, 2025.