Shannon Mattern (PhD, New York University) Principal Faculty, Media Studies Program. Her teaching and research address relationships between media and spatial theory and practice -- particularly the links between mass media and architecture and urban planning -- and connections between media and contemporary art. She has taught at New York University, Parsons The New School for Design, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Mellon Foundation, and has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, Invisible Culture, The Senses & Society, In the Place of Sound, and Public Culture.

Courses:
Between Media and Architecture
Sound and Space
Media Space / Public Space

Publications:

Shannon Mattern | List of Publications

“Plurality in Place: Activating Public Spheres and Public Spaces in Seattle,” Invisible Culture 6 (Fall 2003) (PDF)

Urban Readings
• Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York