Joining University of Oregon College of Design

The University of Oregon College of Design is excited to announce five new fellows for the Design for Spatial Justice Initiative (DSJI) for the 2021–22 academic year. Please join us in welcoming the new cohort of visiting faculty fellows in Design for Spatial Justice (scroll down for the fellows' bios):

• Sami Chohan, the Stott professor in the Department of Interior Architecture

• Robert Clarke, the Wilson Smith Visiting Faculty Fellow

• Elisandra Garcia

• Junichi Satoh

• Jean Yang

The School of Architecture & Environment (SAE) established the Design for Spatial Justice Initiative fellowship program in 2019 to support visiting faculty who engage communities, within and outside of the UO, in their research and teaching, and whose scholarship at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, and economic inequality is enriched by their lived experience. The initiative is unique in that it connects the lived experience of faculty to their capacity to bring expanded questions and expertise to design education, demonstrating the critical inseparability of identity and experience.