Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: LG016 JBS Park, 69 Kingsway Avenue, JHB
RSVP: GSA Talk: Keller Easterling
Following the lecture, the conversation will continue with John Bennett as respondent.
Keller Easterling is an architect, designer, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design. She lectures and exhibits internationally and was the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking. Her MANY project, projected global commons for facilitating migration through an exchange of needs, was exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research and writing on the floor comprised one of the elements in Rem Koolhaas’s Elements exhibition for the 2014 Venice Biennale.
Easterling is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Her most recent book Medium Design (Verso, 2021) considers not only the design of things but the design of the way things go together. Another recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Other books include Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005), and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America (MIT, 1999) and Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934–1960.