Christopher Kennedy
San Francisco
Christopher Kennedy is the associate director at the Urban Systems Lab at The New School and lecturer at the Parsons School of Design. As an artist and scholar, Kennedy’s research explores the social-ecological benefits of urban plant communities, multispecies thinking, and community-based approaches to environmental stewardship and environmental art. Kennedy holds a BS in environmental engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MA in Environmental Education from NYU, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Why I’m Voting for a Multispecies Future
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Plant-human Relations: How Can Art Foster Positive Perceptions of Weeds in Cities?
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We have had trouble getting people’s attention about climate change. Some climate activists glued themself to a van Gogh painting (and others). Is this helpful?
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Artists and scientists that co-create regenerative projects in cities?
Yes, please. But how? -
Parks are Critical Urban Infrastructure: The Use of Urban Green Space in New York City During COVID-19
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Enabling Access to Greenspace During the Covid-19 Pandemic—Perspectives from Five Cities
