Curriculum Vitae - details
LAND CULTURE WORKSHOP
Co-Founder (with Margot Lystra). Land Culture Workshop
We bring people together to talk about land, expanding peoples' attention to the places they inhabit and the living world that surrounds them. We do this through community conversations, creative workshops, visual collaborations, and project guidance.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
Research and Design Fellow (Staff). Minnesota Design Center
College of Design, University of Minnesota. 2024 - present
Research Affiliate. Minnesota Design Center
College of Design, University of Minnesota. 2019 - 2024
Assistant Professor in Residence in Political Ecology & Design
Rhode Island School of Design. 2017 - 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Urban Studies Foundation
University of Glasgow. January 2016 - July 2017
Scholar in Residence. Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota. Fall Semester 2015
EDUCATION
PhD, Geography. University of Minnesota, 2015
Master of Architecture. University of California - Berkeley, 2005
Bachelor of Arts. Swarthmore College, 2000
Biology and Sociology & Anthropology
BOOK
Lang U Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home.
McGill Queens University Press, 2022.
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Artist Co-op Member, Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Minneapolis. January 2024 - present.
Artist Collaborator (with Ken Bowling), Eye to Eye Program.
Fresh Eye Arts, MSS. Summer 2023.
Artist Resident, Anderson Center at Tower View
Red Wing, MN. October 2022.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS
Lang U “Submerging the City in Its Own Past”: Tracing Glasgow’s Architectures of Inhabitation.” chapter in B. Linder (ed) “Invisible Cities” and the Urban Imagination. Palgrave (2022)
Garcia Lopez G, U Lang & N Singh “Commons, Commoning & Co-Becoming: Nurturing Life-in-Common and Post-Capitalist Futures.” Introduction and Co-Editors for a Special Issue of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211051081
Strunk C & U Lang. “Gardening as more-than-urban-agriculture: Perspectives from smaller cities on urban gardening policies and practices.” Case Studies in the Environment. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001545
Lang U “Keep off the grass! New Directions for Geographies of Yards and Private Gardens.” Geography Compass. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12397
Lang U "Connective Tissues: Everyday engagements with yards." GeoHumanities. (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2018.1447388
Lang U “Yards and Everyday Life in Minneapolis”, in J. Archer, P. Sandul and K. Solomonson (eds), Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America, University of Minnesota Press. (2015) [link to book page]
Lang U “The Common Life of Yards” Urban Geography. (2014) 35(6): 852-869.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.926621
Lang U “Cultivating the Sustainable City: Urban Agriculture Policies and Gardening Projects in Minneapolis, MN,” Urban Geography. (2014) 35(4): 477-485.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.916142
Arnold J and Lang U. “Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families,” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. (2007) 28(1): 23-48.
Lang U “FoodSpace: forms for food production in the city,” Urban Agriculture Magazine, Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF). Netherlands. (2005) Dec., 37-38.
Lang, U. Antipode (2014) Review of: Harris, D. Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (2013) LINK
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Architect, Arkin Tilt Architects – Berkeley, CA (FT, 2005 – 2007)
Research Assistant & Field Assistant, Biology & Ecology - various ecosystems and continents, from labs to prairies to rainforests to alpine meadows…