The next Hyde Lecture will feature Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman at 4 p.m. Feb. 12 via Zoom.

Cruz and Forman own and operate Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego. Their work seeks to transgress conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and merging the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy.

Cruz is a professor of public culture and urbanism in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana/San Diego border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space.

Forman is a professor of political theory and founding director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. A theorist of ethics and public culture, her work focuses on human rights at the urban scale, climate justice in cities, border ethics and equitable urbanization in the global south. She is known internationally for her revisionist research on Adam Smith, recuperating the ethical, social, spatial and public dimensions of his thought.

This presentation is part of the College of Architecture’s 2020-2021 Hyde Lecture Series featuring speakers from across disciplines that are united under the common theme of “Building Justice — Design and Planning for a Just Society.” Professions have long excluded people of color and under-served groups in both process and outcomes. To confront it, the 2020-2021 Hyde Lecture Series is bringing lecturers who believe that design and planning should be explicitly engaged with fostering a just society. Doing so is an act of hope requiring, not only an awareness of true inequity, but also a compulsion to refute it in its many forms.

The Hyde Lecture Series is a long-standing, endowed public program. Each year, the College of Architecture hosts compelling speakers in the fields of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and planning that enrich the ongoing dialog around agendas that are paramount to the design disciplines and our graduates.

For questions, email Kerry McCullough-Vondrak