Lunch 15: Thick

Ben Small is a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he teaches in the undergraduate and graduate studio sequence. Ben received his M.Arch from UVA in 2021, graduating with the Alpha Rho Chi Award. Colleen Brennan is a landscape designer with Surface 678. She received her Master of Landscape Architecture from UVA in 2021, along with the Research Excellence Award for her thesis project In the Margins of Enclosures: Producing Knowledge and Space in the Post-Plantation Landscape. Leah A. Kahler is a landscape designer at Reed Hilderbrand and adjunct professor at the Boston Architectural College. Leah holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from UVA and Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and the Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College. She delights in justice-oriented storytelling in, through, and of, landscape. Her current research explores the possibilities of an abolition ecology through speculative fictions. Other contributors Alissa Ujie Diamond Erin Besler & Ian Besler Chloe Nagraj Jonah Pruitt Nastassja Swift Shannon Mattern Bjorn Sparrman Ila Berman Julie Larsen & Roger Hubeli Kevan Klosterwill Brian Davis Katie LaRose Charles Weak Matthew Wilson Vic Mantha-Blythe & Brynn Day Garnette Cadogan & Elgin Cleckley Thaisa Way Hannah Jane Brown Samantha K. Sigmon Aroussiak Gabrielian & Alison Hirsch.