*New* Evans Seminar with Bethany Gordon (4/24/24)

Posted: 4/3/2024 ()

The Evans School will be hosting a seminar with Dr. Bethany Gordon (Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW) on Wednesday, April 24th from 11:30-12:30 PM in 360 PAR. Dr. Gordon specializes in applications of behavioral science and psychology to improve design processes for a more equitable built environment. Her research also focuses on climate justice and addressing designer positionality (i.e., framing assumptions, stakeholder perspective-taking) in large-scale infrastructure design.  Dr. Gordon’s work aims to increase knowledge about how individuals or teams: 1) conceptualize collective identities in increasingly diverse spaces, 2) can overcome the environmental cues that restrict inclinations for equitable and resilient decision-making, and 3), can leverage climate adaptation to remediate past harms enacted by the built environment.