ARIJIT SEN
As an architect and urban historian Arijit has spent many years exploring how our knowledge of everyday places and ordinary people can help us understand social change and strive towards a just/equitable world. Sen’s background is in architectural history, social, cultural, and behavioral analysis of the built environment, and American cultural landscape studies.
His publications explore cultural landscapes of immigrant communities. His current research examines methods to interpret cities from the bottom-up, by engaging voices and histories of marginalized urban communities. Sen has presented his work on racialized landscapes at multiple international forums including the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture and the Sawyer Seminar in the Study of Comparative Cultures at the University of Washington.
He has directed public history fieldwork in US and India. Since 2012, he has directed an action-research project that engages students and community members in a collaborative exploration of the history of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. This project has been recognized by AASLH, Wisconsin Humanities Council and the National Humanities Alliance. The field school has partnered with the Newark-based, Humanities Action Lab to contribute to an international exhibit on environmental justice.
Sen cofounded the multi-campus Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures area of doctoral research on architecture and cultural landscapes and served on the board of directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
During Spring 2021, Sen will be in residence at the Dumbarton Oaks, with a Mellon-funded Urban Landscape Studies grant that will focus on the topic of “Democracy and the Urban Landscape: Race, Identity, and Difference.” He also received a Fulbright fellowship to organize a public humanities field school in Kozhikode, India in Summer 2021.
His publications explore cultural landscapes of immigrant communities. His current research examines methods to interpret cities from the bottom-up, by engaging voices and histories of marginalized urban communities. Sen has presented his work on racialized landscapes at multiple international forums including the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture and the Sawyer Seminar in the Study of Comparative Cultures at the University of Washington.
He has directed public history fieldwork in US and India. Since 2012, he has directed an action-research project that engages students and community members in a collaborative exploration of the history of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. This project has been recognized by AASLH, Wisconsin Humanities Council and the National Humanities Alliance. The field school has partnered with the Newark-based, Humanities Action Lab to contribute to an international exhibit on environmental justice.
Sen cofounded the multi-campus Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures area of doctoral research on architecture and cultural landscapes and served on the board of directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
During Spring 2021, Sen will be in residence at the Dumbarton Oaks, with a Mellon-funded Urban Landscape Studies grant that will focus on the topic of “Democracy and the Urban Landscape: Race, Identity, and Difference.” He also received a Fulbright fellowship to organize a public humanities field school in Kozhikode, India in Summer 2021.