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Christo Sims Named IAS Scholar

24 Jun, 2020

Christo Sims Named IAS Scholar

Alum Christo Sims has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to join the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton!

From UCSD news article:

Associate Professor Christo Sims was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship to join the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) with The School of Social Science as one of 25 visiting researchers or “Members” this fall.

Professor Sims will be working alongside The School of Social Science’s two permanent faculty, Alondra Nelson and Didier Fassin as well as participating in a weekly seminar with the other visiting researchers and the permanent faculty in the School of Social Science. The theme for next year’s seminar is “Science and the State.”

During his tenure at the IAS, Professor Sims will be working on his current book project provisionally titled The Garden in the Machine: Architectural Politics in an Age of Climate Catastrophe. The project examines how corporations, cities, and states are materially re-configuring themselves in response to climate change. Using Silicon Valley as a case study, the project focuses on how large technology companies are turning to avant-garde ‘sustainable’ architecture as they endeavor to design workplaces for the future. Professor Sims is currently in the data gathering phase of his project and plans to spend his time at IAS analyzing his documentation and writing his book manuscript.

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