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Michael Speaks (Ph.D., Duke University) is an educator, curator, researcher and trained scenario planner. Head of the Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks is also Director of Big Soft Orange, a Dutch-American urban research group based in Rotterdam and in Los Angeles. Speaks has taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, in the architecture departments at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and has been a researcher on the Architecture Faculty at the Technological University at Delft in the Netherlands. For the year 2003-2004 Speaks is Visiting Professor of Urban Research and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Speaks has published and lectured internationally on art, architecture, urban design and scenario planning, and is a contributing editor for Architectural Record as well as an editorial advisory board member of A+U (Tokyo) for which he edits the series, Design Intelligence.
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