HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)
Thu, Feb 21 '196:30 PM – Thu, Feb 21 '198 PM
Hector
is an urban design, planning & civic arts practice led by Jae Shin and Damon Rich. We work on designs for public
places, neighborhood plans, and development regulations, trying to learn from traditions of popular education and community
organizing to build collective understanding and action.
Jae Shin
is a designer and partner at Hector. She recently served as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow at the New York City
Housing Authority (NYCHA), where she facilitated efforts to define and implement design principles for preserving and
rehabilitating New York City’s public housing. She holds degrees in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and
architecture from Princeton University. Her projects have received support from the MacDowell Colony and the National
Endowment for the Arts, and she has led design studios at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Harvard Graduate School
of Design.
Damon Rich
PP AICP LF '07 is a designer, urban planner, and partner at Hector. He previously served as planning director and chief
urban designer for the City of Newark and is the founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), an internationally
recognized nonprofit organization that uses art and design to increase meaningful civic engagement. His work has been
recognized by the MacArthur Fellowship, American Planning Association National Planning Award, the Cooper Hewitt National
Design Award, the Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the
MacDowell Colony, and the United States Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
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