Bethany Gordon
Bethany Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department.
The PLACE(E) Lab is a research group rooted in Civil and Environmental engineering that seeks to expand designer knowledge and capabilities to practice equitable decision making for large-scale infrastructure systems. We analyze the power available to frontline communities in climate adaptation decision-making processes by ‘reversing the gaze’. To ‘reverse the gaze’ is to examine the ways in which professional designers and decision-makers need to adjust practices and policies to allow for impact from the lived experiences and cultural knowledge of frontline designers.