Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling is a Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and director of its Master of Environmental Design program. An architect, writer, and theorist, her work interrogates infrastructure space as a medium of political and social innovation. Key themes include global development, spatial justice, and climate resilience, with projects like ATTTNT (2023–2024), a reparations-focused land trust network, and Switch (2015), a mobility framework addressing urban sprawl.

• Books: Extrastatecraft (2014), Subtraction (2014), Medium Design (2021).
• Exhibitions: Featured in the Venice Biennale (2014), Architectural League (New York), and the Rotterdam Biennale.
• Research: Explores spatial products of capitalism, decolonial landholding, and non-extractive design. Engages with HBCUs and land activists to operationalize community economies and mutualist infrastructures.

Select Articles: Contributions to Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, and e-flux, analyzing infrastructure as design and spatial counter-logics.

Teaching & Collaborations: Leads design studios on medium design and infrastructural reprogramming. Collaborated with institutions like MIT, Guggenheim, and Prada, with recent talks at the European Graduate School (2025) and MoMA (2025).