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Tim Cunningham serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute's School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, teaching courses including SS-277 Politics of Resistance in a Global Context and SSWI-240T Shaping the Contemporary City.
His research investigates spatial inequality through the lens of coercive urban design, revealing how infrastructure like Belfast's 'peace walls' and Miami's severed streets systematically enforce social segregation. Using walking ethnography and documentary photography, he documents how ostensibly neutral planning decisions create enduring barriers that concentrate disadvantage and undermine community connectivity, directly addressing Sustainable Development Goal #11 for Sustainable Cities and Communities.
His exhibition 'Designed to Exclude: Architecture, Urbanism, and Spatial Inequality' synthesizes this work through visual timelines, large-format photographs, interactive maps, and interview extracts that expose architecture's role as a tool of social control while proposing pathways for equitable urban reconciliation.
