Lindsay Harkema

Lindsay Harkema is an architect, educator, founder of WIP: Work In Progress | Women In Practice, and founding member of WIP Collaborative, a shared feminist practice of independent design professionals. She is the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic in architecture at Cornell University for Fall 2023. She also teaches at The City College of New York and Barnard College, and previously at Syracuse University and The New School. Her design, research, and teaching projects engage urban architecture and the public realm at a range of scales, aiming to transform existing conditions and create opportunities for positive change. Harkema's work has been published by Metropolis, The Architect's Newspaper, Madame Architect, Cultured, Curbed, Fast Company, Citygroup, Design Philadelphia, Blank Space, Bracket Magazine, and Project Journal. Her collaborative projects are supported by the New York State Council of the Arts, The Design Trust for Public Space, and the Urban Design Forum. Harkema completed her MArch at Rice University and her undergraduate degree in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a licensed architect in New York state.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Collaborative practice
  • Urbanism
  • Designing for care, equity, social justice
  • Community engagement and co-creative practices
  • Public space design, regulation, and maintenance
  • Intersectional feminist and disability theory
  • Spaces of exception in the public realm

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Classes (Selected)

  • ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116.508 Option Studio, Fall 2023: Affirmative Architectures

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • 2023 Graham Foundation Grant for Exhibition, Spatializing Reproductive Justice with Lori Brown, Bryony Roberts, FLUFFFF Studio
  • 2023 AIANY New Perspectives Award: WIP Collaborative
  • 2022 New York State Council of the Arts Independent Projects Grant, Diya-Ti: Empowering Ukrainian Youth to be the Future Makers of their Cities, with Sasha Topolnytska
  • 2021 Design Trust for Public Space "The Restorative City" RFP Winner: The Neurodiverse City, by WIP Collaborative + Verona Carpenter Architects
  • 2020 Urban Design Forum Care for Hudson Square RFP Winner: Restorative Ground by WIP Collaborative

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • The Restorative City Convening: Designing New York City with Health at the Center, The Ford Foundation for Social Justice (2023)
  • Shared Space — Collective Practices, Art Omi (2023)
  • "WIP: Work In Progress | Women In Practice," ACSA 111th Annual Meeting, St. Louis (2023)

Publications (Selected)

  • Community and Collaborative: An Experimental, Shared Approach to Working and Rising Together by WIP Collaborative in Design Studio vol. 7, Collaborative Design and Practice: A New Future for Architecture Together, ed. Robert Fiehn, Kyle Buchanan, Mellis Haward, (London: RIBA, 2023) p. 30–39.
  • Towards a Generic Public in Inventaires/Inventories, ed. Carole Lévesque, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, (Montreal: Bureau d’étude de pratiques indisciplinées, 2021), p. 66–75.  
  • The Private Space of Collective Resistance in Bracket 4 [Takes Action] ed. Neeraj Bhatia, Mason White, (San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2020), p. 58–67. 
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