Speaker Series: Michael Murphy with Braden Bergen

164 King Street,Charleston SC 29401

17 March, 2022

Description

CLS welcomes Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group, with interlocutor Braden Bergen, producer of "60 Minutes". This enthralling duo will focus on Murphy’s nonprofit architectural firm MASS, which believes “that architecture has a critical role to play in supporting communities to confront history, shape new narratives, collectively heal and project new possibilities for the future.”  MASS believes, in a word, that architecture can effect social change and equality because all people, no matter their station in life, deserve beautiful, healthy space. Michael will explain ways in which architecture can truly help further the fight  for social justice. Tickets are $10 for CLS Members and $15 for CLS guests.  About The Speakers: Michael Murphy is the Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collective that leverages buildings, as well as the design and construction process, to become catalysts for economic growth, social change, and justice. Since MASS's beginnings, their portfolio of work has expanded to over a dozen countries and span the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development. MASS’s work has been published in over 900 publications and awarded globally. Most recently, MASS has been recognized as the winners of the national Arts and Letters Award for 2017 and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Michael’s 2016 TED talk has reached over a million views, and was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for Peace and Justice in 2017. MASS's project, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was named the single greatest work of American architecture in the 21st century. Michael has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Michael is from Poughkeepsie, NY, and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago. Braden Bergen  is a talented documentarian and producer at "60 Minutes". She lead production of the critically acclaimed documentary, Midsummer in Newtown, and she previously worked at The Documentary Group, the independent production company behind the project.