Embracing the Concept of Theoretic Action

CriticalProductive is a platform for the production of new knowledge, co-created by improvisational thinkers and cultural workers from a variety of disciplines who are invested in the intellectual project of advancing radical ideas on arts, culture, architecture and cities. It is dedicated to disseminating experimental scholarship and creative work to a broad audience.

Our
Activities

CriticalProductive Journal

A peer-reviewed print and digital academic journal / magazine

CriticalProductive Dialogues / Events

Public symposia and events

CriticalProductive Media

An online interactive media content platform. An online interactive media content platform.

CriticalProductive Collabs

Designer collaborations, spatial installations, internships and fellowships

Editor in Chief

Milton S. F. Curry

Founder and Editor, CriticalProductive Journal; CEO of Critical Productive Holdings, Inc.; CEO of Milton Curry ProjectStudio; Professor of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).

Staff

Editorial Coordinator

Elena Bellaart

Editorial
Collective

Hansy Better Barraza

Professor Emerita, Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design; Principal, Studio Luz Architects

Adrienne Brown

Associate Professor, Department of English, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, The University of Chicago; Director, Arts + Public Life initiative, The University of Chicago

Marshall Brown

Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture; Director, Princeton Urban Imagination Center; Principal, Marshall Brown Projects

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

Professor, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine

Lily H. Chi

Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University

Teddy Cruz

Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego; Director of Urban Research, UCSD Center on Global Justice; Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman

Dana Cuff

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, cityLAB-UCLA

Fonna Forman

Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego; Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice; Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman

Peter Gilgen

Associate Professor, Department of German Studies, Cornell University; Director, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University

R. A. Judy

Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Joan Kee

Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director and Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Fernando Luiz Lara

Professor, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

Shawn L. Rickenbacker

Associate Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York Director, J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures, The City College of New York

Jason Stanley

Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair, American Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Arturo Ortiz Struck

Head, Taller Territorial de México, Mexico City

Ben Uyeda

Founder, HomeMade Modern

Amanda Williams

Artist, Chicago

Cultural Advisory
Group

Christine Y. Kim

Britton Family Curator-at-Large (North American Art), Tate Modern

Princess Alia Al-Senussi

Senior Advisor, Art Basel

Bruce Kuwabara

Founding Partner, KPMB Architects; O.C., OAA, FRAIC, AIA, RIBA. Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal

Mónica Ponce de León

Dean and Professor of Architectural Design, Princeton School of Architecture

Tracey Robertson Carter

Director, The Carter Project Foundation