Susan Fitzgerald, a renowned architect who teaches at Dalhousie University discusses how design changes in cities help individuals adapt when life changes.

Susan Fitzgerald is an architect, interior designer and part-time Assistant Professor of Practice at Dalhousie University. She is a partner at Fowler Bauld & Mitchell Ltd. and the director of the design-build-research practice, Susan Fitzgerald Architecture. She completed her education at University College London (BSc), Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BID) and Dalhousie University (BEDS, M.Arch) where she was awarded the RAIC medal. She has been the recipient of many accolades, including the Wood Design Award; the EnRoute Air Canada Award in partnership with the RAIC; the Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome; and numerous Lieutenant Governors’ Awards including the Medal of Excellence. She was recently nominated for an Architizer A+ award and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, IIT College of Architecture for the best work in the Americas. Susan was made a fellow of the RAIC in 2015. Her Productive Urban Landscapes: Cities Cultivation Context exhibition was part of a lecture series in Canada, Cuba and the UK, focusing on the spatial relationship between cities and food, both in cultivation and consumption. Her design work has been widely exhibited and published throughout the world in the: New York Times, Globe & Mail, Canadian Architect, Azure, Wallpaper, Monocle Magazine, CBC, and many other journals, magazines, newspapers, radio programs, and blogs. Originally from the UK Susan lives in Halifax, Canada with her partner and two children.

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