The Spatial Edge

Thomas Fisher is the Director of the Minnesota Design Center and holds the Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design. He is a graduate of Cornell University in architecture and Case Western Reserve University in intellectual history. Previously, he served as the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine.

Recognized in 2005 as the fifth most published writer about architecture in the United States, Fisher has authored 9 books, over 50 book chapters or introductions, and more than 400 articles in professional journals and major publications. He has been named a top-25 design educator four times by Design Intelligence. He has lectured at 36 universities and over 150 professional and public meetings. Fisher has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. His newest book is Designing our Way to a Better World (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Len Kne is the Director of U-Spatial at the University of Minnesota, an internationally recognized center that supports the geospatial needs of over 2,000 researchers across 150 departments and centers. He brings extensive experience with GIS and Information Technologies in higher education, the private sector, government, and non-profit organizations to his work at U-Spatial. He is also on the faculty of the Master of Geographic Information Science program and looks forward to the day when everyone is thinking spatially.