Mabel Wilson
Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia, NYMabel O. Wilson is an associate professor of architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation where she directs the program for Advanced Architectural Research. She recently began Studio 6Ten, an interdisciplinary practice exploring the intersections between architecture, art, media and theory. Her designs have been shown at a number of international and national venues including the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's Triennial, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Assemblage, Any Magazine, and Harvard Design Magazine have featured her articles and design projects. As part of KW:a her design for Manhattan's African Burial Ground Memorial competition was a finalist entry.
Ms. Wilson's scholarly essays have appeared in books on critical geography, cultural memory, visual culture, and architecture. She is currently working on the book Black History Made Visible that examines the social and material production of the displays, expositions, museums, and cities where black Americans, in spite of the difficulties imposed by racism, remembered their past and envisioned their future. Out of this research she is currently developing a database and interface The Visible History project that presents this scholarship to a wider audience. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia, a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, and her PhD in American Studies from New York University.