Harriet Harriss is a New York–based architect, historian, and educator whose work champions feminist, queer, decolonial, and climate-critical approaches to design and pedagogy. A tenured professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute, and former dean of the School of Architecture, Harriss is the author and editor of numerous influential books including A Gendered Profession, Architects After Architecture, and Working at the Intersection: Architecture After the Anthropocene. Her scholarship and teaching have been widely recognized for advancing inclusive, socially engaged, and future-facing architectural practice.

Timothy Morton is a philosopher and the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. Their influential work spans literature, philosophy, ecology, and the sciences, and has reshaped the way contemporary thought engages with environmental crisis. Morton’s concept of “hyperobjects”—things so massively distributed in time and space that they defy traditional understanding—has become a cornerstone in ecological and philosophical discourse. Their writing, including Ecology Without Nature and Hyperobjects, is known for bridging critical theory and pressing ecological realities with originality and urgency.

Their conversation explores the intersections of architecture, philosophy, and ecology, questioning how design and critical theory can help us understand and respond to the challenges of living in the climate crisis.