
Bart Orr
Bart Orr is a PhD candidate in Public and Urban Policy at the New School. His dissertation focuses on climate change and the politics of planning and designing resilient urban futures.
Bart Orr is a PhD candidate in Public and Urban Policy at the New School. His work focuses on climate change and the politics of planning and designing resilient urban futures.
At GIDEST, Bart will investigate the social relations around the design and functionality of community solar micro-grids in San Juan, Puerto Rico. By understanding solar micro-grid projects in Puerto Rico as part of a larger experiment in producing resilient subjects as well as infrastructure, his work aims to situate current projects within the longer history of future-making on the island.
While at the New School, he has been a member of the Urban Systems Lab as well as the Global Urban Futures project. His work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx-SRN). He has presented work at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting, Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE), and at Habitat III.