John Bullard is the President of the Board of the New Bedford Ocean Cluster. He retired in 2018 as Regional Administrator for NOAA Fisheries where he was responsible for the management of all living marine resources in federal waters from Maine to Cape Hatteras. John ran NOAA’s Office of Sustainable Development for the Clinton Administration in Washington after serving as Mayor of New Bedford from 1986-1992. Before that he worked for 12 years leading the effort to revitalize the waterfront historic district. John is on the Board of the Buzzards Bay Coalition, the Westport Planning Board and is a co-founder of The New Bedford Light. He has a degree from Harvard and advanced degrees from MIT.Ted Brown is a professor in the School of Architecture, Syracuse University where he has served as the graduate and undergraduate chair, and as director of the Florence programs. Brown’s collaborative design practices work within the public and private sectors addressing architecture and the city at the infrastructural, neighborhood and apparatus scales. He is a founding partner of Munly/Brown Studio, with projects that include mix-use housing, the master plan for the Salt District Neighborhood and the Childcare Campus and Catholic Chapel for Syracuse University. In collaboration with the landscape practice Julia Czerniak/CLEAR, Brown has worked on local waterfront redevelopment projects for the city of Syracuse. His work in the visual arts has ranged from “Landscape Miniatures” to mixed media stain paintings. His research includes the visualization of archeological evidence under the Basilica of San Marco, Venice in relation to early settlement patterns and sea level rise. Brown’s recent research examines ways to link the art of assembly as a material practice with assemblage theory. The forum for this work is Studio R-A (Ted Brown/Bill Brown) resulting in articles and design provocations on/of re-assemblage. “Siting re-assemblage” re-imagines landscape as an assemblage practice in the context of assemblage thinking in the visual arts, social theory and urban geography.
Brown received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse Architecture, he taught at Princeton University and the Oregon School of Design. In 1987 he received the Rome Prize in Architecture and conducted research on early representations of the city. He is a Fellow of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago where he was resident in 2018.
