Professor Harriet Harriss (RIBA, PFHEA, Ph.D.) is a talented and qualified architect, as well as Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, as captured in her book Radical Pedagogies, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve, a subject she investigates in her other book, A Gendered Profession. Today Dr. Harriss is joining us for Friday Five and sharing just a few things that are inspiring in her own life.

1. Prospect Park Dog Beach

As both a dog owner and a runner, living within close proximity to a green space is essential. Brooklyn?s Prospect Park offers an especially sublime space for canines to indulge their aquatic instincts, particularly when the morning light etches their wet fur in outline. Prospect Park also interests me for other reasons. Designed by the same landscape architects as Manhattan?s Central Park ? Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ? it symbolized a visionary understanding of the need of all city residents, whatever their economic circumstances, to have free and easy access to the natural environment. From a runner?s perspective, the park offers something quite unique: the opportunity to run almost alone around a quiet (if artificial) lake at 6am on a weekend, or to join a sizable pack of other runners at 6am on a weekday by following the road that circumn...