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Richard Fadok

@slaydok.bsky.social

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Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Assistant professor at RIT. For more: https://www.richardfadok.com

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Nov 10

Howdy to my new followers. I'm an anthropologist studying the environmental politics of architecture in the US. Lately my fieldwork has been with bird-safe designers, and I have started a bird-window collision monitoring program at UR. Read my most recent article below to get a sense for what I do.

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Aug 13

My open access article on teaching more-than-human urbanism through design anthropology is now published and free to read!

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The Multispecies Metropolis: Anthropological Ruminations on Bestial Urbanism

Author(s): Fadok, Richard Alexander | Abstract: Human-animal co-habitation is a fact of urban existence, yet animals are illegible in the contemporary American city. As climate change, development, an...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · 27d

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · Aug 19

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

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Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com · Sep 8

my first full youtube video is out now - all about critique! i hope you find it useful and i would greatly appreciate you sharing it to help me kick off my new YT channel. thank you! #art #design #critique

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Let's Talk About Critique - How To Be A Design Student

YouTube video by Mitch Goldstein

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Sep 3

We’re so back 🤘

Warning after killer whales seen ‘ramming’ boats in two attacks off coast of Spain

Rescuers were alerted to the attacks in the waters of Galicia

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yesterday, I expanded and relaunched our bird-window collision initiative as Smash the Crash ROC, beginning with a formal building monitoring study of downtown Rochester. In just 1 day, we’ve already documented 4 fatalities.

To learn how you can help, go to www.smashthecrashROC.com.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Aug 26

You know me well! I added it to my reading list earlier 😅

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Jul 26

In our July newsletter:

From @timothyaschuler.bsky.social: Hantz Woodlands in Detroit offers an example of what we lose when private gain trumps public interest.

And @slaydok.bsky.social talks w/ @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & Joyce Hwang about designing for and with animals.

+ more Places news!

July 2025 Newsletter: Public goods underpin democracy

Plus, more of the latest longform public scholarship from Places Journal. Sign up today. It's free!

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you! Places Journal was a *joy* to work with.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Jul 17

“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang

IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:

Animal Architecture: In Conversation

An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

As part of our In Conversation series, anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social spoke with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about their visions for a discipline that regards nonhuman animals as subjects of human design — and sometimes vice versa. 🦊

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?

Animal Architecture: In Conversation

An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Jul 16

My conversation with @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and Joyce Hwang about animal architecture is now out in @placesjournal.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to chat with these two 🤩

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

In “Animal Architecture,” anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social speaks with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

What if the boundaries of architecture are actually much more porous than we think?

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Jun 26

I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share!

www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm excited to share good news: I'll be starting as an assistant professor of anthropology at @rittigers.bsky.social in the fall. What a privilege to be able to think about how we design in the Anthropocene at a university dedicated to socially conscious and environmentally sustainable technology.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · May 16

What an amazing event! Thank you, @laurajmartin.bsky.social, for organizing!

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · May 5

Happening today!

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 25

Holly Greenberg and Mizin Shin will be running an eco-art workshop on Monday, May 5th, from 1-4 PM at the U of R. Come make bird art and learn about window collisions and how to prevent them. It's open to everyone in the Rochester area (and beyond). After the workshop, I'll moderate a public Q&A.

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · May 4

Free arts workshop tomorrow at UR from 1-4 PM in the Rettner Hall atrium! Soft sculpture and prints of birds, plus a Q&A afterwards with the artists. Message me for details. No registration or prior experience is required.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · May 2

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center.

We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

And that’s a wrap(tor)

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks to support from the Genesee Valley Audubon Society and CollidEscape, these will soon be printed on films and installed on the windows of the Sage Art Center—a building known by occupants to be a long-time bird killer.

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

…and the rest of it.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

…and some more…

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

Here’s some of the art…

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

Mizin Shin and I installed our exhibition on bird-safe design this week. Over the past semester, students in her class Expanded Print Media created artworks that could deter bird-window collisions if printed onto windows. Scale models are on display in the hallway gallery of Rush Rhees Library.

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Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 26

Happening today! Come to Braddock Bay Park to meet some raptors and learn about collisions.

Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social · Apr 23

🦅 Rochester friends 🦅: I'll be giving a talk on bird-window collisions at Braddock Bay Raptor Research's Birds of Prey Days event this Saturday. I'm on at 3 PM. It will be held at the Braddock Bay Park.

Registration:

www.bbrr.org/events/smash...

Full Schedule:

www.bbrr.org/bird-of-prey...

Smash the Crash! | Braddock Bay Raptor Research