Tim Cunningham, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, speaks at the Banksy Museum on culture, politics, public space, and the relevance of Banksy’s street art today. Includes wine/cheese reception. Lecture starts at 6pm and lasts until 8pm.

Tim Cunningham teaches urban design, planning, and social justice at Pratt Institute. His scholarship examines how urban infrastructure and design shape inequality and conflict. Prior to academia, he worked over a decade with the Committee on the Administration of Justice in Belfast on inequalities.

His book Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict (Routledge 2026) examines government use of urban planning and architecture to entrench racial/ethnic divisions in US/UK, with parallels between 1970s Northern Ireland and US urban renewal. Research includes archival/field work in Belfast, Miami, Washington DC, New York City.

Current research examines street art, public space, and political conflict.