Marccus Hendricks on Social, Technological, and Practical Innovation in the Digital Age: Sensing, Citizen Science, and Virtual Auditing Toward Infrastructure Resilience and Justice

On 17-November, Marccus Hendricks shared his work on the Urban resilience, citizen science and civic infrastructure, as part of the 2021 Fall Urbanism Lecture Series, co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program, and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.

Marccus D. Hendricks is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and the Director of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice (SIRJ) Lab at the University of Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science and a Master of Public Health, both from Texas A&M University. To date, he has primarily worked to understand how social processes and development patterns create hazardous human-built environments, vulnerable infrastructure, and the related risks in urban stormwater management and flooding. Other work has also focused on technological risks such as fertilizer explosions, as well as cascading events such as wet-weather events that overwhelm sanitary sewers and cause contamination, household back-ups and overflows. His work emphasizes participation and action that uses methods including photography, visual inspection and environmental sampling.