See/Saw is curated, designed, and distributed by students at the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Arranged around themes in architectural discourse, See/Saw is biased towards the old, the latent, and the new. See/Saw, No. 2: Difference investigates consequences of the coincident loosening and tightening of architecture’s margins. As a collection of critical texts, design proposals, and built projects, this issue repositions difference as a disruptive and propulsive force situated at the center of architecture’s expanded field—ripe for staking common ground and exploring new opportunities for architectural agency and production amid social, political, and cultural influences.

Benjamin Dooley holds a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. While at the University of Maryland, he was awarded the Michael Scott DeFrance Travel Scholarship and the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence. He has worked at architecture studios in Baltimore and Washington DC, and was editor of See/Saw, No. 1, which attempts to understand architectural practice and production amid flattening disciplinary boundaries.

Nicole Starego is an undergraduate architecture student at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Presently, she works at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and is interested in cultural systems and their relation to the environment, politics, and history. Her current research considers site in regards to permanence, memory, and landscape.

Miranda Donovan is an undergraduate architecture with minors in sustainability and construction project management at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is interested in the relationship between environment and building, and currently works for Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects in Annapolis, Maryland.

Lindsey May is the interim assistant director and a professional track faculty member with the University of Maryland’s Architecture Program. She is also the principal of Studio Mayd, an architecture and design studio in Washington, DC. As the advisor of See/Saw, she draws on her experience writing, editing, and in publication production for roles and projects including: Curatorial Fellow, Architizer; The High Line Book, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Editor, Pidgin Magazine Princeton University.

Founded in 1964, the University of Maryland, College Park School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation’s (MAPP) mission is to educate architects, planners, preservationists, developers, and the many allied stakeholders whose work and scholarship focuses on the quality of the built environment and promotes social justice, cultural value, resource conservation, and economic opportunity. The faculty, students, and alumni collaboratively advance MAPP's vision and commitment through research, teaching, colloquia, writing, creative design, planning, policy formation, and professional work. The mission is historically rooted in our land grant mandate and enhanced by our regional and international activities.