Jilly Traganou is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design. She is the editor of Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities, and author of Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation and The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan. Together with Mahmoud Keshavarz and Barbara Adams she is editor-in-chief of Design and Culture.