Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Our December 2025 episode features Susan Drucker, who is an IGS Trustee, Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University, and a founder of the Urban Communication Foundation, and Erik Garrett, a professor of communication and rhetoric at Duquesne University and a member of the Urban Communication Foundation’s Board of Directors. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss areas of mutual interest between the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of General Semantics, and talk about topics such as language and the problems of definition, practical applications, policy and governance, city planning, architecture, postmodernism, maps and territories, the effects of technology, and the importance of human scale and organic community.
Our December 2025 episode features Susan Drucker, who is an IGS Trustee, Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University, and a founder of the Urban Communication Foundation, and Erik Garrett, a professor of communication and rhetoric at Duquesne University and a member of the Urban Communication Foundation’s Board of Directors. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss areas of mutual interest between the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of General Semantics, and talk about topics such as language and the problems of definition, practical applications, policy and governance, city planning, architecture, postmodernism, maps and territories, the effects of technology, and the importance of human scale and organic community.
