Cassim Shepard is a media producer, filmmaker, lecturer, and educator whose work focuses on cities, buildings, and urban development. His film and video work tells the stories of cities and the development of urban spaces. His documentary work has been commissioned by and screened at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Ford Foundation, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the United Nations, among others. As a lecturer and educator, Shepard is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and has also been a guest lecturer in the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and a Poiesis Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the founding editor of the journal Urban Omnibus, and published his first book, Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism, in 2017.
