Hanna Salzman (she/her)

Architecture + Design Student, University of Toronto

About Hanna Salzman

Hello! I'm a second-year architecture student at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, pursuing additional majors in Religious Studies through the Department for Religion and Jewish Studies through the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies.

My research is focused on the critical role of design in history and its relationship to contemporary applications of design for state control. I am incredibly passionate about the future of design and how new frontiers can be assessed by analyzing the past.

I am a/an:

Undergraduate Leadership & Research Scholar

University

University of Toronto

Laidlaw Cohort Year

2026

Research Topic

Design History Politics Society & Culture Technology

Area of Expertise

Arts Politics

I am from:

United States of America

I speak:

English Mandarin

My hobbies/interests are:

Cooking/Baking Cycling Design Film & TV Music

Intro Content

Proposal Arts History Politics

Alternative Language: Rewriting Historical Memory Through Design

This study will analyze how visual language has altered or manufactured collective memory for the purposes of state control through a comparison between historical propaganda techniques during World War II and contemporary design approaches with new frontiers.

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Channels contributed to:

Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Research

Rooms participated in:

University of Toronto

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