Computational Design Lecture Series, Spring ’22
Rethinking/Remaking
The Spring 2022 Computational Design Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture brings together researchers from both academia and industry to critically explore our discipline’s material and conceptual reconfigurations in response to computational ideas and methods across visual, material, and interactive domains.
Lectures:
Thursday March 24
5-6:15 pm | Kresge Theatre
Collateral Architecture
Jordan Geiger
Partner, Gekh; Visiting Scholar in Computational Design, CMU
Co-presented with the SoA Lecture Series
Tuesday March 29
5-6:15pm | Virtual
Software Timelines: New Research into the Origins of Today’s Architectural Software Culture
Teresa Fankhänel
Independent Curator
Registration Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KRrfJGohRSiARJBvc0c6WA
Thursday April 7th
5-6:15pm | Virtual
Mediating Form and Matter: From Control to Uncertainty and Back
Benay Gursoy
Assistant Professor, Penn State; Founder, ForMAT
Registration Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DlOmdrhKRSaGUgl0WtoXRg
Thursday April 14th
5-6:15pm | Virtual
Formulations: Practices of Design Mathematics
Andrew Witt
Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Registration Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wbeQ3IriRdKu0fpLyPFnXw
Thursday April 21st
5-6:15pm | Virtual
Reinforcement Learning for Building Construction and Design
Rodger Luo
Principal AI Research Scientist, Autodesk AI Lab
Registration Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SbyOAK6USO-vwqIw0cEPoQ
Thursday April 28th
5-6:15pm | TBC
Parameter, Material, and Function in Computational Fabrication
Chengyuan Wei
Co-founder, Morphing Program LLC
Registration Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AZgZ_p-zQnan0jOK8-tptQ
Organized by Prof. Daniel Cardoso Llach; Design and coordination assistance: Stella Shen (MSCD ’22).