PROGRAMME

DAY 1: FRIDAY 22ND APRIL, 2022


Openings

9:45 am

Dean Fritz Steiner and Chair Winka Dubbeldam
Graduate Group Chair, Franca Trubiano

 Break (5 minutes)

10:15 am

PAPER SESSION 1: TECHNOLOGY’S BOUNDARIES AND AFFORDANCES

Anwar Basunbul (University of Pennsylvania): "Climate Responsive Lessons from Hijazi Vernacular Architecture: A Study of the Interaction of Thermal Behaviors, Architecture, and Climate"

Tasneem Tariq (Pennsylvania State University): "Impact of Vegetated Infrastructure to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect in Dhaka, Bangladesh"

 

Abishek Mehrotra (Ajou University): "Quick Environmental Building Form Evaluation during Architectural Massing Study: Artificial-Intelligence (AI) Algorithms for Surrogate Building Energy Simulation"

Mandi Pretorius (Yale School of Architecture): " Questioning the Constructed Intangibilities of Water Resources in the Urban Domestic"

 

Debanjali Banerjee (University of Cincinnati): "Systematic Review and Assessment on the Urban Heat Island Effect and its Impact on Building Space Conditioning"

 

11:25am

Respondent - Erica Cochran Hameen, Carnegie Mellon University

11:40am

Q & A

 Break (30 minutes) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

12:30 pm

PAPER SESSION 2: PROJECT-MAKING - MATERIALIZING PROJECTS

Alex Blanchard (Newcastle University): "Collapsing the Computer: To Reconstruct the Architect’s Prosthesis"

Kyle Stover (University of California, Los Angeles): "Insuring Artificial Stone"

 

Virginia Melnyk (Tongji University): "Soft Knitted Tensile Membrane Tensegrity Helix-Tower"

Mohamed Ismail (MIT): "Reshaping concrete: Inclusive design for low-carbon structures"

 

Zenovia Toloudi (Dartmouth College): "Vulnerable Technoecological Walls"

 
 

1:40 pm

Respondent - Franca Trubiano, University of Pennsylvania

1:55 pm

Q & A

 

Break (5 minutes)

2:20 pm

KEYNOTE Session and Roundtable discussion: “Craft, Culture and Computing: Grounding our field in the social,” Vernelle A.A. Noel, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

DAY 2: SATURDAY 23rd APRIL, 2022


9:00 am

KEYNOTE Session: “Does Skill Make Us Human?: The Making of Urban Futures in Qatar and Beyond,” Natasha N. Iskander, New York University, Wagner School of Public Service

10:00 am

PAPER SESSION 3: THEORY’S CONTESTED TERRITORIES

Phillip M. Crosby (Temple University): "Towards an Anti-Antiutopia: Solarpunk Cities and the Precarity of Our Urban Future"

Melissa Rovner (University of California, Los Angeles): "Decolonizing Discourses of Progress: Interrogating the Conversion of Native Peoples into Domestic Laborers and Native Lands into Property during the Progressive Era"

 

Patrick Jaojoco (Princeton University): "The Missing Link: Telecommunications, Tropical Postmodernization, and the Production of Precarity in the Philippines, 1972–Present"

Aparajita Santra (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "A tale of the city of Kolkata through the eyes of the “common women"

 

Qiran Shang (University of Pennsylvania): "The Lailai Ballroom: Precarity, Resistance, and Reclamation of Urban Spaces in Shanghai’s Queer Dance Scene, 1987-2018"

 

11:10am

Respondent - Tao DuFour, Cornell University

11:25am

Q & A

 Break (15min)

12:00pm

KEYNOTE Session and Roundtable discussion: “A Ruin in Reverse,” Ana Maria Leon, University of Michigan

1:10pm

Closing