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