Access to information is rapidly becoming a global standard for the first time in history. This super-connected network of minds is accelerating the speed of human innovation. Nevertheless, changing environmental conditions are reaching a crisis point, and even large scale responses can take years to have any effect. The decisions we make now will have lasting repercussions. How do we respond?

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SPEAKER

EVENT

SOCIAL MIXER

APRIL 7TH

KRISTINA HILL

Design for Something Completely Different
LA 279 | 12:00 PM

SEAN LALLY

Let’s Touch
LA 115 | 6:00 PM

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UNSETTLED

An Inquiry into the Conditions of Spaces
LA 206 | 7:00 PM

DINNER GATHERING

Catered by Falling Sky
Willcox Hearth | 8:00 PM

APRIL 8TH

MICHAEL FOX

Architectural Intelligence
LA 206 | 12:00 PM

SEAN AHLQUIST

Sensorial Architecture
LA 177 | 4:30 PM

BLAINE BROWNELL

Hypernatural
LA 177 | 5:40 PM

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(re)DISCIPLINED

Rethinking Design Education
LA 206 | 7:00 PM

DINNER GATHERING

Catered by Falling Sky Brewing
Willcox Hearth | 8:00 PM

APRIL 9TH

JULIE HAACK WORKSHOP

Disrupting Color
LA 206 | 9:30 AM

FRANCOIS ROCHE

mythomaniaS
LA 115 | 12:30 PM

ADAM YARINSKY

Adapting NYC for Climate Change
LA 115 | 2:30 PM

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RESPONSE(ability)

Subverting Sustainability
LA 206 | 4:00 PM

GREAT ICE CREAM EXPERIMENT

Hosted by Ashrae
LOCATION 279 | 5:00PM

JILL DESIMINI

Urban Residues
LA 115 | 6:30 PM

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METROPOLIS NOW

Technology and Identity in a New Global Urbanism
LA 206 | 7:30 PM

EVENING SOIRÉE

Catered by Falling Sky Brewing
Hayden Gallery / Courtyard | 8:30 PM

PANELS

UNSETTLED: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Spaces

Architecture acts as an interface between a human-desired habitat and the natural environment. In a building culture driven towards increasing standardization, technological advancements have changed what comfort means to us. It has adapted our surroundings, creating an unsettling division between conditioned space and the atmosphere outside it. How does the constructed atmosphere shape spatial interactions? Should design regulate our understanding of the unconditioned environment? What is the potential for architecture existing between the conditioned and unconditioned?

 

(RE)Disciplined: Rethinking Design Education

With the advancement of technology and the increasing impetus placed on inter-disciplinary collaboration, what is the future of design education? Is the current model a logical progression to the goals of sustainable design as a whole, or is there a need for a total overhaul of the education system?  What is the driving factor for the education of young designers going forward?  Are the requirements for a designer changing?  Is education as an institution fundamentally changing?

 

RESPONSE(ability): Subverting Sustainability

With the scientific community assuring us of the irreversible damage of climate change, a new path in sustainable design must be taken. Rather than relying on the established channels for change, how can we as individuals inspire change? Going forward, does the solution lie in traditional, top-down solutions or does the answer exist within the collective? How can we ensure that our responses have the ability to make lasting changes?

 

METROPOLIS NOW: Tech. and Identity in the New Global Urbanism

With every phone in every pocket, there is a constant stream of information relaying the current conditions of the space around us. How is social media changing the urban environment? What untapped potential exists in the massive scale network of sensory data that is the urban population? Now that the production and availability of data is unprecedented, how can this information find its way into the process of constructing human environments? How can this data inform design, and how does it change the way that infrastructure is conceived?

LOCATION

University of Oregon School of Architecture & Allied Arts

5249 University St, Eugene, OR

University of Oregon School of Architecture & Allied Arts