ACADIA 2020

ACADIA 2020  |  DISTRIBUTED PROXIMITIES  |  October 24-30, 2020  |  Online + Global

CONFERENCE BOOKSHELF

The conference bookshelf provides additional bibliographical context to the work of the keynotes who have been invited to present at ACADIA 2020. Its intent is to offer designers and educators a resource for continuing these conversations in their practices and classrooms. For additional information about these events, see this link.

A Conversation on Ecology & Ethics
Jennifer Gabrys
Chair in Media, Culture and Environment, University of Cambridge   (link)
Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet

How to Do Things With Sensors
Molly Wright Steenson
Senior Associate Dean of Research, College of Fine Arts and Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University   (link)
Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape

Bauhaus Futures
 
A Conversation on Data & Bias
Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University   (link)
Race After Technology

Captivating Technology

People's Science
Dr. Orit Halpern
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University   (link 1)   (link 2)   (link 3)
Beautiful Data
David Benjamin
Founding Principal of The Living / Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP   (link)
Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture Between Metrics and Narratives
 
A Conversation on Automation & Agency
Elly R. Truitt
Associate Professor, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania   (link)
Medieval Robots Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Georgina Voss
Reader in Systems and Deviance, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London   (link)
Stigma and the Shaping of the Pornography Industry

Supra Systems
 
A Conversation on Culture & Access
Kate Hartman
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Digital Futures; Director, Social Body Lab - OCAD University   (link 1)   (link 2)
TED Talk

Make: Wearable Electronics
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology   (link)
TED Talk

Situated Computations

Design Computation and Restoring Craftsmanship

From Costuming and Dancing Sculptures to Architecture

The Bailey-Derek Grammar
Laura Devendorf
Assistant Professor of Information Science & ATLAS Institute Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder   (link 1)   (link 2)
SCF Keynote Talk

Craftspeople as Technical Collaborators: Lessons Learned through an Experimental Weaving Residency

Making Design Memoirs: Understanding and Honoring Difficult Experiences

Reimagining Digital Fabrication as Performance Art
 
A Conversation on Labor & Practice
Peggy Deamer
Professor Emerita, Yale School of Architecture   (link)
Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the Present

Architecture and Labor

Building in the Future
Billie Faircloth
Partner, KieranTimberlake   (link)
Plastics Now: On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material
Mollie Claypool
Director, Automated Architecture (AUAR) / Design Computation Lab, The Bartlett, UCL   (link 1)   (link 2)
Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation

This is Gaudi
 
A Conversation on Speculation & Critique
Hernán Díaz Alonso
Director/CEO, SCI-Arc   (link 1)   (link 2)
The Surreal Visions of Hernán Díaz Alonso/HDA-X
Nicholas de Monchaux
Professor and Head of Architecture, MIT   (link)
Local Code: 3659 Proposals About Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities

Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
Molly Wright Steenson
Senior Associate Dean of Research, College of Fine Arts and Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University   (link)
Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape

Bauhaus Futures
Albena Yaneva
Professor of Architectural Theory, University of Manchester, UK   (link)
Mapping Controversies in Architecture

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy

The New Architecture of Science: Learning from Graphene

Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. An Ethnography of Design
Kathy Velikov
Associate Professor, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning / Founding Partner, rvtr / President, ACADIA   (link 1)   (link 2)
Infra Eco Logi Urbanism