Public Programs: Fall 2024

Fall 2024 Public Programs: Artificial (and Othered) Intelligences

Psychologist Howard Gardner* famously argued that intelligence should be thought of in the plural: intelligences. Beyond the eight intelligences he identifies, architects and designers leverage many more forms of intelligences and wisdoms in their practices and ways of being: from material intelligences, Indigenous, mythological and more-than-human, just to name a few.

At a university with a history of groundbreaking development of artificial intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s 2024–25 Public Programs invites architects, scholars, designers and artists to think about intelligence in their work and the things they design as they are confronted with the many blind spots that come with innovation, and the frictions and zones of negation that emerge when a multiplicity of intelligences attempt to co-exist.

The series of lectures and workshops aims to explore how interdependent views across intelligences might best serve our futures as we ask: how do we rethink our processes as a result of evolving ideas of intelligence, and to what ends?

* Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: the theory in practice. Netherlands: Basic Books.

Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Public Programs are organized by Tuliza Sindi, Curator of Public Programs and Director of Publications, in consultation with a faculty-student committee. The 2024-25 Public Programs Committee includes: Christi Danner, Daragh Byrne, Dana Cupkova, Juney Lee, Vernelle Noel, Misri Patel and Vina Wei.

Previous Public Programs Series 

• Spring 2024 Public Programs: Resolutions