Public Programs: Spring 2025
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Public lecture given by Nathalie de Vries, co-founder of MVRDV on Thursday, November 14, 2024 to an enthusiastic crowd. Photo: Abraham Aldaraca of Lenz Fotos.
Spring 2025 Public Programs: Artificial (and Othered) Intelligences
This semester, we continue our inquiry into ‘intelligences’, with a focus on artificial intelligence. Architects and designers leverage several forms of intelligences and wisdoms in their practices and methods, from material intelligences, to mechanical, indigenous, mythological, and more-than-human. As wicked problems become increasingly evident, those in the discipline are required to operate once more within multidisciplinary modes of cognition, toward deriving appropriate articulations of and engagement with the most critical spatial and design questions of our time.
Carnegie Mellon’s history of groundbreaking development surrounding artificial intelligence is what grounds Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Spring 2025 Public Programs lineup, which invites architects, scholars, designers, and artists to think about evolving ideas of intelligences in their work, and their resultant tools of thinking and practice. Guests are asked to confront both the opportunities and blind spots that come with innovation, and the frictions that arise when a multiplicity of intelligences attempt to co-exist within conditions of precarity.
The upcoming public lectures and workshops aim to explore how interdependent views across intelligences might best serve our complex futures as we ask: how should we be rethinking our processes alongside the multiplicity of intelligences that are needed to address global challenges, and where/how can Artificial Intelligence be most ideally positioned?
Spring 2025 Program
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.
Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Public Programs series is generously sponsored by the Alan H. Rider Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Architecture Fund, the William Finglass Practice Lecture Series Fund, and the Vetter Memorial Lecture Fund.