Design Intelligence

The School of Architecture and Design at New York Tech and Dean Maria Perbellini are very pleased of partnering with Design Intelligence- Futures in hosting “The Leadership Summit on the Business of Design: The Future of Talent, Organizations, & Leadership.”

This event will take place October 7-8 in our New York Tech Auditorium on 16 W. 61st St., 11th-floor auditorium

Event Dates and Times

• Monday, October 7, 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 8, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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Design Series: WORLDS UN/DESIGNED: Unscripted, Atypical, Unnatural, and Uncontrolled

Conventions have insistently shaped the practices of design and architecture. Design norms – planning conventions, material classifications, graphic standards, or accepted ideas of spatial experiences – attest to the ways designers approach world-building. Design norms often reveal a reliance on typified and naturalized views of spaces, systems, bodies, materials, and built environments that invariably foreclose more inclusive and progressive paradigms for our collective futures.

The SoAD AY 24-25 lecture and event series, Worlds Un/Designed seeks to deconstruct conventions in design, architecture, and urbanism by challenging typical stereotypes in design practices, urban systems, technological dependencies, gender and abilities, conceptions of natural and unnatural, and the blurring of physical and digital environments.

Worlds Un/Designed aims to address the exclusions and limitations inscribed in our existing constructed environments by engaging with questions of ecology, urbanity, sustainability, accessibility, mobility, and inclusion. The lecture and event series will include lecture presentations, book discussions and exhibitions as subtopics of the Un/Designed theme including among others: Unscripted addressing experiential perspectives of spatial design, unconventional usage and affordances; Atypical, , addressing inclusive design for the atypical user; Unnatural interrogating the making of natural and unnatural biobased materials materials; and Uncontrolled, discussing on autonomous systems, unsupervised intelligence, and emergent forms. By critically reflecting on the effects of conventions this lecture series calls for stimulating our collective imagination towards healthier alternative future worlds, yet to be designed.