Spring 2025 public programs: Artificial (and Othered) Intelligences

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is thrilled to announce its spring 2025 public programs series.

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?

All events are free and open to the public. For more details please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter.

City of Rooms: Conversations on Domesticity and the City – Tatiana Bilbao in conversation with Raymund Ryan and Stefan Gruber; William Finglass Lecture
Accompanying the Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition “Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms,” the Heinz Architectural Center and the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon Architecture are hosting a series of gallery talks on domesticity and the city.

Salon: “From the Living Room to the Commons”
Friday, January 17, 2025

Workshop: “Collage as a Collective Vision and Practice”
Saturday, January 18, 2025

 

Lecture: “Towards a New AI Architecture: Future of Practice”
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Workshop: “AI + Architecture: Gaining Control with Generative AI Models”
Friday, January 24, 2025

Lecture and workshop by George Guida, co-founder of ArchiTAG LLP and XFigura; researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Showcase: PJ Dick Innovation Fund: Round One Awardees Celebration Event
Friday, January 24, 2025

The PJ Dick Innovation Fund: Faculty Grants Program supports projects that address the school’s three pedagogical challenges: climate change, social justice and artificial intelligence. It supports the diverse work of Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s faculty in creative practice, professional practice, artistic practice, funded research, participatory design, design build, curation, scholarship, critical and digital humanities, and more.

Book launch: Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Hosted by co-editor Vernelle A. A. Noel. The book delves into the power relations between computational practices, technology infrastructures, knowledge and their reproductions of bias in design at multiple scales. It provides critical perspectives and insights on how computation intersects with architecture, design, the built environment, and society.

Lecture: “Co-creation and Design in the Age of Distributed Intelligence"
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Lecture by Sandra Manninger, associate professor at the School of Architecture + Design at the New York Institute of Technology; co-founder and director of the Architecture + Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (ARILab).

Workshop and book launch: Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023
Monday, February 24, 2025

By Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. “Ars Combinatoria: A Generative Poetics” (workshop, followed by book launch).

 

City of Rooms: Conversations on Domesticity and the City – Anna Puigjaner in conversation; William Finglass Lecture

Salon: “From the Kitchen to Collective Care”
Thursday, February 27, 2025

City of Rooms: Conversations on Domesticity and the City – Michael Maltzan in conversation; William Finglass Lecture

Salon: “From the Bedroom to Social Infrastructure”
Friday, March 14, 2025

Lecture: “(re)defining the pedigree of design”
Monday, March 17, 2025

Chatpong Chuenrudeemol, principal and founder of CHAT Architects.

Lecture: “AI / IA: Machines and Intelligent Artifacts”
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Workshop: “Datasets and Design: Exploring Bias and Creativity”
Friday, March 28, 2025

Lecture and workshop by Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, head of a multi-disciplinary practice; serves as an external expert for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; mentors PhD students at the Technical University of Munich; editor of Architecture, Futurability, and the Untimely: On the Unpredictability of the Past.

Presentations: Anderson Award Finalists Pecha Kucha
Monday, March 31, 2025

Graduate student finalists vying for the George W. Anderson, Jr. Award deliver Pecha Kucha presentations of their work in front of a live audience of their peers and reviewers. The Anderson Award recognizes graduate students who demonstrate through their work an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community.

Lecture and exhibition launch: “Critical Computation: Catechizing Craft and Paradoxes of High-Tech”
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Lecture by Misri Patel, 2023–25 Ann Kalla Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. Lecture, followed by exhibition launch.

Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s public programs are organized by Tuliza Sindi, Curator for 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 A. A. 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 Hans Vetter Memorial Lecture Fund.