Fall 2024 public programs: Artificial (and Othered) Intelligences

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is thrilled to announce its fall 2024 Public Programs series.

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?

All events are free and open to the public. 

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EX-CHANGE 2024 celebration and welcome back event
Every year the EX-CHANGE book and exhibition shine new light on the school’s research and pedagogy; this edition is about encountering the past. The event features remarks by the design team and a chance to pick up a copy of the book.
Friday, September 13, 2024

Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO: City of Rooms opening celebration
In City of Rooms, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO makes an immersive exhibition focused on domesticity, communal space and urban living. The exhibition will run from September 21, 2024 to June 15, 2025.
Saturday, September 21, 2024 (Carnegie Museum of Art)

Lecture and workshop: Karla Saldaña Ochoa 
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, University of Florida School of Architecture; Faculty Affiliate at the AI2 Center, the Center of Latin American Studies, and FIBER; Director of SHARE Lab.
Lecture: Thursday, September 26, 2024 / Workshop: Friday, September 27, 2024

Symposium Series: Paul Pangaro’s #NewMacy In-Person Conversations
President, American Society for Cybernetics; Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon Architecture
“We work to build new vocabularies of practice that transpose what we take for granted into actionable directions for improving lives. This starts with the radically simple question: What if things were otherwise?”
Friday, September 27, 2024; Friday, October 18, 2024; Friday, November 15, 2024

Pittsburgh Art Book Fair 
Saturday to Sunday, September 28–29, 2024 (Carnegie Museum of Art)

Activation week & new issue launch: inter•punct Week
inter•punct is a platform for ideas, theory and discourse – sometimes about architecture and sometimes at its periphery. The group was founded by students in 2011. This year’s theme is Intervention.
Monday to Friday, September 30–October 4, 2024

inter•punct Week: Forum for Student Publishing, hosted by inter•punct founding editor Talia Perry
Monday, September 30, 2024

inter•punct Week: Roundtable with inter•punct founders Matt Huber and Talia Perry
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

inter•punct Week: Intention book issue launch and inter•punct Through the Archives
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

inter•punct Week: Poster-making for a revolution workshop
Thursday, October 3, 2024

inter•punct Week: Poster installation and exhibit launch
Friday, October 4, 2024

Pittsburgh Architecture Week 
Among its many offerings, Pittsburgh Architecture Week’s lineup will invite members of the Pittsburgh architecture profession to drop by Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s mid-semester reviews.
Monday to Friday, October 7–11, 2024

Lecture: Zenna Tavares 
Co-founder and director of Basis Research Institute (basis.ai); associate research scientist and Alan Kanzer Innovation Scholar, Zuckerman Institute, Data Science Institute of Columbia University
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Conference: AIAS Northeast Quad: “DES[AI]GN: Artificial Intelligence in Architecture”
Carnegie Mellon, as the birthplace of artificial intelligence (AI) more than half a century ago, has an obligation to explore and expand its new frontiers. By highlighting the intersection of AI and architecture, the conference will delve into how AI is reshaping the design process, urban planning and construction practices, ultimately influencing the architectural renaissance of Pittsburgh and beyond.
Thursday to Sunday, October 31–November 3, 2024

Lecture and workshop: Anu Mridul
A. Mridul Architect Founder and Principal
Thursday to Friday, November 7–8, 2024

William Finglass lecture and course drop-in: Nathalie de Vries
Founding partner of MVRDV, architect and urban planner and the “DV” in MVRDV; Honorary Fellow of the AIA
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Presentations and moderated panel discussion: Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship
The Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship supports Carnegie Mellon Architecture alumni in the study of collections belonging to locales. This year, three of the Fellowship winners will present and partake in a moderated talk about how different forms of intelligences are defined in the respective locales that they visited, and what their resultant vocabularies, methods and modes of practice across those different cultures and geographies might be.
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Lecture and workshop: Ilmar Hurkxkens
Coordinator of XR Design Lab in Delft University of Technology’s Landscape Architecture Section; Head of the Geographic Design Cluster at Boskalis
Thursday to Friday, December 5–6, 2024

All events are free and open to the public. Find location details, registration and the latest information here.

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 Noel, Misri Patel and Vina Wei.

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