Future of Technology
Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 PM–6:00 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Location
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, inspires and adapts. The presentations and panel discussions by the international roster of speakers are free and open to the public, however registration is preferred.
Future of Technology is the 3rd conference in series of events (previous conferences being Future of Design, Fall 2009 and Future of Urbanism, Winter 2010) that bring together international experts to provide insight and debate on initiatives past, present and future.
Past conference presentations and conversations can found on the Taubman College YouTube channel.
Future of Technology Speakers:
Michelle Addington
Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture
Michael Batty
Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis; Professor of Planning, The Bartlett, University College of London
Keith Besserud
AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Julian Bleecker
Co-founder, Near Future Laboratory; Designer, Technologist, Researcher, Design Strategic Projects studio, Nokia Design, Los Angeles
Andrew Borgart
Researcher, Delft University of Technology
Leah Buechley
Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the High-Low Tech research group, Media Lab, MIT
Mark Burry
Professor of Innovation, Director, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Executive architect, researcher, Temple Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Michael Cadwell
Professor and Architecture Section Head, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
Hernan Diaz-Alonso
Founder, principal, Xefirotarch
Evan Douglis
Dean, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Principal, Evan Douglis Studio
Anna Dyson
Program Director, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Director, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (C.A.S.E.); Director, MATERIALAB
Marc Fornes
Principal, THEVERYMANY™
Usman Haque
Founder, Pachube; Director, Haque Design + Research Ltd; CEO, Connected Environments Ltd.
Walter Hood
Principal, Hood Design; Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Natalie Jeremijenko
Associate professor of Visual Art, Steinhardt School, New York University
Sheila Kennedy
Principal, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.
Axel Kilian
Assistant Professor, Princeton School of Architecture
Sean Lally
Founder, WEATHERS; Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Linda Loudermilk
Founder, Linda Loudermilk and luxury eco™
Jeffrey Mackie-Mason
Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan
Liat Margolis
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto
Vernon Mays
Senior writer, Gensler; Editor-at-large, Architect Magazine
Heather Roberge
Director, Undergraduate Program of Architectural Studies, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles; Principal, Murmur
Ashley Schafer
Associate Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University; Editor and Co-founder, Praxis
Craig Scott
Principal, Iwamotoscott Architecture; Associate Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts
Eric Sheppard
Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota
Bruce Sterling
American Science Fiction Author; Professor of Internet Studies and Science Fiction at the European Graduate School
Amos Winter
Director, MIT Mobility Lab
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