Size Up: Changing Paradigms in Social Impact Design Convened by U-M Public Design Corps, "Size Up" is a full-day experimental symposium dedicated to exploring the multiplicity of activities and inquiries conceived to yield positive change across the design disciplines. Once set against the backdrop of social transition, political reckoning, and ecological crisis, social practice progressively gained […]
The forum will bring together recipients of the 2019 Prototyping Tomorrow and the 2021 Pressing Matters research initiative grants to share their insights and provoke new ones. The format will be a lively share-out and round-table discussion surrounded by a digital showcase of the completed (Prototyping Tomorrow) and work-in-progress (Pressing Matters) projects. There will be […]
As the second annual Future of Real Estate Competition comes to a close, we invite you to be a part of the audience as our competition finalists provide their presentations on Thursday, October 20th at 5:00pm at the Blau Colloquium, Ross School of Business. Cheer on your peers as they compete for a $3,000 grand […]
Neural Architecture Symposium Keynote 2022 Guido A. Binda Lecture: Lev Manovich Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Study of Culture During the last fifteen years, a growing number of researchers in many disciplines ranging from computer science and AI to urban studies, communication, and digital humanities have started to use big data methods for the study […]
The Neural Architecture Symposium at Taubman College presents itself as an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture, and ethics of AI. This rapidly developing field of architectural inquiry is ripe for a rigorous […]
Mentorship is wonderful, rewarding, life changing, transformative, effective, gratifying, substantive, beneficial. It is also challenging, time consuming, expensive, fragmented, hard to measure, and elusive. Mentoring experiences are all unique, and grounded in the impetus to share and to connect. As a mentor or a mentee, once you’ve had a taste of mentorship, you want more. […]
Morning Sessions SESSION 1: A Ground Truth in Data Justice SESSION 2: Artificial Intelligence vs Design Intelligence Afternoon Sessions SESSION 3: Games, Art and the Ethics of Data SESSION 4: Final Roundtable U-M PARTICIPANTS Matthew Bui (School of Information) Matias del Campo (Taubman College) McLain Clutter (Taubman College) Catherine Griffiths (Taubman College) Mingyan Liu (ECE) […]
This is the first event of the W23 Architecture PhD symposium, Phygital Frameworks, open to everyone in the Taubman PhD community. Please bring an in-progress artifact of choice that represents your Phygital research, spanning the "Three I’s” of Immediacy, Immersion, and Interaction, and the reality that occurs at their convergence. Together, we will share and […]
SESSION 1: FROM A DIVIDED TO AN INCLUSIVE METROPOLIS Location: Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm, lunch included SESSION 2: CONFRONTING THE PRODUCTION OF DECLINE Location: University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, reception to immediately follow […]
What? In March 2023, the Taubman Visualization Lab (TVLab) is hosting TRADE SHOW – a one-day series of free and public lectures, workshops, installations, forums, and tech demos focusing on emergent visualization technologies and their spatial applications. Increasingly powerful, affordable, and intuitive, XR technology has seen sizable public and private sector investment from industries as […]
An Architecture Ph.D. Research Symposium The 2023 Symposium gathers Ph.D. research on the "Phygital," a term that spans the "three I’s” of immediacy, immersion, and interaction, and the reality that occurs at their convergence. Immediacy ensures the synchronous occurrence of events. Immersion determines one’s presence and experience within their environment. Interaction emphasizes the need for […]
