Social Science and Architecture
Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Taking Action
7/8/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The three-part series “Forced Labor in Supply Chains” explores the often-invisible affliction of human exploitation embedded within the extensive supply-chain networks that create the very materials for our construction endeavors....
Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Examples of a Humanely Built Environment
3/11/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The three-part series on “Forced Labor in Supply Chains,” stemming from the Design for Freedom initiative, aims to shed light on the social inequalities caused by forced labor in our...
Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Its Prevalence & the Design for Freedom Movement
12/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please join guest speaker Brigid Abraham, a Design for Freedom Project Manager at Grace Farms, for the first event in a three-part series on “Forced Labor in Our Supply Chain.”...
Toward an Architectural Education with an Awareness of Advocacy
9/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this third and final panel of the three-part Advocacy and Agency in Architecture series organized by the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee, we will explore a range of learning...
Beyond ADA: Social Connections in Aging Communities
7/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does the need for community change as we age? What does it mean to be socially connected and physically cared for in your home? How can design facilitate better...
Advocacy and Agency in Architecture: Organizational Models
5/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy
1/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is the innovation economy, and how does it shape the city? Join us for a conversation with Sharon Zukin and Alby Bocanegra on The Innovation Complex, a book exploring the forces...
Advocacy, Agency and Architecture: Evolving Beyond Participatory Design
11/16/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
Public Space Research and Design: Tracing Gender and Sexuality Inequalities
4/5/22, 5pm - 6:30pm
Zoom
Societal attitudes toward public spaces have long been plagued by binary thinking: is this space good or bad, safe or seedy, masculine or feminine? These reductionist framings often create inequalities,...
Public Space Research & Design: Gauging Security Inequities
2/8/22, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
Is it possible to design public space where everyone feels safe and secure? When public spaces are designed to intentionally enhance safety and provide a sense of security, they often...
Public Space Research Design Part I: Gauging Climate Inequities
11/18/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
As we all witness the effects of climate change on our cities, it is impossible to ignore how environmental issues perpetuate long-standing social injustice and inequality. Disproportionate tree canopies, long-neglected infrastructural repairs,...
Decolonizing Design Research: Measuring Justice
5/3/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
Webinar
“Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that explores how research can create spaces and places that reflect values of anti-racism and justice. The dominance of western design aesthetics and...
Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice
2/4/21, 5pm - 6:15pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that...
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Decolonizing Design Research: Activist Scholar
12/14/20, 5pm - 6:15pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that...
Remote Research Methods
5/27/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Design professionals have had to alter their standard...
Education of the Architect: Pushing the Boundaries
1/28/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This workshop-style program explores the boundaries of education on the human aspects of design and further investigates where these skills are acquired—in schools and in the workplace. Within architectural education,...
AI and Sensemaking: Human-Centered Design in the Age of Abundant Data
12/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
60 years in the making, artificial intelligence (AI) is now demanding our attention. Thanks to the interest and support of both the public and private sector, we interact with AI...
Cross-Committee Holiday Party
12/4/19, 6pm - 9pm
COOKFOX
The AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee celebrates 2019 with the AIANY Emerging New York Architects and AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committees at a holiday party held at COOKFOX! COOKFOX Architects...
Vote! Process and Place
11/11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Serving as a polling site is a unique use for a building, only occurring on a few days each year. Architects design polling sites indirectly, rarely knowing that a project...
Learning About Schools: Where Do Design and Research Fit In?
8/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Do you wonder how schools can be designed using research about learning outcomes? How are firms across the country using post-occupancy data to inform school projects? How is a culture...
Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture
12/11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Through shared dialogue between with poets, educators, artists, architects and activists, this participatory program will explore how identity and cultural forces can influence the process of how we design, both...
Architects as Activists Primer
11/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Traditionally, the planner and architect are seldom seen as advocates for the urban poor, especially with the ongoing competition for so-called starchitects to produce “iconic” buildings for a global market; but...
Workplace Design: Part 2 – Coworking
10/23/18, 6pm - 8pm
Knoll Contract Showroom
With the highest concentration of coworking spaces in the country, New York City is a key influencer in this rapidly evolving category. Various typologies of coworking have emerged, serving new...
Fall Film Social: Living Salk Institute
9/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee for a special documentary film screening and post-screening discussion with the filmmakers of Living Salk Institute. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,...
Lighting With People In Mind
5/21/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Preeminent lighting designers will discuss the differences between lighting for safety and for feeling, developing a vocabulary about lit space, and the surprising ways that lighting carries symbolic meaning about...
Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data
4/9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects have been tasked with integrating qualitative and quantitative data sources more frequently in the design and optimization of their work. Measures range from financial to ecological. Yet social and human environmental...