Xu Tiantian (DnA _Design and Architecture), will deliver the lecture “Into the Island” on the ecological entanglements on Meizhou Island. Introduction by Maur Dessauvage followed by response and Q&A by David Barragán.

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture and Professor in Practice at Tsinghua University School of Architecture. She received her Baccalaureate in Architecture from Tsinghua University in China, and her Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Organized by the MS in Advanced Architectural Design program as part of the AAD Arguments Lecture Series.

A lecture by GSAPP Adjunct Assistant Professor, and WXY Associate Dare Brawley. The lecture will start with a brief introduction from Adam Vosburgh, and be followed by an audience Q&A.

Dare Brawley’s work focuses on the interactions of data infrastructures, housing, and spatial politics using methods from critical urban studies and geographic information systems. She is currently a Senior Urban Analyst at WXY architecture + urban design. At Columbia GSAPP, she teaches courses on mapping and spatial research methods, and on drawing as a tool for collective decision making.

Organized by the MS in Computational Design Practices program, MSCDP Conversations with Practitioners lecture series.

Artist, researcher, and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri will deliver the lecture “Fractured Worldmaking Amid Contradiction & Crisis” on anticolonial worldmaking across non-linear temporal and spatial mediums— including 3D renderings, drone videography, photogrammetry and lidar scanning, 16 mm film and animation, archival footage, and desktop documentary practices. Introduction by Irina Chernyakova followed response and Q&A by Corneel Cannaerts.

Organized by the MS in Advanced Architectural Design program, AAD Arguments lecture series.