PM Sessions
Session 1: 6–6.50 pm
Session 2: 7–7.50 pm
Session 3: 8–8.50 pm

Lindsey Wikstrom
Lindsey is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator based in New York, her practice explores architecture that exposes the distance between people and material flows, inviting new forms of living, perception and access. As a Project Designer with a number of architecture offices, Lindsey contributed to award-winning large scale urban projects in New York, Toronto, Phoenix, Miami, and Brasilia. She is currently a contributing member of The Living and the non-profit organization Who Builds Your Architecture? She founded a fabrication and product design company in 2012 and received the SOM Prize in 2016 to catalog collective life using immersive reality capture. Lindsey holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, graduating with the Charles McKim Prize for Excellence in Design.

Alicia Ajayi
Alicia Ajayi explores the layered complexity of people, place, and power. Trained as an architect, researcher, and writer, her work engages the narratives that create the spaces we inhabit. After receiving a dual masters in architecture and social work from Washington University in St. Louis, Alicia worked as an associate designer at MASS Design Group. There, she was a member of the design team for the ground-breaking Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montogomery, AL, a site dedicated to the racial terror and lynching throughout US history. Alicia works with community development corporations, private developers, and nonprofits to create visions of spaces that reflect their mission and goals for positive change. Currently, Alicia lives and works in NYC as a designer, researcher, and consultant. She is also the project manager at BlackSpace Urbanist Collective.

Miku Dixit
Miku is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and founding partner of Kamara Projects, an architecture practice based in Kathmandu and Brooklyn. Recently completed and ongoing projects in Nepal include an early childhood education center, an athletic pavilion, an ecological center and a camera obscura installation. Miku’s research examines connections between landscape and deep history, particularly in the Global South. Miku holds a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in English Literature. His writing has been published in Log Journal for Architecture. Prior to founding his own practice, he worked at Adjaye Associates in New York.

Violet Whitney
Violet is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP where she teaches urban data analytics and tangible computing courses. She founded the Generative Design product where she applies her background in architecture and spatial data as a Senior Product Manager. Violet co-leads Architechies NYC an organization which brings together architects and technologists to break down silos, create opportunities, and generate a critical conversation about the future of urban tech. Violet spent her career in spatial simulation and technology in architecture, engineering, and construction. From computational design software that automates the fabrication of complex forms, life cycle-costing tools, and urban scale prediction from real-time sources like social media, her research focuses on how technology shapes the design process and urban experience.