Event
Inclusive Design Trajectories The Female Voices In Architecture And Design
October 6, 2021
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
As new challenges emerge, so does the role of each member of our society. Women in the field of architecture, interior and urban design, bring a unique perspective necessary for the way we design inclusive environments today.
The exclusion of diverse points of view during the design process, gives way to the creation of environments that do not address our collective needs. We can only arrive at a more valuable solution when the voices and perspectives are not only included but heard, acknowledged, and valued. Recognized as an indispensable piece of our collective vision.
Panelists participating in this event have been invited to share their approach for addressing a range of topics such as technology, the environment, material, and fabrication.
Organizers & Moderaters
- Maria R. Perbellini, Dean and Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
- Gertrudis Brens, Visiting Professor and Interim Director Interior Design Department, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
- Farzana Gandhi, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Panelists
Suchi Reddy
Founder, Reddymade NYC
Bio
Suchi Reddy is the founding principal of Reddymade. The guiding principle of the practice is “form follows feeling,” a design ethos informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to the design of our surroundings. The strong belief that good design, calibrated carefully to the human, positively influences wellbeing, creativity, and productivity informs all projects from conception to details.
In 2019, Reddy was appointed the Plym Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois School of Architecture, Champaign–Urbana, where her work focused on contemporary architectural experience through the lens of neuroaesthetics, neurophenomenology, and sensory design. Reddy has lectured on the firm’s work at numerous venues including The Salk Institute for the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture’s annual conference, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin. She sits on the board of the Design Trust for Public Space, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Madame Architect; she is on the Dean’s Board of Advisors at Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
As humans, we are molded, down to our biology, by our environments and experiences. This past year, the nature of our connection to space has come into sharp focus, not only in its manifestation in our physical lives but in our digital lives as well. We came to accept the digital realm as an essential part of who we are and how we live.
Hunkered down in our homes, technology created a vital space for our humanness. It was our lifeline to our loved ones, our doctors, our support systems, and a place to catalyze social change. It acquired a physicality in our psyche as a space that it did not have before: a new habitat with its own power to affect our feeling states and therefore who we are.
How can we incorporate technology, and the levels to which everyone has accepted and internalized it, for the collective good? As we embrace the increased presence of technology in a post-pandemic everyday and with a long-term look to the future, we should remember the power of all types of space—physical, digital, and hybrid.
Mariana Ibañez
Associate Professor and Chair, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Founder and Principal, Ibanez Kim
Bio
Mariana Ibañez is an Argentinian architect involved in practice, academia, and research. She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and the cofounder of Ibañez Kim, a genre-defiant practice that works with sensate materials, atmospheres, and new media to generate architecture, objects, and cities. Their work focuses on the disciplinary core of architecture and its growing periphery, with a focus on the relationship between technology, culture, and the environment. Before joining UCLA, Mariana taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for over a decade and for the past four years at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
As an author, Mariana has published two edited volumes, Paradigms in Computing by Routledge and Organization or Design? by a+t. She has also written numerous articles and chapters for Wiley and Sons, Harvard Design Magazine, ACTAR, Routledge, and others. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the MAXII museum in Rome, and The National Art Museum in Beijing with projects including work for the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Biennale in Seoul.
Mariana received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London.
Lecture Title: Sometimes Solid
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New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design at the 17th International Architecture Biennale 2021, and the Virtual Italian Pavilion
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