Talks and Lectures

Selected Public Speaking Engagements,

Biennale Architettura 2025: GENS Public Programme. Invited talk and conversation entitled Your Home is an Interface: Designing Domesticity in an Era of AI. Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice, IT. Fall 2025.

Practicing Growth in a Finite World. Talk and panel discussion on ethics in 21st century design practice. Harvard Graduate School of Design Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Public Lecture Series. Cambridge, MA. Fall 2025.

2025 SUTD MArch Lecture Series, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Invited lecture titled The Architect in a World of Changing Values. Singapore. Spring 2025.

Eames Institute Discussion Series (San Francisco Design Week). Invited talk and panel discussion on the agency of design practice in confronting systemic change. San Francisco, CA. Spring 2025.

Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52 Lecture and Discussion at The Design School at Arizona State University (ASU). Invited talk and discussion on Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52: Instruments of Service, Ed. Christoforetti, E. and Reidel, J. Tempe, AZ. Spring 2025.

Department of Architecture Lecture Series at Georgia Institute of Technology. Invited talk and discussion on The Architect in a World of Changing Values: From the Outside In and Inside Out. Atlanta, GA. Spring 2025.

Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) Salon Series. Invited talk and discussion on Value/Values. New York, NY. Spring 2025.

Environmental Adaptions/Adaptive Environments. Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Symposium. Invited talk on recent research titled A Speculative Perspective (on low-energy and systems-linked architecture as act and artifact). Cambridge, MA. Spring 2025.

Boston Area Research Initiative 2025 Conference. Invited talk on recent research titled Accelerating Production of ADUs through Research Backed Program Design. Presented with City of Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and Boston Home Center. Boston, MA. Spring 2025.

Harvard GSD Master in Design Studies Program Symposium: New Mediums in Architecture. Invited talk on the work of Supernormal. Participant in related round-table discussion moderated by Mohsen Mostafavi. Cambridge, MA. Spring 2025.

The Design School at Arizona State University (ASU) Faculty Discussion Series. Invited talk and discussion on Interdisciplinarity and the Disciplinary Core: Challenges in Design Pedagogy. Tempe, AZ. Spring 2025.

Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52 Launch at Head Hi. Invited talk and panel on Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52: Instruments of Service, Ed. Christoforetti, E. and Reidel, J.. New York, NY. Spring 2025.

Mayors’ Institute for City Design Just City Mayoral Fellowship Program. Invited talk on Innovative Practices in Housing Design and Delivery. Cambridge, MA. Spring 2025.

Spring 2025 Harvard GSD Town Hall Meeting. Invited talk and discussion on Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52: Instruments of Service. Online, Cambridge, MA. Spring 2025.

Tech Perspectives: AI & the Future of AEC Conference. Invited talk entitled Artificial Intelligence and Collaboration: The Human Dimension. Japan Society, New York, NY. 2025.

Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52 Launch Lecture at Harvard GSD. Delivered framing talk and remarks on the content of Harvard Design Magazine Issue 52: Instruments of Service, Ed. Christoforetti, E. and Reidel, J. Cambridge, MA. Fall 2024.

Inundation District: A joint conversation on design, policy, and sea level rise in America’s urban districts, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard GSD Joint Event. Panelist in cross-disciplinary conversation between the public and private sectors regarding the need for practices of cross-sector collaboration to confront sea level rise in urban areas. Cambridge, MA. Spring 2024.

“Conversations” Lecture Series at the Boston Society of Architects. Invited lecture and discussion on works in practice. Supernormal’s ongoing work on systems integrated architecture was presented through the lens of a single project involving scalable solutions to additional dwelling units. Talk entitled Systems-linked Architecture. Boston, MA. Spring 2024.

Agency: Atmosphere 16 Keynote Lecture at the University of Manitoba. Invited keynote lecture entitled Agency, Complexity, and Design Practice in an Era of Scalable Systems. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Spring 2024.

SHoP Architects SHoP Week Series. Invited talk on Artificial Intelligence in Design Practice. New York, NY. Spring 2024.

Design Research Society Conference. Opening talk delivered with Andrew Witt on Harvard MDE and the Future of Design Pedagogy at DRS 2024 international design conference on design methods and practice. Cambridge, MA. Summer 2024.

IED (Instituto Europeo di Design)Turin Interdisciplinary Design Degree Lecture Series. Invited lecture delivered on Our Artificial Nature: Emerging Practices of the Built Environment. Turin, Italy. 2024.

American Planning Association National Conference. Selected within a competitive process to present research on Open Zoning Feed Specification, a parcel-level approach to systematizing and making legible zoning data for missing middle housing. Minneapolis, MN. 2024.

Mayors’ Institute for City Design Just City Mayoral Fellowship Program. Invited Speaker and Expert Panelist. Spent three days advising mayors within the Just City Mayoral Fellowship program on municipal challenges related to urban practices. Cambridge, MA.

Fall 2023 Public Lecture Series at Harvard GSD. Our Artificial Nature: Perspectives on Design for an Era of Environmental Change. Talk and discussion with MoMA Curator Carson Chan on the trajectory of design research and practice in response to environmental change. Cambridge, MA. Fall 2023.

_positions Lecture Series at Harvard GSD. Invited talk and discussion on the practice of Supernormal in relation to the wider field of design as part of the Department of Architecture faculty lecture series. Cambridge, MA. Fall 2023.

AIA New York Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A): Future of Architectural Practice. Invited talk and discussion summarizing the current state of architectural practice in relation to Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY. 2023.

Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The State of Housing 2023 Panel moderation and discussion entitled “Outside” on the state of housing in relation to zoning and factors driving design from the outside in. Cambridge, MA. 2023.

Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design. What is Design Research? Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Invited talk entitled Design Research in Practice addressing the relationship between human values and scalable systems of design. Cambridge, MA. 2023.

International Council on Open Building. Beyond Single Use: Open Building, Architecture, and Urban Design. Invited talk entitled Scalable Systems of Design on the work of Supernormal focusing on recent projects and practice-based research around the design imperatives of finance-driven design. 2023.

Mayors Institute for City Design Just City Mayoral Fellowship Introduction Series. Invited talk at the Lincoln Institute on Land Policy on emerging research agendas, collaborative design methodologies, and the practice and work of Supernormal. 2023.

Boston Society of Architects Sustainability Education Committee Lecture Series. Invited talk on Engaged Practice as a Platform for “Sustainable” Design featuring perspectives from practice and the academy. 2023.

Boston Society of Architects Summer Sessions Forum. Architecture Schools Engaging, Innovating, and Changing the Field. Invited talk and panelist as part of the BSA Summer Sessions on Professional Practice. This Summer Session focused on how schools are engaging with, innovating in, and changing the teaching and understanding of practice of architecture. 2023.

MIT Norman B. Levanthal Center for Advanced Urbanism Discussion. Future Makers: Blueprints for the Future of Pedagogy and Practice. Invited participant at the third of five gatherings on the topic of Digital Urbanism. Discussion focused upon the role of pedagogy and relationship between research and practice in the advancement of digital urbanism. 2022.

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Conference Bringing Digitization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges? Invited commenter, panelist, and written contributor on the panel “How Is Digitalization Changing How Housing Is Designed & Built?” 2022.

American Institute of Architects Building Connections Congress: Technology in Architectural Practice Session Digital Transformation and Leveraging Community Data. Invited panelist. 2022.

Stockholm School of Economics House of Innovation Conference. Dialogues in the Garden: Reframe to Restart Conference. Invited dialogue entitled A New Design Manifesto: From Userism to Ourism. In conversation with Professor Roberto Verganti. 2021.

PRIMER21 Global Conference. Invited lecture entitled After Architecture: Body as Building on human-machine collaboration in design practice and cultural production. 2021.

American Institute of Architects Building Connections Congress 2021. Technology in Architectural Practice Sessions. Invited talk entitled Machine Intelligence and Architectural Practice on the changing nature of the architectural model from modello and maquette to machine learning. 2021.

Seaport Sessions: Design Seaport. Invited talk and panel conversation on Supernormal’s installation within the Design Seaport public art program. Spring 2021.

Urban Land Institute Making Connections Series. Invited talk on the development and recent work of Supernormal. 2021.

Boston Society of Architects Practice Based Research Conference. Invited talk entitled What does IP have to do with design practice? 2020.

Sasaki Foundation Speaker Series. Moderator for public panel on making change in housing policy and practice. 2020.

DigitalFUTURES WORLD : ARCHITECTS UNITE Machine Intelligence in Architecture Session. Invited talk on recent research entitled Collective design for collective living: Machine learning, the participatory processes, and the changing role of the architect. 2020.

Beyond AEC Conference. Invited talk as featured speaker on the topic of the recent work of Supernormal. Waltham, MA. 2019.

Boston Society of Architects Practice Series. Invited talk and panel conversation on emerging potentials in architectural practice. Boston, MA. Spring 2019.

Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Invited lecture titled Supernormal: An exploration of post-digital design practice. Amherst, MA. Spring 2019.

Facades + Invited talk and affiliated workshop, co-taught with Perkins + Will, on the topic of Big Data and Design. New York, NY. 2019.

AHIC Affordable Housing Summit. Invited talk and panel conversation on the use of emerging technologies in housing design. Nashville, TN. 2019.

Urban Land Institute (ULI) Young Leadership Group. Invited presentation and panel participation on the topic of Data and Placemaking. Boston, MA. 2019.

City College of New York, Spring Sciame Lecture Series. Invited talk titled Supernormal. New York, NY. 2018.

Harvard Kennedy School Fairness, Sustainability and Data for the Global South Workshop. Invited talk titled Building Civic Form and Frameworks within Infrastructures of Urban Data. Cambridge, MA. 2018.

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Design Discovery Lecture Series. Invited talk titled Supernormal. Cambridge, MA. 2018.

INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) International Workshop. Invited talk titled Big Data for Small Places: Utilizing Emerging Quantitative Information for Improved Urban Quality. 2018.

Congress for the New Urbanism New England Summit. Invited talk titled Systematizing the Small. Boston, MA. 2018.

Congress for the New Urbanism. Invited talk titled Big Data for Small Places. Seattle, WA. 2017.

Boston Society of Architects Placemaking Network. Invited talk titled Using quantitative methods to understand and transform the quality of our urban places. Boston, MA. 2016.

Yale School of Management Real Estate Conference. Invited talk titled Leveraging new methods in data, design, and development. New Haven, CT. 2016.

American Architectural Foundation Civic Leadership Design Forum. Served on panel during round-table discussion on the intersection of design and technology. Cambridge, MA. 2016.

Mayors Institute for City Design. Served on panel as design expert and delivered talk on Agile design practice and the feedback loop between data and design. Oakland, CA. 2016.

Harvard Graduate School of Design. Public talk and panel discussion addressing professional practice in architecture and urban design. Cambridge, MA. 2016.

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo. Delivered talk titled The Urban Sense Lab sensor testbed and hyperlocal data collection and analysis in public-private partnerships. Austin, TX. 2016.

ALSA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Regional Conference. Delivered talk title Big Data for Small Places and new technological capacity in the design of the public realm. Nashville, TN. 2016.

ABX 2015 Architecture Boston Expo Keynote Symposium. Invited talk titled The role of research in practice. Boston, MA. 2015.

Boston Society of Architects. Invited talk titled The Lawn on D and BCEC (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center) urban design methods. Boston, MA. 2015.

AIA New England Regional Conference. Invited talk titled The Future of Practice and Services in Architecture and Urban Design. Providence, RI. 2014.