I have been working on organizing and curating this conference and exhibition…

Cambridge Talks is an annual symposium organized by the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Harvard University that brings together junior and senior scholars to engage in an interdisciplinary exchange on critical themes in architectural discourse and urban studies.

This year, the topic for Cambridge Talks III will be “Mediated Space.” With media technologies embedded ever-deeper into architecture, the city and everyday life, a rigorous historiography of media’s relationship to space has become a burning issue. Under the radar of the dominant discourses on media that are fueled by technological fetishism and determinism, an innovative and rapidly evolving body of scholarship has evolved. The work of these scholars has crossed disciplinary boundaries to situate architecture and urbanism within new histories of spatial perception and kineaesthetics, the contingencies of the human sensorium, 19th-century optical devices and early cinema, sound technologies, and an expanded conception of cartography. Cambridge Talks III aims to channel this interdisciplinary momentum by providing a forum for the presentation and debate of vital new work.

Just finished teaching “Critical Urban Media Arts: An Experimental Workshop in Urban Research, Mapping and Representation” with Brian at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The course was presented by the school’s Spatial Information Design Lab and resulted in Periplurban, an experiential urban dictionary.