Unless otherwise noted, all conference programming will take place in the College of Design in one of our three main buildings:
Brooks Hall
50 Pullen Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
Leazar Hall
2230 Stinson Dr, Raleigh, NC 27607
Kamphoefner Hall
2221 Katharine Stinson Dr. Raleigh, NC 27607
12:00 – 5:00 | Registration | Allred Gallery, Kamphoefner Hall
12:00 – 1:00 | Welcome Luncheon for Workshop Participants | Brooks Hall (3rd Floor)
1:00 – 5:00pm | Early Academics’ Retreat | Brooks Hall (3rd Floor)
1:00 – 5:00pm | Design Thinking in K-12 Education Retreat | Kamphoefner 130
5:00 – 7:00 pm | Opening Reception and Networking | ALoft, Hillsborough Street.
8:00 – 5:00 | Registration | Allred Gallery, Kamphoefner Hall
9:00 – 10:30 | Opening Session | Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall
Location:
Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Matthew Shea
TRUE STORIES: comment je suis venu à aimer le canapé en velours rouge | Author: Ambroziak, Brian (University of Tennessee)
House of Play: The Joy of Sectional Exploration | Author: Barakat, Hala (Washington State University)
Estrangement and Reconciliation: Exploring the Limits of Neufert | Authors: Peñalver-Izaguirre, Maria De Los Angeles (Texas A&M University); Jimenez Iniesta, David (Texas A&M University)
The Unrolled Surfaces of History: Retooling Historic Indigenous Structures for the Beginning Design Student | Author: Mitchell, Bailey Morgan Brown (Oklahoma State University)
Working Drawing and Tall Order: Tools of Making, Tools of Discovery | Authors: Smith Loerts, Rachel;
Fitzpatrick, Lynn; Kuhns, Alyssa; Terry, Laura – Arkansas (University of Arkansas)
Location:
Room 321B | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Yuanqing Tian
Beyond Grading: Alternative Assessment in Beginning Design | Author: Bordelon, Louise (University of Colorado Denver)
A Tool for Reinforcing Learning Outcomes: A Case Study for Course Alignment | Authors: Browning, Lara; Nicolette, Matthew; Slyce, Hannah.
Teaching Collaboration as a Tool in the Architecture Studio | Authors: Hambright-Belue, Sallie (Clemson University); Costanzo, Salvatore; Treash, Caileigh; Ulloa, Valerie.
Architecture Without Buildings: Creative Thinking as Disruption | Tiffany Lin
Location:
Room 312 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Tharique De Silva
The Analog Digital: Historical Techniques as 21st Century Design Tools | Author: Fayyad, Iman (Harvard University)
Abstraction and Figuration in the Age of Digital Tools | Author: Fordham, Clifton (Temple University)
Architecture Makes Strange Bedfellows: The Workmanship of Risk and Certainty in Digital Design Education | Author: Singeisen, Scott (North Carolina Central University)
Translation as Tool: Revisiting the role of the drawing (and dance) in the post-digital landscape | Author: Kanter, Jordan
AI as a Tool for Beginning Design Students: Reflections from a Case Study on Generative AI in an Introductory Design Course | Authors: Téllez, Fabio Andrés (North Carolina State University);
Parrish, Leigh Ann (Appalachian State University)
Location:
Room 316 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Kathleen Kambic
The Art of Perception: A Pedagogical Approach to Sensory-Informed Design in the First-Year Studio| Author: Dottin, Danielle
Designing Spaces for Children: Tools for Implementing Research and Phenomenology in Architectural Education | Author: McDonald, Rosa (North Carolina State University)
Multisensory Storytelling in Architecture: A Pedagogical Tool for Experiential Engagement and Narrative Design | Author: Motamedi, Shooka
Vision training for designers: a new pedagogical model | Authors: Proietti, Tiziana (University of Oklahoma);
Gepshtein, Sergei
Exploring Sunlight in Architecture as a Tool of Student Imaginative Transformation | Temple, Stephen (University of Texas San Antonio)
12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch Special Session: What Should Beginning Design Be? Part 1 | Location: Room 318, Brooks Hall
1:45 – 5:00 | Special Session Tools for Accommodating Mental Health: Creating Inclusive, Accessible Learning Structures | Location: Room 130, Kamphoefner Hall
Location:
Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Raja Bandari
Casting Shadows with a New Solar Geometry Drafting Tool | Author: Madison Cook
Bridging Craft and Industrial Processes in Beginning Design Education: An Experiential Approach | Authors: Richard Elaver; Derek Eggers
Ecological Issues as Infographics | Author: Sara Codarin
Tooling with GenAI: Case Studies on Success and Impact for Design Education Beginners | Joshua Pridemore, Jena Marble, Yiqi Xiao
REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE | Author: Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio, John Clark, Carmen Mata
Designing Aphasia Support – The Cut-ups Project and Narrative Storytelling | Author: Todd Berreth
From Exposure to Inclusion: Lessons from the Design Lab for K-12 Education & Outreach | Author: Ashley Davis
Stack Mentorship Program (SMP): Diversity + Success | Author: Irene Hwang, Andrew Chin, Akima Brackeen
Teaching Students About Civil Rights Movement in Design Project | Author: Tanya Shanklin
Beyond Representation: Reframing Technology through Computational Image-Making | Author: Leanna Humphrey
Enhancing Design Education: A Multi-Level, Intercollegiate Soft Skills Workshop | Authors: Amanda Gale, Stephanie Sickler
Location:
Room G40, Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Lauren McQuistion
All Together Now: Affordances of Combined Pedagogical Tools in Architectural Structures Education | Stephanie Bunt
Designing the Future of Retail: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Industrial Design and Architecture Design | Author: Yong-Gyun Ghim, Ming Tang
From Weaving Wall to Vertical Farm: How the arts can promote interdisciplinary, holistic, real-world connections | Authors: Rebeccah Tuscano-Moss, Theodore Sawruk
Shaping Minds + Spaces: The Role of Contextual Behavioral Science in Architectural Education | Author: Chloe Huval
Immersive Tools: Large-Scale Physical Models and the Search for Kairotic Time | Authors: Kevin Barden, Ross G. Wienert
Location:
Room 321B, Leazar Hall
Moderator: Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchell
From Precedents to Companions: Bridging Architectural Analysis and Design in Beginning Design Studio | Authors: Shirley Dongwei Chen, James Michael Tate
Translation, Transformation and Reinterpretation of Precedent Imagery Through Mixed-Media Drawing | Author: Ken Filler
The Constructive Means: Re-Combinatory Design, an Architectural Alchemy | Steven Quevedo
Diagram as Tool: Bridging the Analytical and Synthetic Processes | Author: Matthew Shea
Tools of Translation: From Drawing to Making and Back Again | Cait McCarthy
Location:
Room 316, Leazar Hall
Moderator: Jarrett Fuller
Lost in Translation: Strategizing Tools for Collaborative Learning | SunMin May Hwang,
Benjamin J. Smith, Juanjuan Wu
Bridging Disciplines: Introducing Design Thinking in Non-Design Fields for Problem-Solving and Innovation – A Pilot Course Case Study | Taylor Metz
Interdisciplinary Tools for Emerging Designers | Jennifer Smith
Workshops as Tools for Agility, Collaboration, and Disruption | Rachael Paine, Bree McMahon, Johnathon Strube, Piper Schuerman
Tools as Systems of Making | Author: Pratana Klieopatinon
Location:
Room 312, Leazar Hall
Moderator: Keif Schleifer
Rethinking House and Site as Tools of Disruption in Beginning Design | Author: Burak Erdim
A Collaborative Citywide Design Studio | Author: Andrew Hart
Modern Problems; Radical Tradition: Exploring True Sustainability in a Second-year Residential Design Studio | Author: Paul Monson
Empower Design Beginners: Teaching Effective Carbon Sequestration Strategies in Housing Projects | Authors: Sonsoles Vela, Ruben Garcia
Location:
Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Raja Bandari
Foundational Design Studio: Evolutions in Pedagogy Over a Five Year Span | Authors: Ken Filler, Joseph McKenley
Beginning and Ending with Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Approach to Design Complexity | Author: Ryan Hargrove
(Re)Tooling: A Taxonomy of Design Studio Responses | Authors: Claudia Hernandez Feiks, Ting Chin
An Analysis of Design: Exploration Through the NCBDS Archive | Author: Jessica Oberg
Closing the Loop: Feedback as a Driver of Curriculum Evolution | Authors: Brad Deal, Kaden Beilman
Location:
Room G40, Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Andres Tellez
Using AI-Image Generation to Visualize Site Forces in Architecture | Authors: Sara Codarin, Rebecca Garma
Can AI Teach Design Fundamentals? Exploring AI-Assisted Feedback for Early Architectural Design Iterations | Authors: Newton Dsouza, Mohammad Dastmalchi, Sam Moshaver
After Image Culture: From AI Materials to Material Tectonics | Author: Nero Chenxuan He
UX UI Student Perspective on Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools | Author: David Oh
From Craft to Digital: A Generative AI Method for Architectural Composition and Design | Authors: Benjamin Ennemoser, Hans Steffes
Location:
Room 312, Leazar Hall
Moderator: Brian Ambroziak
Space Within a Wall: Tools of Architectural Resistance and Memory in Contested Spaces | Author: Hala Barakat
Model as Simulacrum: Synergies Between Model Building and Photography in the Design Studio | Authors: Andrew Hart, Eric Bellin
An Analogue Approach to Digital Photography: A Method to Encourage Experimentation and Risk-taking in the Creative Process | Author: Katie Graham
Cinematographic Urban Portraits: Film as a Multidimensional Mapping Tool of Physical Form and Sociocultural Aspects of the City | Author: Charlott Greub
Tooling of Phenomenology and Deconstructivism in First-Year Design Studio | Authors: Mine Hashas-Degertekin, Trace Gainey
Location:
Room 321B, Leazar Hall
Moderator: Lee-Su Huang
Stitching Structures: Sewing Soft Constructions in Design Foundations | Author: Virginia Melnyk
Tailor Made | Author: Keith Peiffer
Tools for Understanding Place And People: The Clothesline Project | Authors: Emily Smith, Sara Reed
The Wire Hand: An Instrument of Observation, Abstraction, Transformation, … and a Collective Spectacle | Author: Greg Snyder
Weaving the Storm | Author: Tamar Zinguer
5:00 – 6:00pm | Keynote Reception | Location: Allred Gallery and Courtyard, Kamphoefner Hall
6:00 7:00pm | Keynote Lecture | Location: Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall
Dinner On Your Own
8:00 – 12:00 | Registration | Allred Gallery, Kamphoefner Hall
Location:
Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Raja Bandari
Custom Glow: Empowering Students to Design and 3D Print Unique Bespoke Lighting | Jake Tucci, Jinoh Park
Ten (Extra-)Canonical Huts: Vernacular Analysis as a Tool for Climate-Responsive Beginning Design Education | Aurelie Frolet
Between Line and Image | Donghwan Moon
Shared Resources: Tools for a Novice Forager | Katie Stranix
Start with the Existing | Stephanie Davidson
Designing with Artificial Intelligence: Integrating AI as a Collaborative Partner | Ira Concepcion
Using Objects as Tools for Building Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Climate Issues and Activism Course | Saskia Van Kampen
Inputs + Outputs Workshop: Introducing Microcontrollers, Sensors, and Interactive Elements in the Context of a Human-Centered Industrial Design Studio Project | Connor Irwin
Exploring the “Physdigital” in Design Education | Cat Normoyle, Megan Irwin
New Partners in Design: The Human-Robot Collaboration | Eleanor Pries, Kohar Scott
Location:
Room G40, Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Rosa McDonald
Repair As a Radical Teaching Tool | Author: John Dixon
Beyond the Finish Line: Disrupting Traditional 3D Modeling Education in Industrial Design | Author: Hernan Gregorio
Toolkits of Agency: Teaching Process Before Product in Beginning Design | Adriana Elser, Kristin Barry
Upside Down Tools: Reverse Engineered Intelligent Design Aids | Authors: Jonathan Dessi-Olive, Peter Wong
Location:
Room 312 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Shawn Protz
Reclaiming Narratives: Storytelling as a Tool for Design Empowerment in Architecture | Author: Teisha Bradley
Counter-Narratives and Collage: Engaging Diverse Voices through Critical Design Methods | Authors: Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Gina Fernandes
If This, Then That: Tools for Translation | Author: Eilís Finnegan
Reconstructing Ambiguities: Reclaiming the Grid as an Analytical Tool for Historical Digital Modeling | Authors: Elif Ozturk, Victoria Szabo,
Augustus Wendell
The Game: De-tooling, Re-tooling, and Rule-ing to Foster Soft Skills in an Interdisciplinary First-Year Studio | Authors: Lucy Satzewich, Sarah Young
Location:
Room 310 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: David Hill
Retooling an Approach to Introducing Architectural Design | Author: Sean Burns
Tools at Scale: CNC Fabrication Pedagogy in Large Class Settings | Author: Lee-Su Huang
Tangible Hybrids: Integrating Digital Fabrication and Manual Craftsmanship in Architectural Education | Authors: Marc-Eduard Ihle,
Benjamin Ennemoser, James Michael Tate
Tacit Learning + Robotics: Rethinking Material Agency in Design | Author: Santiago Perez
Beyond Precision: A Process-Driven Approach to Introducing Digital Fabrication | Author: Zach Seibold
Location:
Room 316 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Leanna Humphrey
Not Buildings, Rocks: Retooling the Technical Substrate of Beginning Representation | Author: James Piccone
Experimentation and Exploration of Technology and Artistry Through the Use of Project Platforms in Beginning Animation Classes | Author: Marc Russo
Virtual Visualization as Techne: Reflections on Adaptation, Entanglement, and Impact in the Architecture Studio | Authors: Masataka Yoshikawa, Julia Kiernan
Embracing Complexity: Teaching Design with Flexible Tool Frameworks | Author: Liese Zahabi
Animation as Iteration: The Role of Animation as a Design Tool in Early Architectural Education | Authors: Jia Zhou Zhu, Teddy Slowik
Location: Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Shawn Protz
Off the Deep End: A Reversed Pedagogy for Learning BIM | Author: Lee-Su Huang
The AI Analytique: Diffusion Models as Conceptual Catalysts | Author: Lee-Su Huang
Designing Using Algorithms, 3D Printing and Artificial Intelligence in an Iterative Process | Armando Araiza
Learning Tools: Exploring Modularity as Play Through Building Blocks | Rosa McDonald
Access Games: Hands-on Approaches to Understanding Design for Disability | Julia McMorrough
State of the Field: Expanding Architectural Theory for Undergraduate Design Students | Lauren McQuistion
Soft Spaces: Integrating Augmented Reality and Craft in Beginning Design Education with Low-Cost Materials | David Jimenez Iniesta, Maria De Los Angeles Peñalver-Izaguirre, Marc-Eduard Ihle, Hans Steffes,
Benjamin Ennemoser, Shirley Dongwei Chen
Design Thinking for Non-Designers: Empowering Creativity Through Digital Tools | Joshua Pridemore, Jena Marble
Finding Balance: Physical and Digital Explorations | Stephen Skorski
Digitizing the Analog World | Kwesi Daniels
Building Student Soft Skills in Experimentation and Curiosity through Hybrid Design Methods | Ellen Christensen
Location: Room G40, Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Bess Williamson
Extraordinary Tools: Neurodiversity, the Inclusive Studio, and the Challenges of Beginning Design | Kristin Barry, Nettie Meeks
Tools of Engagement: Experiments in Pedagogy for a Diverse Student Body | William Fryer, Eugene Seungho Park, Yan (Rain) Wang, Ammr Vandal
Tools for Building Creative Confidence in the First-Year Studio Curriculum | Matthew Jones, Kate Horton
Mindful Pedagogies: Interdisciplinary Design Studio Approaches for Building a Healthy and Empathetic Practice | Eric Bellin, Loukia Tsafoulia
Extrinsic Choices in Student Design Projects: The Toolkit of Greater Student Agency in Beginning Studio Assignments | Author: Cesar Cruz
Location: Room 321B | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Enya Moore
The Hand as an Intelligent Tool | Rachel Smith Loerts, Alyssa Kuhns, Lynn Fitzpatrick, Laura Terry
Embracing (im)Perfection: Integrating Tradition and Technology | Derek Toomes,
Stoel Burrowes
Model Pedagogy | Christopher Welty, Arief Setiawan
Tooling Sympathetic Materials within the Architectural Artifact | Nicholas Wickersham
Sculp | Contain | Inhabit | Site (v.): 1st Semester Architectural Design Studio | Will Wittig
Location: Room 316 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Victoria Farrow
CampARCH Quick Shifts | Weiling He
Re-Tooling of a Foundation | Christopher Pritchett, James Bassett
Tools as Catalysts for Empowerment, Customizing Design Solutions for Tomorrow’s Challenges | Zahra Rasti
From Words to Works: Harnessing Language as a Critical Tool for Navigating Uncertainty in Design | Author: Nicholas Brinen
Location: Room 312 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Marcia Lopes de Mello
Harnessing Empathy as a Design Tool: Transformative Implications for a Beginning Design Studio Memorial Project | Laura Battaglia
New Tools for Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Incorporating More-Than-Human Perspectives in Experience Design Education | Valeria Lopez Torres
Nurture over Nature, Revisited: IRL Strategies Learned from Black Boxes | Dave Pabellon, Victor Zagabe
Enhancing Student Agency in Design Education Using Graphical Reflection Tools (GRT) | Keif Schleifer, Michael Frush
Location: Room 310 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Virginia Melnyk
From Object to Agent: Reimagining the Machine in the Age of the Anthropocene | Angela Bracco
Hang Time: Modeling and Imaging Shells | Molly Dalsin, Federico Garcia Lammers
MycoDwelling Studio: Integrating Biomaterials in Architectural Design Education | Benay Gursoy
Aesthetic Microstructures: Exploring Nacre Microstructures and Digital Design Thinking in Foundational Design | Edgar Garcia Carrasco, Jessica Hernandez
Bridging Digital and Physical: Using Augmented Reality for Modularity and Seriality in Architecture | Benjamin Ennemoser
12:30 – 1:30 | Special Session What Should Beginning Design Be? Part 2 | Room 318, Brooks Hall | Moderators: Tim McGinty, Don Gatzke, Patricia Morgado
12:30 – 2:45 | Special Session NCBDS Board Lunch | Room 130, Kamphoefner Hall
Location:
Burns Auditorium | Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Burak Erdim
Emerging Design Tools for Deep Energy Retrofits | David Shanks
Spatial Organization and the Devices of Composition | Kathleen Kambic
Analog Tools in Handcrafted Computational Design: Designing the Process, Not the Object | Diego Camargo
Learning Through Full-Scale, Site-Specific Making: Spatial Engagement Tools for Beginning Design Students | William Mangold
Boatbuilding: An Architectural Microcosm | Michael McGlynn
Woven Projections: Abstract Interpretations + Sustainable Adaptations | Margaux Schindler
Pen, Paper, Pixel: An Examination of Sketch-to-Image Generative AI’s Relevance in Early Concept and Design Development | Tharique De Silva
Time Telling, Sound Making: The Tower as a Pedagogical Instrument | Madison Cook
Bridging the Gap: AI, Analog Techniques, and Foundational Architectural Representation | Kyle Spence
Prototyping Urban Infill: Enhancing Iterative Design in Undergraduate Housing Studios | Terri Bullard, Francesco Cianfarani
Bridging Academia and Industry: Reflection Tools as Catalysts for Evolving Design Education and Internship Practices | Byungsoo Kim, Scott Barton
Design-Building House 1 – The Bear | Robert Michel Charest
Location:
Room G40, Kamphoefner Hall
Moderator: Nero Chenxuan He
Post-Digital Processes | Emilija Landsbergis
Design Media as a Tool: Leveraging Technology as a Counterpart to Theory and Technical Design | Madison Sabatelli
SUCCESS BY ASSOCIATION: Combinatorial Subjectivities For Comparative Design Ideation | Ben Schoenekase
From Social Media to Scholarly Discourse: Retooling Education for the Digital Generation | Stephen Mallory,
Scott Shall
Location:
Room 321B | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Keith Peiffer
Skills Immersion Toward Mastery: Beginning Design Studio as Concept, Tool, and Software Intensive | Kristin Barry, Nick Adams, Isabel Anderson, Ethan Orion, Alezandria Purdue, Nashaly Santiago Guzman
Tooling and Community Engagement with Beginner Virtual Reality Students | Victoria Bradbury
Testing Free Alternatives to Proprietary Software in Architectural Education | Mike Christenson, Abigail Green, Xiaotong Liu, Kallie Self
Democratizing Studio Learning Spaces through Digital Collaboration and Project Management Tools | Isabel Bo-Linn, Joshua Pridemore
Building Skills to Bridge the Gap: A Case for Tool Literacy Programs for Underrepresented Demographics in Design Fields | Amanda Simons, Sara Sanders
Location:
Room 312 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Kelly Homan
Play/List: Using Music to Increase Agency in the Architecture Studio | Jon Gould
Space for Imagination: The Serious Play of Drawing Concepts from Children’s Books | Deborah Ku
PLAY(ing) | Rachel Smith Loerts, Alison Turner
The Role of Paper in Early Design Education: Bridging Skills and Fostering Creativity | David Matthews, Hojung Kim
Location:
Room 310 | Leazar Hall
Moderator: Raja Bandari
Sketch as Tool | Catherine Wetzel, Simon Bussiere, Lance Walters
From Observation to Drawing: Teaching Spatial Understanding through Scales | Shirley Dongwei Chen
Drawing Tools: Leveraging Comparative Analysis for Early Design Development in Architecture | Benjamin Ennemoser, James Michael Tate, Maria De Los Angeles Peñalver-Izaguirre
Drawing on Observation: Impacts of Travel on Beginning Design Education | Rachel Smith Loerts, Alyssa Kuhns, Lynn Fitzpatrick, Laura Terry
Join us for BBQ, Bluegrass and celebration at The Stockroom at 230 Fayetteville Street in the center of downtown Raleigh. Located on the second floor of the Carolina Trust Building, this historic venue provides a charming blend of exposed brick, warm hardwood floors, lofty lattice ceilings laced with market lighting, and natural light, which crafts an atmosphere exceptional for any occasion.
Get ready for some local food and local music that blends traditional southern cuisine and culture with a contemporary and urban flair that is characteristic of Raleigh’s innovative community!
A bus will leave the College of Design campus (outside of Leazar Hall) at 5:45 and 6:15, stopping at Glenwood and Hillsoborough street on the way downtown. It will retur starting around 8:30.
North Carolina Museum of Art Excursion Details to come
Modernist House Tour Excursion Details to come
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