University of Michigan Future of Technology Conference

The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, inspires and adapts. The presentations and panel discussions by the international roster of speakers are free and open to the public, however registration is preferred. Future of Technology is the 3rd conference in series of events (previous conferences being Future of Design, Fall 2009 and Future of Urbanism, Winter 2010) that bring together international experts to provide insight and debate on initiatives past, present and future. For details: www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/futureoftechnology Michelle Addington Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture Michael Batty Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis; Professor of Planning, The Bartlett, University College of London Keith Besserud AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Julian Bleecker Co-founder, Near Future Laboratory; Designer, Technologist, Researcher, Design Strategic Projects studio, Nokia Design, Los Angeles Andrew Borgart Researcher, Delft University of Technology Leah Buechley Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the High-Low Tech research group, Media Lab, MIT Mark Burry Professor of Innovation, Director, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Executive architect, researcher, Temple Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Michael Cadwell Professor and Architecture Section Head, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Hernan Diaz-Alonso Founder, principal, Xefirotarch Evan Douglis Dean, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Principal, Evan Douglis Studio Anna Dyson Program director, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Director, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (C.A.S.E.) Marc Fornes Principal, THEVERYMANY™ Usman Haque Founder, Pachube; Director, Haque Design + Research Ltd; CEO, Connected Environments Ltd. Walter Hood Principal, Hood Design; Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley Natalie Jeremijenko Associate professor of Visual Art, Steinhardt School, New York University Sheila Kennedy Principal, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. Axel Kilian Assistant Professor, Princeton School of Architecture Sean Lally Founder, WEATHERS; Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Linda Loudermilk Founder, Linda Loudermilk and luxury eco™ Jeffrey MacKie-Mason Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan Liat Margolis Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto Vernon Mays Senior writer, Gensler; Editor-at-large, Architect Magazine Heather Roberge Director, Undergraduate Program of Architectural Studies, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles; Principal, Murmur Ashley Schafer Associate Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University; Editor and Co-founder, Praxis Craig Scott Principal, Iwamotoscott Architecture; Associate Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts Eric Sheppard Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota Bruce Sterling American Science Fiction Author; Professor of Internet Studies and Science Fiction at the European Graduate School Amos Winter Director, MIT Mobility Lab