2021 Stuckeman School Research Symposium

Design Consequences: Taking Responsibility for Our Ideas

September 23 – 24

Watch Live Here: https://www.watch.psu.edu/stuckeman/design-consequences/

“State Looks, Black Desire(s), Housing Schemes”

Ife Salema Vanable

“Building Justice: A place to be”

Rayne Laborde

“On Sistered Design”

Lily Song and Euneika Rogers-Sipp

Roundtable Event

Includes all Thursday speakers – Lily Song, Euneika Rogers-Sipp, Rayne Laborde, Ife Salema Vanable. Moderator: Alexandra Staub, Penn State

“The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: How architecture, tech-equity, and community informatics can dismantle racism, improve designing for equity, and increase social justice”

Antwi Akom, Ph.D.

“What does feminist data science look like?”

Catherine D’Ignazio

“Designing Fair Legal Futures”

Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Roundtable Event

Includes all Friday speakers – Antwi Akom, Catherine D’Ignazio, Andrea Matwyshwyn. Moderator: Daniel Susser, Penn State

Antwi Akom, Ph.D.

Antwi Akom is an eco-visionary on “Community Informatics,” which combine people-centric design with cutting-edge technology to achieve new standards of affordability, mobility, sustainability, equity, and opportunity for all. Named one of the world’s top innovators at then-President Barack Obama’s Frontiers Conference (2016) and awarded the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Pioneer Award (2019), what makes Akom’s work unique is his ability to integrate “community-drive data” with big data in ways that make communities smarter, more equitable, just, and sustainable. Full bio.

Catherine D’Ignazio

Assistant professor of urban science and planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab. Full bio.

Rayne Laborde

Rayne Laborde is the associate director of cityLAB UCLA, a design research center concentrated on urban spatial justice. She is an award-winning architectural designer, urban planner, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work combines community collaboration and planning methods with design practice. Full bio.

Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Andrea M. Matwyshyn is an academic and author whose work focuses on the intersection of technology design, innovation policy, and law, particularly information security/ “cybersecurity,” artificial intelligence/machine learning, health tech and infodemiology, consumer privacy, intellectual property, technology competition, and workforce pipeline policy. Full bio.

Lily Song

Lily Song is an assistant professor of race and social justice in the built environment in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on infrastructure-based mobilizations and experiments that center the experiences and insights of frontline communities. Full bio.

Euneika Rogers-Sipp

Euneika Rogers-Sipp is a planning and design artist and the founder of the Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates. She has extensive experience in regional design and land use planning — from microscopic to landscape scales — and works intersecting ecological and cultural creation, design education, and public art. 

Ife Salema Vanable

Ife Salema Vanable is an architect, theorist, and historian who holds degrees in architecture from Cornell and Princeton Universities. She is the founder and leader of i/van/able, a Bronx-based architectural workshop and think tank. She is also a visiting professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, visiting scholar at the Yale School of Architecture, and a doctoral candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Full bio.