Laura Devendorf, an assistant professor of information science with the ATLAS Institute, is one of several keynote speakers at the ACADIA 2020 conference, this year held virtually from Oct. 24-30.
This year's conference聽features a series of keynote conversations organized around prompts related to the conference theme,聽"Distributed Proximities." The format will encourage dialogue, discussion聽and debate around topics critical to practices and pedagogies of design computation: Ecology & Ethics, Data & Bias, Automation & Agency, Culture & Access, Labor & Practice聽and Speculation & Critique, according to the conference website.
Devendorf's keynote,聽","听with Kate Hartman, associate professor and聽graduate program director, Digital Futures, OCAD University;聽and Vernelle A. A. Noel, visiting assistant professor of architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology,聽happens聽Wednesday, Oct.聽28, 4:15-5:45 p.m. EST. Bringing聽together designers and scholars whose work deals critically with questions of computation, craft聽and public engagement, the panel will聽delve聽into how computational design and data impact nearly every aspect of contemporary life and architecture and design practices, from聽user-friendly social media to highly skilled programming.聽聽
Of note, conference registration is .