Community
Through panels, workshops, and other events, the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee offers regular opportunities to engage with experts and thought leaders at the intersection of space and place. Below, find a curated list of speakers and participants in the committee’s past events.
Integrating Research and Design Practice
Social Science Methods in Action
Communicating Across Disciplines
Iterating on Science and Design
| Name | Credentials | Affiliation at time of speaking | Events | Themes |
| Quardean Lewis-Allen | Founder and CEO | Youth Design Center | Decolonizing Design Research: Citizen Participation | |
| Camilla Siggaard Andersen | Project Architect | Gehl New York | Social Science & Architecture History Primer | |
| Daniel Aronberg | Assoc. AIA, Co-Chair; Designer | AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee; 1100 Architects | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |
| Selin Ashaboglu | Editorial Intern | Architect Magazine | ||
| Sally Augustin | PhD, Principal | Design with Science | AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee Launch | |
| Carlo Bailey | Design Researcher | WeWork | I Love this Place! Exceptional Design Driven by Social Research | |
| James Berge | AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Regional Leader of Science and Technology | HOK | Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies | |
| Amy Beth | Chief Librarian and Director of Academic Technologies, Associate Professor | CUNY | Fall Film Night: Living Salk Institute | |
| Jonah Bleckner | ||||
| Joyce Bromberg | Chief Strategy Officer | Convene | Workplace Design Part II: Coworking | |
| Anastasia Brown | Community Manager | WeWork | Program, Program, Program | |
| Chris Butterick | Director, Workplace Operations | In Pursuit of Performance: Finance & Social Evidence of Success | |
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| Caitlin Cahill | PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Geography & Politics | Pratt Institute | Education of an Architect: Incorporating Social Science
Decolonizing Design Research: Citizen Participation |
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| Danei Cesario | AIA, NCARB, NOMA, Associate | Array Architects | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |
| David Chapin | Architect and Professor | CUNY | Exploring the Past, Defining the Future,
Fall Film Night: Living Salk Institute |
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| Susan Chin | FAIA, Hon. ASLA, Executive Director | Design Trust for Public Space | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science | |
| Abigail Conklin | Program Manager | Creative Connections NYC | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |
| Enrico Cullen | Director, Strategy | a.i.r. nyc | Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies | |
| Daniel Davis | Director of Research | WeWork | Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data | |
| Ann Devlin | PhD, Professor of Psychology | Connecticut College | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science | |
| Lucia Diana | Global Real Estate | Verizon | Workplace Design Part II: Coworking | |
| Ken Douglas | Principal | Illumination Arts | Lighting with People in Mind | |
| Deshonay Dozier | PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Geography | Cal State Long Beach | Decolonizing Design Research: Activist Scholar | |
| Jacob Dugopolski | AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Associate | WXY | Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies | |
| Ingrid Erikson | Assistant Professor at School of Informational Studies | Syracuse University | Exploring the Past, Defining the Future | |
| Scott Francisco | Founder and Director | Pilot Project | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science,
Education of an Architect: Incorporating Social Science |
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| Joanna Frank | President, CEO | Center for Active Design | In Pursuit of Performance: Finance & Social Evidence of Success | |
| Guy Geier | FAIA, FIIDA, LEED, Principal | FXCollabrative | I Love this Place! Exceptional Design Driven by Social Research | |
| April Greene | ||||
| Ian Grohsgal | CNC Machinist | Harvard University Graduate School of Design | ||
| Navjot Heer | MUP, Planner; Core Organizer | Thrivance Group; Design As Protest | Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice | |
| Nitzan Hermon | Researcher | Independent Researcher of AI | Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data | |
| Christin Hu | MLA, BArch, Editor; Core Organizer | Failed Architecture; Design As Protest | Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice | |
| Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman | Adjunct, Thesis Advisor | Drexel University | Exploring the Past, Defining the Future | |
| Eivind Karlsen | Director of Design | Industrious | Workplace Design Part II: Coworking | |
| Hana Kassem | AIA, LEED AP, Principal | Kohn Pederson Fox | ||
| Komal Kehar | Founder | Mira Projects | In Pursuit of Performance: Finance & Social Evidence of Success | |
| Ethan Kent | Senior Vice President | Project for Public Spaces | Hesitations & Constraints: Understanding Barriers to Social Research in Practice | |
| Chazandra Kern | Program Manager + Design Lead; Core Organizer | LA Más; Design As Protest | Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice | |
| Fauzia Khanani | Assoc. AIA, Principal and Founder | Studio Fōr | Education of an Architect: Incorporating Social Science,
Walk the Talk: An Example of Successful Social Science and Design Integration, Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture |
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| Caroline Kim | Founder | Paperbox Projects | In Pursuit of Performance: Finance & Social Evidence of Success | |
| Evie Klein | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science,
Exploring the Past, Defining the Future, Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies, Lighting with People in Mind |
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| Mark Kubicki | Principal | Tillotson Design Associates | Lighting with People in Mind | |
| Joseph Kunkel | Executive Directo; Director | Sustainable Native Communities, Santa Fe, NM; MASS Design Group | Decolonizing Design Research: Activist Scholar | |
| Setha Low | Professor, The Graduate Center, | CUNY | Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies | |
| Daphne Lundi | Urban Planner; Vice Chair | NYC Department of City Planning; APA New York Metro Chapter Diversity Committee | Social Science and Architecture Primer: Activists | |
| Mike Lydon | Principal | The Street Plans Collaborative | Program, Program, Program | |
| Samantha MacBride | Director of Research | NYC Department of Sanitation | ||
| Sydney Mainster | LEED AP, Sustainability Manager | The Durst Organization | Hesitations & Constraints: Understanding Barriers to Social Research in Practice | |
| Paco Márquez | Poet; Editor | OccuPoetry | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |
| Melissa Marsh | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science,
Program, Program, Program, Walk the Talk: An Example of Successful Social Science and Design Integration, I Love this Place! Exceptional Design Driven by Social Research, In Pursuit of Performance: Finance & Social Evidence of Success, Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data, Social Science and Architecture Primer: Activists |
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| Paul McConnell | Design Director | Intersection | I Love this Place! Exceptional Design Driven by Social Research | |
| Cindy McLaughlin | CEO | Envelope | Social Science and Architecture Primer: Activists | |
| Leah Meisterlin | Assistant Professor | Columbia University | Designing for People Using Evidence: WELL, LEED and what’s next? | |
| Andrea J. Merrett | PhD Candidate; Co-Curator | Columbia University; Architexx’s Now What?! Advocacy, Activism, and Allies in American Architecture Since 1968 | Social Science and Architecture Primer: Activists | |
| Clare Miflin | Principal | Kiss + Cathcart Architects | Designing for People Using Evidence: WELL, LEED and what’s next? | |
| Bill Millard | Author | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science | |
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| Susan Miller-Viray | Founding Partner | The Bloc | Walk the Talk: An Example of Successful Social Science and Design Integration | |
| Rachel Montana | Senior Design Researcher | WeWork | ||
| Jessica Morris | Architectural Designer | Daniel Park Architects | ||
| Emily Moss | Director of Architectural Design BFA and Urban Design BS | Parsons School of Design | Education of an Architect: Incorporating Social Science | |
| Margaret Newman | FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C, Associate Principal | ARUP | Hesitations & Constraints: Understanding Barriers to Social Research in Practice | |
| Suzanne Nienaber | Partnerships Director | Center for Active Design | Summer Social | |
| Alex O’Briant | ||||
| Amara H. Pérez, Ph.D. | Popular Educator, Participatory Action Researcher, and Critical Strategist | Decolonizing Design Research: Citizen Participation | |
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| Jennifer Preston | Senior Associate | BKSK Architects | Designing for People Using Evidence: WELL, LEED and what’s next? | |
| Pratik Raval | Associate Director; Lecturer | Transsolar Inc.; MIT | Hindsight is 20/20: The Power of Post-Occupancy | |
| Tomas Rossant | Partner | Ennead Architects | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science,
Social Science & Architecture History Primer |
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| Shawhin Roudbari | Assistant Professor, Environmental Design | University of Colorado Boulder | Decolonizing Design Research: Activist Scholar | |
| Nathalie Rozot | President, CEO | PhoScope | Lighting with People in Mind | |
| Carolyn A. Schultz | President & Founder | Carolyn A. Schultz Marketing and Communications | ||
| Jae Shin | Designer and Partner | Hector | Social Science and Architecture Primer: Activists | |
| Dina Sorenson | LEED AP BD+C, Associate | VMDO Architects | Edge Collaborations: Creative Partnerships with Social Science | |
| Nathan Stodola | Vice President | WELL Building Institute | Designing for People Using Evidence: WELL, LEED and what’s next? | |
| Sharon Sutton | Professor Emerita of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, and Social Work | University of Washington | Social Science & Architecture History Primer | |
| Colette Taber | Founder, Chief Writer | Word Munky | ||
| Linnaea Tillett | Principal | Tillett Lighting Design | Lighting with People in Mind | |
| Dr. Zeynep Turan | Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Program | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice | Fall Film Night: Living Salk Institute | |
| Shin-pei Tsay | Director | Gehl Institute | Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data | |
| Rico Viray | Founding Partner | The Bloc | Summer Social,
Walk the Talk: An Example of Successful Social Science and Design Integration |
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| Kamau Ware | Artist/Historian; Founder | Kamau Studios | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |
| Srdjan_Jovanovic Weiss | Founder; Co-Founder | Normal Architecture Office; School of Missing Studies | Education of an Architect: Incorporating Social Science | |
| Richard Wener | Professor of Environmental Psychology in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at the Tandon School of Engineering | New York University | Exploring the Past, Defining the Future,
Social Science & Architecture History Primer |
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| Sharonda Whatley | MA in City & Regional Planning, District Planner; Core Organizer | Cleveland City Planning Commission; Design As Protest | Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice | |
| Sarah Williams | Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning | MIT | Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data | |
| Matthew Winter | Associate | Rockwell Group | Workplace Design Part II: Coworking | |
| Stephen Yablon | Program, Program, Program,
Myth Busters: Social Research Serving Different Typologies |
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| Katie Yamasaki | Artist and Muralist | Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture | |