SAT-A01 - Critical Curiosity: Design Processes That Challenge Norms

Saturday, November 20, 2021

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 207

Compliments of:

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Maura M. Rockcastle, ASLA

Principal and Co-Founder
Ten x Ten
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Speaker(s)

David Seiter, RLA

Founding Principal & Design Director
Future Green Studio
Brooklyn, New York
Rebecca Popowsky, RLA, SITES AP

Research Associate
OLIN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Three practice leaders will share how design research, curious methods and provocative questioning provide a critical foundation for their work. These stories will explore how different scales of practice are challenging the normative environment of professional practice through process-oriented ways of working, engaging, and thinking.

Learning Outcomes:

Explore the fundamental duality within the field at the intersection of art and science.
Understand how various analog, digital, analytical tools, and other curious methods catalyze innovation and grow sets of knowledge around design process, critical research, engagement, and post occupancy evaluation.
Explore case studies of active projects through a sharply focused exploration of process, experimentation, and research.
Understand the successes, challenges and needs of the professional relationships and practice models that are fighting to do this work.