Generating AI's History through Architecture
Join CBI for a talk with Research Fellow and CEO and President of the American Swedish Institute Molly Wright Steenson, Ph.D., as she presents "Generating AI's History through Architecture."
Lunch provided starting at 11:30 a.m.
Abstract:
Generative AI has an architectural history that extends back to the early 60s, with the same dynamics and questions we're asking today. In this talk, Molly Wright Steenson traces the earliest, generative collaborations between architects and AI researchers using this history as a fulcrum for our contemporary moment, with a reflection on power, ethics, and craft.
Bio:
Molly Wright Steenson, PhD, is the CEO and President of the American Swedish Institute, a nearly 100-year old museum and cultural center in Minneapolis that brings people together, through a Swedish lens, to experience and create (a very non-AI place to be!). She is the author of Architectural Intelligence: How Architects & Designers Created the Digital Landscape (MIT Press, 2017).
Molly is the former Vice Provost for Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a tenured associate professor in the School of Design, and the inaugural K&L Gates Associate Professor in Ethics & Computational Technologies.
She holds a PhD in Architecture from Princeton University and a Master's in Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture, and is a fellow with the Charles Babbage Institute at the U of M.
