Schedule of Programs:

Entangle Designathon
Center for Design
9:30 – 11 AM

Registration details coming soon.

In collaboration with Scout.

As a part of Interventions: Entangle and in partnership with the Center for Design, this Designathon invites students to explore the conference theme, Entangle, through a collaborative design process. Working in teams of 2–4, participants will create in response to a prompt connected to the relationships between humans, technologies and environments across interconnected systems.

Teams will move through research, ideation and prototyping to examine how interactions shape the world around us. This is an opportunity to experiment with design as a way to understand complex, intertwined processes and systems. There will be a kick-off and brainstorming session on Friday morning at the Center for Design, followed by a day and a half to work on the project. The final presentations to the judges will take place at Interventions: Entangle on Sunday afternoon in ISEC, followed by the closing ceremony where prizes will be awarded!

Discovery-Oriented Design or How To Invent in Unexplored Territory
Raytheon Amphitheater
11:30 AM – 1 PM

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Presentation by Andy Cavatorta.

Artist and Engineer Andy Cavatorta shares the process that empowers his studio to deliver ambitious projects in diverse territories like arcade games, musical instruments, kinetic sculpture and theatrical set design. Research, ideation, and prototyping happen concurrently through dozens of fast iterations. Come learn how to recognize the Speculation Barrier, how to quickly navigate the Dark Forest of Possibilities, and the importance of fake rules.

Processing Data: just practice and Cara Michell in Conversation
Raytheon Amphitheater
2 – 4 PM

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In collaboration with the Center for the Arts, Gallery 360 and just practice.
Conversation between Cara Michell, Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien.

Join Gallery 360 and the Center for the Arts for a conversation between The Data at Hand exhibiting artists Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien of just practice with Northeastern’s Cara Michell. By weaving data into material form in their series Soft City and Touching Toxicity on view in Gallery 360, Ugorji and Weston Chien invite viewers to imagine planning processes grounded in care, participation, and ecological justice.

Presented as part of Design Research Week 2026, this program will explore how structural inequities become embedded in ecological systems and the built environment and how creative practice research can model approaches to urban-scale thinking that move beyond top-down decision-making, centering the lived experiences and spatial knowledge of residents as essential to imagining more just futures.

Click on each day to view specific event details.

Monday, March 16 – Health + Wellness

Tuesday, March 17 – CAMD Day

Wednesday, March 18 – Media + Play

Thursday, March 19 – Tech + Performance

This is Friday, March 20 – Art + Process