Schedule of Programs:

High-Tech, Low-Tech
Center for Design
9:30 – 11 AM

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In collaboration with the School of Architecture.
Panel discussion with Anthony Averbeck, Demi Fang, Jose Menendez, Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga. Moderated by Alpha Yacob Arsano.

The panel examines how designers and researchers strategically navigate between low-tech and high-tech methods across design scales, geographies, and resource conditions—asking when simplicity is a strength, when complexity is necessary, and how hybrid approaches can generate more resilient, equitable, and climate-responsive architectural futures.

Data Visualization in the Age of AI
Center for Design
12 – 2 PM

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Panel discussion led by Paolo Ciuccarelli and Enrico Bertini.

Data visualization is entering a new phase as AI becomes part of the scene, not as a tool to master but as a presence to negotiate. This session creates space for reflecting on how visual practices may be shifting, bending or resisting new forms of automation and intelligence. It also marks the introduction of Northeastern’s new Visualization (VIS) Center: a place for inquiry, experimentation and shared reflection on reciprocal influences, open tensions and what it means to practice visualization today.

Play Break: Thing from a CoDesigned Future
Center for Design
2:30 – 3:30 PM

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In collaboration with the CoDesign Collaborative.
Workshop led by Aidan Borer.

Dream boldly about the futures we can build (and repair) together.

Join CoDesign Collaborative during Design Research Week for an energizing, hands-on, gamified session. We’ll play “Thing from a CoDesigned Future” and imagine worlds beyond the status quo. In this playful, fast-paced experience, you’ll combine unexpected prompts—future worlds, everyday “things,” areas of impact, and codesign values—to spark fresh ideas about what inclusive, just, and imaginative futures might look like. Play Break will be led by Aidan Borer, Director of Human Insights at Human-ology and Board Chair at CoDesign Collaborative, a nonprofit with a mission to inspire social change through the transformative power of design.

Whether you’re a student, designer, professor, community member, or just future-curious, this session will:

• Introduce a lightweight, participatory game you can use with your own peers or community.
• Encourage joyful, radical imagination about how we can redesign systems and everyday experiences.
• Connect with other change makers who care about designing for equity and belonging.

You’ll leave with:

• Provocative future concepts generated collaboratively in the session.
• A playable digital tool you can keep using in your own work.

Proxies: Open Rehearsal
The Studio Theatre, Curry Student Center
4:30 – 6:30 PM & 7 – 8 PM

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In collaboration with the Department of Theatre.
Workshop and open rehearsal led by Steven Geofrey and Ilya Vidrin.

Join Dr. Ilya Vidrin and Company for an open rehearsal of Proxies, a transdisciplinary dance theatre production at the intersection of dance, music, computation, and information design. Drawing on research in data privacy, loneliness, and ethics of care, Proxies invites the audience to consider not only the limits of what can be captured through technology but also how the fidelity of what is captured may be compromised when moving across kinesthetic, computational, visual, and musical representations. This project brings together a team of collaborators, including CAMD Associate Teaching Professor Steven Geofrey (Art + Design), two multi-instrumentalists, and six professional dancers. See more at Deconstructing Proxies.

Click on each day to view specific event details.

Monday, March 16 – Health + Wellness

Tuesday, March 17 – CAMD Day

Wednesday, March 18 – Media + Play

This is Thursday, March 19 – Tech + Performance

Friday, March 20 – Art + Process