Pioneering Biomaterials Symposium
Jan
21
to Feb 14

Pioneering Biomaterials Symposium

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Pioneering Biomaterials: Academia and Industry Convergence 2025 
Presented by the Architectural Ecologies Lab and the Digital Craft Lab 
Join us for the 5th Annual CCA & Autodesk Technology Center Academic Alliance Symposium
“Pioneering Biomaterials” at the California College of the Arts (CCA) this Spring 2025. This event will feature a 4-week exhibition and a two-day symposium, bringing together a diverse collection of biomaterials research from academia, laboratories, startups, and industries.
Discover innovative biomaterials projects and research from leading experts and industries in the field.

Exhibition Date:  January 21 - February 15, 2025
Symposium Date: February 13-14, 2025

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The Future is Fluid: SF Film Festival w/ AEL exhibition
Apr
17
5:00 PM17:00

The Future is Fluid: SF Film Festival w/ AEL exhibition

Please join us this Wednesday April 17th from 5-6PM at Pier 1 where the Architectural Ecologies lab will be exhibiting selected marine prototype projects including a live oyster panel from the Presidio Marsh CulvertReef and projecting plankton from the Bay from the ongoing Living DataPod project (in collaboration with Stanford’s Prakash Lab). This event is part of the 10th anniversary of the SF Urban Film Fest: Rooted Resurgence! Following the exhibit, from 6-8 will be a screening of the hybrid-genre film, "Holding Back the Tide." A panel discussion including AEL co-director Margaret Ikeda will follow the showing.

This year's festival aims to spark conversation about San Francisco's burgeoning resurgence with an emphasis on community and equity, highlighting folks who constantly rework and regenerate social and physical infrastructure with possibility and positivity. Information regarding tickets and registration is available on the San Francisco Urban FilmFestival's 2024 website.#SFUFF #SFUrbanFilmFest #SFUFF2024 #RootedResurgence #architecturalecologieslab 

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BioMaterials: Designing across scale
May
16
3:00 PM15:00

BioMaterials: Designing across scale

Please join us on Tuesday, May 16 @ 3pm Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall for a presentation BioMaterials - Designing Across Scales. This collaboration between UCSF & California College of the Arts will be featured in the 2023 Biodesign Challenge Presentation in New York City in June. Students and faculty at CCA and UCSF will present their ongoing research and how opportunities might emerge for developing methods of extruded fabrication of architectural components based on the microscopic biological systems of shell building. This event, part of the Academic Alliance between CCA, UCSF & Autodesk Technology Center, brings together designers and research professionals to investigate the potential of biomaterials to reduce embodied carbon in building components. Design team: Claire Lefiler, Kimia Barn Farahnak & Conrad Scheepers [CCA] Fredrick Leon & Elizabeth Martinez-Bond [UCSF]. Instructors: Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones & Negar Kalantar [CCA] Dyche Mullins [UCSF].

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ECOPOESIS Keynote: Jenny Odell
Apr
14
6:00 PM18:00

ECOPOESIS Keynote: Jenny Odell

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Please join us on Thursday, April 14, for a talk by multidisciplinary artist and author Jenny Odell, keynote for the 2022 Ecopoesis gathering. The Ecopoesis Project is a multi-year sequence of collaborative think-tanks exploring front-line concerns around ecology, climate, and spatial expression. As our everyday lives are increasingly suffused by the impacts of climate change and climate chaos, The Ecopoesis Project explores the language, syntax, diction, form, media, and representations of ecological uncertainty. Odell will deliver a public keynote talk reflecting on these themes as well as the outputs of the 2022 Ecopoesis workshop, an interdisciplinary gathering taking place the weekend before.

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Lab Talk: Shelby Doyle, "Digital Craft as Feminist Practice"
Feb
14
11:00 AM11:00

Lab Talk: Shelby Doyle, "Digital Craft as Feminist Practice"

As part of the Spring 2022 ‘Ecological Tectonics’ seminar led by Adam Marcus and Alex Schofield, Shelby Doyle of Iowa State University will give a guest lecture on her innovative research with 3d-printed ceramics. Doyle is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Stan G. Thurston Professor of Design Build at the Iowa State University College of Design, co-founder of the ISU Computation & Construction Lab (CCL), and director of the ISU Architectural Robotics Lab (ARL).

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HOW WE HEAR NOW at San Francisco Ferry Building
Jun
25
to Jul 10

HOW WE HEAR NOW at San Francisco Ferry Building

How We Hear Now is a participatory, collective artwork created by The ECOPOESIS Project, a multi-year initiative led by the Architectural Ecologies Lab and MFA in Writing program at California College of the Arts. The project was initiated in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a response by the Ecopoesis Project to continue their collaborative explorations of emotions and thought towards action around climate change. It will be on view as a large-scale public projection at the San Francisco Ferry Building from June 25 to July 10, 2021.

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The Impact of Youth Voices in Community Planning
Mar
19
10:00 AM10:00

The Impact of Youth Voices in Community Planning

How do the voices of children, youth, and community members shape our neighborhoods?

Join us and participate in a discussion with a panel of community engagement practitioners to delve into San Francisco Planning’s approach to engagement, detail how we’ve adapted our engagement during Stay at Home Order, and share our successes engaging with children and youth in partnership with Y-PLAN.

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Virtual Exhibition — I Am Islais: Visions for Environmental Justice Now!
Mar
16
to May 16

Virtual Exhibition — I Am Islais: Visions for Environmental Justice Now!

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This exhibition is a window into how 4th graders from Malcolm X Academy in Bayview Hunters Point were given a remote platform in the 2020 fall semester, through the creativity of their teacher, Y-PLAN, SF NOMA and SF Planning, to be valued leaders of environmental justice in their community. It is also a model of how college students of architecture, from the California College of the Arts, learned to engage with these 4th graders, to listen to them, and to give a voice to their experience through practical and inspired architectural actions.

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Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Launch
Sep
21
1:00 PM13:00

Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Launch

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Witness history being made in the San Francisco Bay! Come celebrate the launch of the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a cutting-edge prototype for climate adaptation research that creates habitats for diverse sea animals in the middle of San Francisco Bay! The Center for Impact and Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts are hosting a public launch celebration at Oakland’s Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, on Saturday, September 21st. The event will feature a community hot dog picnic, a marching band, DIY kite-making and coloring, and remarks by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, project supporters, and stakeholders. All are invited!

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Lecture: Architectural Ecologies Lab in the Maldives
Jul
24
8:30 PM20:30

Lecture: Architectural Ecologies Lab in the Maldives

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Join AEL Professors Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones, and Leslie Carol Roberts with Dr. John Oliver from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories for a lecture at Maldives National University on the work of the Architectural Ecologies Lab. During their research trip to the Maldives, the team will present the Buoyant Ecologies and Ecopoesis research projects.

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Towards Sentience: Leif Estrada Lab Talk
Apr
18
11:30 AM11:30

Towards Sentience: Leif Estrada Lab Talk

CCA B.Arch alumnus Leif Estrada will present his research that spans fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and technology. Estrada will present his project “Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River’s Fluvial Morphology,” thesis research completed at Harvard Graduate School of Design. The project leverages advanced workflows of computation, ecological simulation, and real-time sensing in the design of a robotic machine that continually attunes the L.A. River.

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