Fall 2025 Events
CoDES Lecture Series: Lillian Chin
"Material Matters: Designing Robot Bodies in Dialogue with Computation"
Thursday October 16; 4:30pm; Exley 121
Co-sponsored by The College of Design and Engineering Studies and
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
ABOUT: Lillian Chin is an assistant professor and a Texas Instrument /Jack Kilby Fellow in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in designing robotic bodies and their materials for optimized interaction with their environment through embedded perception and computational design. Lillian received her bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. From 2023-2024, she worked as a Schmidt Science Fellow at the National Institutes of Health under Leo Cohen and Tom Bulea.
CoDES Fall Open House
Friday October 31; 12 noon - 1pm; Exley Science Center Lobby
Interested in Design and Engineering? We'd love to meet you! CoDES Faculty and stidents will be available to share information about our 6 linked Major tracks, 13 Minor concentratios and Dual Degree programs in Engineering.
CoDES swag and Halloween Treats will be shared!
CoDES Lecture Series: Joyce Hsiang
"Terra: Remaking the Earth ”
Tuesday November 4; 4:30pm; Boger 112
Co-sponsored by The College of Design and Engineering Studies, Art Studio’s ‘Samuel C. Silipo’85 Distinguished Visitors Fund’ and the Fries Center for Global Studies
ABOUT: Joyce Hsiang is an architect, urbanist and an assistant professor at Yale School of Architecture. She co-founded Plan B Architecture & Urbanism to anticipate and rehearse new relationships between humans and the earth. She uses architectural methods and cartographic analysis to make worlds that reveal and reflect on the ways humans have urbanized the planet and explore the possibilities of design at the planetary scale. Projects range from installations and buildings to landscapes, urban plans and global models of urbanization. She has exhibited worldwide including the Venice Biennale (2021 & 2025), Lisbon Triennial, Istanbul Biennial, and Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale as well as in Switzerland, Iceland, Abu Dhabi and at universities including Yale, Princeton and Arkansas. Awards include support from Yale Planetary Solutions, the AIA Latrobe Prize, the Graham Foundation, a Macdowell Fellowship, Hines Research Grant for Advanced Sustainability, MacMillan Center, the Franke Program in Science and Humanities as well as the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus.
CoDES Lecture Series: Nabil Ahmed, INTERPRT
"An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air"
Wednesday November 19; 4:30pm; location TBD
Co-sponsored by The College of Design and Engineering Studies, College of the Environment,
Art Studio’s ‘Samuel C. Silipo’85 Distinguished Visitors Fund’ and the College of Science and Technology
An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air presents ten years of research and advocacy from the forensic investigation agency INTERPRT (https://interprt.org), based out of Trondheim, Norway. Using spatial and visual techniques from the fields of architecture and media studies, INTERPRT produces evidence for legal actions, including briefings and petitions to the International Criminal Court. The project, being released as an eBook through Library Stack (https://www.librarystack.org/) is a lexicon of INTERPRT’s applied investigative practices, organized around their conceptual, legal, and methodological frameworks. The concepts section sets out the unique evidentiary challenges of representing environmental destruction. The legal terms situate the crime of ecocide and the standing of the environment within international criminal law and political theory. The methods section charts INTERPRT’s technical and computational approaches to their investigative work. Alongside firsthand descriptions and analyses are included visual materials from their first decade of investigations, providing a working toolkit for practitioners across the environmental justice movement.
ABOUT: Nabil Ahmed is on the faculty of architecture and design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). With Olga Lucko, he leads the research agency INTERPRT (https://interprt.org), which utilizes architectural research, 3D reconstructions, remote sensing and publicly available datasets to investigate environmental destruction and human rights violations. INTERPRT undertakes long-term investigations on behalf of diverse groups, and pursues self-initiated research projects for which they produce advocacy videos, interactive maps and evidence files. INTERPRT collaborates with Climate Counsel, an initiative of former UN lawyers to address the climate emergency, and is a member of Investigative Commons, an initiative of Forensic Architecture. They support the global campaign to make ecocide a fifth international crime.
GAME SESSION with Cody Pietro, "So You Want To Be An American"
Wed 11/19/2025: 4:30pm; location Exley189
Co-sponsored by the College of Education Studies, College of Design and Engineering Studies and The Fries Center for Global Studies
CoDES Lecture Series: Ashley Thrall
"Kinetic Structures for a Resilient Future”
Monday December 1; 4:30pm; Exley 121
Co-sponsored by The College of Design and Engineering Studies and
Art History's ‘Samuel C. Silipo’85 Distinguished Visitors Fund’
ABOUT: Ashley Thrall investigates the behavior, design, and optimization of kinetic civil infrastructure, using analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches. Her research involves kinetic civil infrastructure such as bridges, shelters, and buildings including modular systems that are rapidly moveable, erectable, and deployable.
AY24-25 Past Annoucements :
IDEAS Majors Senior Capstones:
Junior Siguencia '25
IDEAS major linked with Computer Science
Thursday May 1; 4:30pm; Woodhead Lounge
Sebastian Frowein '25
IDEAS major linked with Art Studio
Week 6: April 29-May3, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Bronze Day: A day of demonstrations, talks, and fiery fun celebrating the use of bronze in antiquity and today! Sat April 26
WesFes
CoDES, CIS & IDEAS Lab Info Session for Incoming Freshmen
Wednesday April 16; 1-3:00pm; Exley Lobby
CoDES Faculty Spotlight with Prof. Christopher Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Computational Media
Thursday April 3, 12-1pm; Woodhouse Lounge, Exley Science Center
CoDES Portfolio Fair 2025
Friday March 28, 12-1:30pm; Exley Lobby
CoDES Faculty Spotlight with Prof. Elizabeth Chang-Davidson,
Assistant Professor of Design and Engineering
Thursday March 27, 12-1pm; Boger 113
Sarah Elmalch '07
Thursday March 6, 12-1pm; Albritton 103
CoDES Student Lounge and Textile Hub Grand Opening
Friday February 28; 11:30 - 12:30pm; Fifth Floor of Exley
Talk by Keller Easterling: Medium Design
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
CoDES Alumni Spotlight with Rami Hamati ‘20
Lead Mechanical Design Engineer, SPACEX
Monday, February 24, 12:15 – 1:15pm; Olson Commons, Gordon Career Center
Lecture by Miho Mazereeuw: Design Before Disaster
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 4:30pm;
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Fabricating Fabrics: Design and Computation
Panel Discussion with Victoria Manganiello, Megan Hofmann, Yu Nong Khew & Sonia Roberts: Monday, February 10, 4:30pm; Woodhead Lounge; Exley Science Center
Lecture by Megan Hofmann:
Tuesday, February 11, 4:30pm; Woodhead Lounge; Exley Science Center
Thursday, November 21, 2024, Boger 113, 12:00-1:00pm
CoDES Faculty Spotlight with Camilla Zamboni
Monday, November 18, 2024, Olson Commons, The Gordon Career Center, 12:15-1:15pm
CoDES Alumni Spotlight with Amy Schaap '21
