Today I’m serving as guest critic at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for Robert Gerard Pietrusko’s “Conspiracy as Method” final review. Past work from this popular Landscape Architecture course has been experimental, fun, and insightful—“serious play” as it were.

Meeting in the Weitzman School of Design, we’ll review each group’s short film; the culmination of their semester’s efforts. Each film is composed of three chapters: An investigation of a chosen “natural” disaster, a resultant conspiracy theory (either existing or fabricated for the purposes of this course), and a speculative design proposal for a future institution arising from the group’s constructed context.

Today I’m in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a guest speaker for the annual HarvardXR conference hosted by Harvard University. This year’s theme, “Extended Intelligence”, focuses on the convergence of AI and XR at Harvard and beyond.

HarvardXR’s goal is to provide a platform for students, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs to discuss how XR is shaping the future across different industries. I will be speaking at 2:20pm this afernoon in Room A: 1.321 as part of the Immersive Reality session, anchored by the legendary creative technologist, Bradley Munkowitz (AKA “GMUNK”). See the complete Speakers list.