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SUNDAY 12 APRIL 10:00 am ET, 3:00 pm GMT

Sonia de Jager (Erasmus University)

THE POLTERGEIST IN THE MACHINE
Arrows, or weapons that compute

Dr Sonia de Jager offers us a philosophical survey of the most pervasive of devices, from deep history to mathematical notation.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Vr3rwGXNGO4?si=pdQYcNF-OOZq6uoS

https://www.youtube.com/live/gwi9aWk4PUQ?si=gYlLfH0VD7lZD5Bi

Date: April 4
Time: 10:00 AM ET / 3:00 PM GMT
Speaker: George Guida

Join us for a live session with George Guida, Founder and CEO of xFigura.
George is also an Adjunct Professor at Harvard GSD and co-founder of ArchiTAG. In this session, he introduces xFigura, an AI-powered creative canvas for architecture and design that combines text generation, image creation, and 3D model generation on a single platform.

What is xFigura?
xFigura is built to help architects and designers work more fluidly across concepts, images, and 3D form.

Why does it matter?
As AI becomes more embedded in design practice, the real opportunity is not only faster output, but better creative workflows that support exploration, iteration, and design development across multiple media.

This session explores how AI is opening new possibilities for architecture and design.

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DigitalFUTURES Talk: xFigura Date: April 4Time: 10:00 AM ET / 3:00 PM GMTSpeaker: George Guida Join us for a live session with George Guida, Founder and CEO of xFigura.George is also an ...

Crisis? What Crisis?
Sunday 29 March 2026
10:00 am ET; 3:00 pm GMT
Session 3
Albena Yaneva (Politecnico di Torino)
Andrew Ballantyne (University of Newcastle)

This is the third in a series of discussions about the supposed crisis in architectural theory. What has happened to architectural theory? Why does it not have the same force that it used to have? What can be done to rekindle interest in the kind of deep philosophical debates that used to be so central to architectural theory?

Crisis? What Crisis?
Sunday 22 March 2026
10:00 am ET; 2:00 pm GMT
Session 2
Joseph Bedford (Virginia Tech)
Ruo Jia (Pratt Institute)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABpZHpSrft4

This is the second in a series of discussions about the supposed crisis in architectural theory. What has happened to architectural theory? Why does it not have the same force that it used to have? What can be done to rekindle interest in the kind of deep philosophical debates that used to be so central to architectural theory?