Tech + Performance
Events of the Day
High-Tech, Low-Tech
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.
Assistant Professor, Architecture, CAMD; Bridges Fellow, Center for Design
Visiting Associate Professor, Architecture, CAMD
Assistant Professor, Architecture, CAMD
Assistant Professor, Art + Design and Architecture, CAMD
Assistant Professor, Architecture, CAMD
Data Visualization in the Age of AI
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.
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Art + Design, Khoury College of Computer Sciences & CAMD
PhD Candidate, AI & HCI, MIT CSAIL
Partner, Uncharted Software Inc.
Professor, Art + Design, CAMD; Founding Director, Center for Design
Founding Research Engineer, Ridge AI
Director, Human Data Interaction Research, Roux Institute
Play Break: Thing from a CoDesigned Future
Dream boldly about the futures we can build (and repair) together. The CoDesign Collaborative is leading an energizing, hands-on, gamified session. Participants play “Thing from a CoDesigned Future” and imagine worlds beyond the status quo. In this playful, fast-paced experience, 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 is 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. This session introduces a lightweight, participatory game to use with peers or a community in order to encourage joyful, radical imagination about how we can redesign systems and everyday experiences and to connect with other change makers who care about designing for equity and belonging. Participants leave with provocative future concepts generated collaboratively in the session and a playable digital tool to keep using in their own work.
Director of Human Insights, Human-ology; Board Chair, CoDesign Collaborative
Proxies: Open Rehearsal
Dr. Ilya Vidrin and Company led a choreographic workshop, followed by an open rehearsal of Proxies. Proxies is 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.
Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Creative Coding, Art + Design, CAMD
Assistant Professor, Theatre, CAMD
