During 2023–2024, the School of Architecture hosted two symposia.

Hybrid Urban Factory: Creating the Industrial Community of the Future was held on November 9 and 10, 2023. Now that industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated with other uses at the city and building scale. This potential hybrid is as of yet very little explored. Convened by Nina Rappaport—educator, urbanist, and YSoA publications director—this symposium investigates what this new mix will look like and how it can encourage new entrepreneurs, jobs, and urban forms. How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to be integrated into communities with local entrepreneurs at the helm? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function to encourage mixed-use zoning? Architects, public officials, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations will present a series of case studies and design-driven discussions on policy and making things. 

Speakers included:

Bram Aerts
Kristiaan Borret
Reginald Canal
Brian T. Coleman
Giovanna Fossa
Lindsay Greene
Abby Hamlin
Andrei Harwell
Rob Lane
Dieter Leyssen
Patrick McKenna
Charlie Negaro
Nina Rappaport
Ward Verbakel
Susan Wiviott
Laura Wolf-Powers
Nona Yehia

Shapes of Time was held April 11 through 13, 2024. This two-and-a-half day event at the Yale School of Architecture brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists, architects, curators, scholars, and scientists to investigate the role time plays in their respective fields and in their individual scholarly and creative pursuits. The title hints at the diverse temporal imaginaries in various intellectual fields and artistic media; contemporary conversations about environmental uncertainty and deep time; as well as differing ways time is conceptualized, visualized, and experienced. By taking a trans-disciplinary approach to the ways in which time manifests in different cultures and religions around the globe, Shapes of Time foregrounds time as medium and method. The symposium is convened by Anthony Acciavatti and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen of the Yale School of Architecture together with Morgan Ng of the History of Art department. 

Speakers included:

Anthony Acciavatti
Alice Casey
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Ivano dal Prete
Cian Deegan
Taru Elfving
Saara Ekström
Aaron Flagg
Kathleen John-Alder
Sylvia Lavin
Sarah E. Lawrence
Mari Lending
Morgan Ng
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Francisca Rivero-Lake
Daniel Rosenberg
David Sadighian
Carla Verea