Róisín Heneghan
Livestream or Recording:
To Practice
Róisín Heneghan is an architect and co-founder of heneghan peng architects- hparc, a practice working with landscape, urban planning and architecture with offices in Dublin and Berlin. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from University College Dublin and a master’s in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Hparc’s work has won significant international competitions including the world’s largest realized architectural competition – the Grand Egyptian Museum. The work has been exhibited and published widely including multiple participations at the Venice Biennale. The built work of the practice has been awarded the Aga Khan Award in Architecture, nominated and shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award and twice nominated for the RIBA Stirling Prize.
Built work includes the Palestinian Museum, Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre, Central Park Bridges at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, Museum Tonofenfabrik Lahr and the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Laure Nolte
Livestream or Recording:
Field of Dreams
Laure Nolte is an architectural designer, plant-based materials researcher, artist and educator. Her work spans from the planetary to the molecular scale, exploring multi-faceted relationships at the interface of material behavior and human behavior. Laure is the 2024-25 Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow at Kent State University. She has also taught at Dalhousie University, guest lectured at the University of Washington, and worked professionally at Habit Studio in Halifax, NS and Olson Kundig in Seattle, WA.
Winka Dubbeldam
Livestream or Recording:
Steidl Lecture
Synthetic-Natures
Winka Dubbeldam is the founder [1994] and partner of the WBE certified firm Archi-Tectonics NYC LLC. widely known for their award-winning work, recognized as much for its design excellence as for its use of smart building systems, and innovative structures. Archi-Tectonics recently completed the Asian Games 2023, with a 47 hectare Eco Park and 7 buildings. Recent awards include 2023 CTBUH Award of Excellence, the 2023 Architizer A+ Innovation Award, the Muse Lighting Award, and the prestigious Luban Award for the Asian Games. In New York the 512GW Townhouse won the 2024 SARA Award, the 2023 SARA National Award for the London Solar House, the 2023 AIA award and RTF Futures Award, and the Inscape Meditation Studio won the THA award among others. Their 4th book “Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things” was launched Fall 2021 by Actar, Spain.
Recent Exhibitions include Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial 2024, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, two solo exhibits at the AEDES Gallery Berlin (2019 and 2013), the most recent being Flat Lands & Massive Things - From NL to NYC & Beyond. Several group exhibitions included Archi-Tectonics, such as Unbuilt NY in the Queens Museum, New York (2017), Manhattanisms at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2016), Built by Women, in the AIANY (2015), and The Unprivate House (1999) at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York to name a few.
Professor Dubbeldam is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and was the Chair of the Department of Architecture [2013-23], where she has gathered an international network of innovative research and design professionals. Dubbeldam serves as the RIBA External Examiner for the Architectural Association [2023-25] and did the same for the Bartlett, UCL in London [2018-22], She also serves on the editorial board for the PLAN Journal Italy, the advisory board for Collectible and is one of the creative directors for CityX at the Venice Architecture Biennale [2021 & 2023].
Léa-Catherine Szacka
Livestream or Recording:
Crossed Histories: Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert on Architecture And The City
Léa-Catherine Szacka is Associate Professor in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). Since 2024, she is the vice-president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). Szacka is the author of Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (2016), and of Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display (2019). She is also co-author of Le Concert: Pink Floyd à Venise (2017) and Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture Between History, Politics and Media (2023) and co-editor of Mediated Messages (2018). In 2022, she co-curated the 10th International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam, which also led to the recent publication of It’s About Time: The Architecture of Climate Change (2024).
Belinda Tato
Livestream or Recording:
Landscapes for Empathy, Empathy for Landscapes, Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction
Belinda Tato is an architect, landscape architect and urban designer, co-founder and director of the firm Ecosistema Urbano, founded in 2000 in Madrid. Ecosistema Urbano specializes in urban consultancy, architecture, public space quality assessment and urban transformation processes. Their work has developed around the design of public space focusing on the improvement of bioclimatic conditions in contexts and climates as diverse as Norway, Florida or Bahrain. In parallel, Ecosistema Urbano has been developing participatory tools and techniques to involve citizens in the creative and transforming processes of urban environments.
During the last decade Ecosistema has successfully experimented with social software, communication platforms and the possibilities offered by new technologies to achieve the creation of more democratic urban environments. Since 2000, Ecosistema Urbano has received prizes and awards on more than 50 occasions and their work has been covered by media from more than 40 countries. Belinda Tato has led workshops, lectured and taught at the world's most prestigious institutions. She is currently an Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she has been teaching since 2010.
Lawrence R. Armstrong
Livestream or Recording:
Layered Leadership
Lawrence R. Armstrong is the chair on the Board of Directors for Ware Malcomb. In the spirit of the Renaissance, Armstrong is an admired executive and an accomplished artist whose work is exhibited in multiple galleries. He is a community leader fighting homelessness, a teacher, mentor, and a charitable leader for his alma mater Kent State. Larry’s art has been exhibited around the world for over 10 years at venues such as the Agora Gallery and Grimandi Art Gallery in New York City, the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Galleria 360 in Florence, Italy, SOFA Art Fair in Chicago, Galleria Azur in Madrid, and the Artblend Summer Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, among many others.
Krzysztof Wodiczko – The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series
Livestream or Recording:
The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series
Cultural Prosthetics: Projections and Instrumentations
Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Poland. He is renowned for his large-scale projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 90 projections in 20 countries.
Wodiczko, a former director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, is MIT Professor of Art Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and Visiting Professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since the 1980s, his projections and specifically designed performative instruments engage marginalized city residents in developing and disseminating their public voice and expression. Wodiczko has had major retrospective exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, DOX Art Center, Prague, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, F.A.C.T. Liverpool, M.M.C.A. in Seoul, and many other museums and art cneters. His work has also been exhibited at Documenta (twice), Venice Biennale (Canadian and Polish pavilions), Whitney Biennial, Liverpool Biennale, and other biennales, art festivals and international exhibitions.
Wodiczko received the 4th Hiroshima Art Prize “for his contribution as an international artist to the world peace.” His works are in the public collections of the Hirschhorn Museum, New York MoMA, Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Poland, Macba, Barcelona, Walker Art Cneter, and many other museums and private collections. He received a Ph.D. from Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. He is an author of Critical Vehicles, City of Refuge: Sept. 11, The Abolition of War, The Transformative Avant-Garde, and other books by Black Dog Press (London), including a comprehensive monograph, Krzysztof Wodiczko. His work is also being presented as part of the PBS television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” and “Art 21 Extended Play”. A film, Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art of Un-War, directed by Maria Niro, was released in 2022.
Jonsara Ruth
Reimaging Design through Material Health
Jonsara is a designer, artist, educator, and futurist. She is co-founder of Healthy Materials Lab (HML) at Parsons School of Design and founded Salty Labs, a climate-positive, sustainable design studio. She is also Founding Director of the MFA Interior Design program at Parsons, where she is an Associate Professor.
At HML, Jonsara co-leads a dedicated team of researchers focused on how human health and longevity are affected by materials that surround us. She is a pioneer in the field of Material Health, driving widespread adoption in the architecture and design industry. With over a decade of experience in leading design and manufacturing teams, Jonsara leverages her deep industry knowledge and commitment to democratic design. She is frequently invited to speak about Material Health with mainstream media, professionals and higher education.
Jonsara has received multiple awards, including a nomination for the 2025 Cooper Hewitt Visionary Design Award, RISD’s Art & Design Educator Award in 2023, and the 2022 Women in Architecture Innovation Award from Architectural Record with Alison Mears. Together, they co-edited the publication “Material Health: Design Frontiers,” released in 2023. Jonsara holds a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design.
