Unprecedented challenges to higher education, overlapping sociopolitical and climate crises, and technological shifts continue to shape architectural education. Now more than ever, educators and practitioners need joint conversations and shared understandings to address our evolving future. Organized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, this session will assemble distinguished educators leading institutions and discourse around AI, equity and access, and community impact in academia. Join us to review case studies and research that reflect shifts in the educational landscape and create space for dialogue around alternative, hybrid, and transdisciplinary futures that invite partnership and collaboration with the profession.
Learning Objectives
- Explore the changing context and landscape for architectural education.
- Discover new approaches to expanding access to education through alternative models for teaching and learning.
- Compare and contrast different models of university-based transdisciplinary collaboration and community outreach that aim at broader systems-level change.
- Learn about the effects of AI on architectural education, and speculate on longer-term impacts.