Felecia Davis is an assistant professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design and Computation at Penn State University. She has lectured, taught workshops, published and exhibited her work in textiles, computation, and architecture internationally, including Microsoft Research and the Media Lab at MIT.

Ronald Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture, in the College of Environmental Design, and the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He is a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, border wall studies, and earthen architecture. He is also a partner in the award-winning design studio, Rael San Fratello, and co-founder of Emerging Objects.

Jenny Sabin is an award-winning architectural designer whose work investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. She is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Sabin has won numerous awards including: Architectural League Prize for Young Architects in 2014 and MoMA & MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in 2017 with her submission, Lumen.

This event will be co-moderated by USC Architecture’s associate professor Doris Sung and associate dean of research & creative work Joon-Ho Choi.