Good afternoon I am so
pleased to welcome you all here for

this event it's really great to see a
range of students faculty colleagues from

across Georgia Tech practitioners
from the professional community and

alumni in the audience today I'm Julie Kim
and I'm the associate chair in the School

of Architecture back in August I learned
about the College of Architecture

of a culture of research call for
a symposium aimed at highlighting our

collective research work as well as
providing opportunities to connect with

larger academic and practice communities
I'm grateful to the college and

to Nancy Greenlee for providing this
opportunity for symposia like this one and

others to generate critical
discussion amongst our colleagues and

I have a few more thank you I would also
like to thank Scott marble and his support

of this effort as well as Rachel Kellan a
vis jewel in the administrative office for

their assistance I'd also like to
recognize a group of students from our

women in architecture student organization
who are excited to get involved and help

in so many ways as well I really cannot
have done this all without your help so

thank you.

The topic of this impose
IYAM is on metrics data and

measuring results sophisticated knowledge
and skills in the right hands and

minds can empower designers to to
make smarter design choices but

these instruments I don't think are
prescriptive I believe that the balance

lies between the space of the qualitative
and the quantitative between what is

measurable and then what is immeasurable
there are a number of questions and they

began to come to the surface so in this
field of high tech where are the spaces

for the ephemeral the unquantifiable
in an arena that is driven by data and

computation when so much emphasis
is placed on metric driven does

the decision making how do we
maintain our creative curiosity and

place value to the artistic
ambitions of our discipline how.

Can technology not prescribe but rather
leverage and amplify the articulation

of the thoughtfully considered
design artifact in fact for

myself I'm interested in remain interested
in engaging in an architectural design

process that is a balance of desire
that's weighed against fact because I

believe that architecture depends on
this balance between the real and

the imaginary where the real might
be based on impaired dollars or

things like sites type ology program but
the imaginary is not so rational and

they can't be necessarily quantified but
the two parts they rely on each other

because without the imaginary part you
could possibly end up with a predictable

solution but on the other hand without
the realities you risk an irrelevant and

a self-referential solution so
it seems that our challenge is to develop

a robust analytic model that integrates
both the real and the imaginary

that things that are tangible as well
as those that are perceptual and

other words to find the places of
the both rather than the either or.

This symposium is an opportunity to bring
together five incredible thought leaders

to hear them just to discuss the
challenges of making qualitative decisions

and a world when so much is driven by
these metrics to Palance to balance their

artistic ambitions against metric driven
does the decision making and other words

asking the question just because the data
points to this is a particular solution

does that always mean it's the best one
what about things that can't be measured

what about things that are about
the experience or the intangible so

fundamentally that I think that will
happen from this conversation is really

one that talks about what are some of the
new design methodology that emerged from

this data driven programs let me pause
here and introduce Michelle Addington and

Dyson Sheila Kennedy Jennifer Clark and
Beth Minet.

Michelle Abington is one.

Science professor of sustainable
architectural design at Yale University

and is that educated both as an architect
and as an engineer her teaching and

research explore energy systems advanced
materials and new technologies building on

her dissertation research on the discrete
control of boundary layer heat transfer

using micro machines she has extended her
work to define the strategic relationships

between different scales of energy
phenomena and the possible actions from

the domain of building construction she
coauthored the book smart materials and

technologies for architecture and design
and she just recently published emerging

technologies Michelle is hot a Harvard
University for ten years before she joined

in two thousand and six and in two
thousand and nine architect magazine

selected Michelle as one of the country's
top ten faculty in architecture.

And Dyson and as the director of
the Center for architecture science and

ecology a collaboration between Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Skidmore Owings

and Merrill in addition and as a professor
who teaches design technology and

theory at the School of
Architecture at Rensselaer

she is the founding director of case which
is committed to bridging diverse worlds by

proposing a new collaborative model for
building research

that unites interdisciplinary
academic research with building and

development practices the consortium
attempts achieve this collaborative model

by considering building science pursuits
integrated with the aesthetic social and

conceptual aspirations of architectural
design inquiry and holds multiple

international patents for building systems
inventions and is currently directing

interdisciplinary research is funded by a
number of different foundations including

the National Science Foundation and
the Department of Energy.

Sheila Kennedy F.I.A.
is a principal of Kennedy and.

An internationally recognized design
practice that explores architecture

digital technology and

emerging public needs designated as one
is Fast Company's masters of design.

She was described as an insightful and
original thinker who was designing new

ways of working learning leading
in innovating she was known for

creative problem definition and
concept creation strategy for

clients she also directs Matt X.
the Materials Research Unit at Kennedy

village Matt exports collaboratively with
business leaders manufacturers cultural

institutions and public agencies to create
designs that advanced the integration of

new in traditional materials and material
fabrication technologies techniques in

architecture today Matt X. has developed
designs and technology applications for

Du Pont Siemens Herman Miller The North
Face Federal Republic of Germany and

the United States Department of Energy
the portable light project was a nonprofit

Global Initiative that enabled enables
people in developing world to create

an own portable energy harvesting
solar textile kids was recognized

with a two thousand and twelve energy
Globe award a two thousand and nine U.S.

congressional war a two thousand and nine
energy Globe Award and a two thousand and

eight Tech Museum Laurie award for
technology that benefits humanity

all three of our guests they talk about
architecture and they explore the gauge

of the discipline of architecture that
builds cultural rough relevance to our

discipline I'm very excited to
hear them speak more about this.

Are to respond as who will join
the discussion following the presentations

Jennifer Clark for us to introduce is
a director of Georgia Tech Center for

Urban innovation and
an associate professor in the School of

Public Policy Jennifer publishes work on
the development and diffusion of urban and

regional policies and
their effect on cities and

their economic resilience she has worked
on a research on regional economic policy

projects with a broad range of
organizations including the U.K. and U.S.

governments Beth mine it is the executive
director of the Institute for

people and technology and a professor in
the college computing here if you were to

tag her research program
every day compute.

Examines the human computer interface
implications of having computation

continuously present in many
aspects of everyday life

her research contributes
to ongoing work and

personal health information computer
support a collaborative work and

human computer interface design Beth has
created new technologies that support

the independence and quality of life
of older adults aging in place and

that also increase her creative
collaboration and workplaces so

the structure of the symposium
is that Michelle and

Sheila in that order well each offer
presentations about thirty minutes or so

apiece following their presentations and
Jennifer and Beth will join them in

the front for an open discussion I will
moderate this discussion will also open it

to questions from all of you I am so
very excited to hear about the innovative

research in the creative production of the
work of these design leaders operating at

that intersection of architecture
of art of culture and technology.

Please join me and
well for me are panelists.