AASL Column, February 2024
Barret Havens and Barbara Opar, column editors
AASL would like to invite ACSA conference attendees to one or more of our conference sessions as your time permits. As the conference program below suggests, in keeping with this year’s ACSA conference theme, “Disrupters on the Edge,” AASL will explore innovative practices related to information resources, technologies, and services within architecture school libraries.
The AASL conference will be held at the Sheraton, ACSA’s venue. AASL is assigned a specific hotel conference room. This information will be readily available at our registration desk.
Thursday, March 14
PRESENTATIONS (9:10 – 10:30 AM)
Instructor/Librarian Collaborations: Disrupting Canons, Diversifying Readings, and Demystifying Research
Kristin Barry, Ball State University
Amy Trendler, Ball State University
Zines: The New Generation of Radical Architecture Little Magazines
Lynn Kawaratani, Carnegie Mellon University
Defining Design Research: Environmental Scan of Architecture Librarians Engaging with Design Research
Tess Colwell, Yale University
Writing Support for the Design Disciplines
Nicole Santiago, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
LIGHTNING TALKS (10:45 – 11:45 AM)
Changing Times, Changing Questions: Adapting on the Run
Rebecca Price, University of Michigan Library
Library as a Community Hub
Maya Gervits, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Disruption as Opportunity: How Organizational Change and Uncertainty can Lead to a Sustainable Architectural Archives Program
Kathy Winsor Bohlman, Yale University
Finding Adaptive Reuse Literature in the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Ellen Petraits, Rhode Island School of Design
PRESENTATIONS (2:00 – 3:00 PM)
Disruption in Design: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration Within the Design Thinking Process
Alisha D. Rall, Kansas State University.
Living and Working with Robots: Exploring Ethical Deployments of AI in the Library.
Katie Pierce Meyer, University of Texas at Austin
Nose to Tail: Moving Beyond the Collection to Address the Entire Life of Scholarship
Catherine Essinger, University of Houston
DISCUSSION PANEL (4:00-5:30 PM)
The Editorial Section-Structured around interviews with editors at a variety of architectural journals, this session will discuss perspectives on topics from format and mission to open access and DEI considerations.
Sara Schumacher, Texas Tech University, moderator
Friday, MARCH 15
ACSA / AASL JOINT PRESENTATIONS (2:30 – 4:00 PM)
Moderator: ACSA/ Location TBA
Exo-Skeleton: A Micro Design-Build
Gregory Spaw & Ahmed Ammar, American University of Sharjah
Lee Su Huang University of Florida
Artificial Intelligence Literacy: Collaborating to Support Image Research in Architecture Education
Cathryn Copper & Paul Howard Harrison & Zhenxiao Yang, University of Toronto
Diversifying the Curriculum: Use of Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Education
Nesrine Mansour, South Dakota State University
Artificial Connections: Finding the Architect’s Role in Text-to-Image Tectonics
Nick Safley, Kent State University