Please join us Wednesday, October 18th at 5:30PM for a lecture at the CUDC featuring Sharon Wohl, Associate Dean of Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
In-person event at the CUDC with Zoom Livestream
Reception / light dinner at 5:30pm | Lecture at 6pm
Dr. Wohl's presentation will focus on both her research and advocacy work, exploring strategic ways in which design advocacy work can elevate the role of designers, and new potentials for integrating technologies into the built environment - with an emphasis on how technological enabled built interfaces (Internet of Things) can create more adaptive, responsive living environments.
Sharon Wohl’s research considers how cities operate as Complex Adaptive Systems and how certain characteristics of urban form can support an urban environment's capacity to self-organize, enabling emergent features to appear that, while unplanned, remain highly functional.
Dr. Wohl holds a Masters degree in Architecture and a PhD in Spatial Planning and Strategy from Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. Her research examines how principles of complex adaptive systems can be operationalized within the built environment, with a focus on urban systems. Her expertise in complexity has been recognized in various ways: through a research fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam, a group dedicated to cross-disciplinary investigations into complex systems, as well as invitations for a range of speaking/guest lecture events.
As of the summer of 2023, she joined Kent State University as Associate Dean in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Previously, she served as Interim Associate Dean for the College of Design at Iowa State University, where she was also the named FRK Faculty Fellow. Prior to moving to the United States, she practiced with the award winning Winnipeg-based architectural firm, 5468796 Architecture. She was also a founding board member of Storefront Manitoba, a design advocacy group that aims to build public awareness and appreciation for the role of design.
One AICP Certification Maintenance credit is available for this session.
