ASSOCIATE DEAN’S NOTE The sixth volume of Atmosphere celebrates the school’s continued growth and development and frames the breadth of inspired learning that spans the SoAD’s twelve design centered academic programs. The exemplary student projects presented in this publication were developed in the light of the fading global pandemic, and in the face of the emergent prospects of artificial intelligence enhanced learning and teaching. This document celebrates the unique creative spirit and continued evolution of our community’s proactive and intrepid embrace of discovery through focused inquiry. It is also evidence of the vibrant evolution of the interdisciplinarity and team-teaching learning model that defines our creative culture and diverse supportive community. The consistent shared engagement that sustains the collegial spirit across the school’s three departments continues to foster more focused commitment into optimizing life affirming imperatives and principles for enhancing our social, built and natural environments. The increased acceleration of cultural, technological, and environmental change urge the advancement of heightened design agencies and imperatives through algorithmic speculation, computational visualization scenarios and predeterminable outcomes. Generative design practices, enhanced machine thinking and learning and cloud memory beckon our holistic contemplation to think forward, beyond our reflective present state of affairs, as we usher in new freshmen students and congratulate this year’s graduating class and endeavor to redefine our practices and approaches for envisioning the best of all possible future worlds.
Anthony Caradonna, RA Associate Dean for Academic Operations and Professor School of Architecture and Design New York Institute of Technology
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