SCHEDULE
A Final Schedule has been published as of February 18, 2026. Details subject to change.
Unless otherwise noted, all conference programming will take place on the UNM Campus in George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture and Planning
8:00 - 5:00 | Registration | George Pearl Hall Lobby (2401 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM)
9:00- 10:30 | SESSION 4
4A: COMPUTATIONAL MAKING
Location: GPH P135A / Moderator: Blake Mitchell
Architectural Composition in the Third Machine Age — Jeff Balmer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Michael T. Swisher (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Teaching Computational Thinking through Making Processes and Digital Modeling — Farzaneh Oghazian (Louisiana State University)
[Project]ion: Mapping Music and Movement through “Myself” in Foundational Design — Kristin M. Barry, PhD (Ball State University), Adriana Elser (Ball State University)
Dormant Projective Intelligence — Keith Peiffer (Oklahoma State University)
Crafting Agency: Hybrid Pedagogies for Beginning Design in the Age of Automation and GenAI — Pedro Veloso (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Alyssa Kuhns (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Kate McLean (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
4B: PLURAL KNOWING
Location: GPH P133 / Moderator: Susan Kliman
Projective Environments: Toward Indigenous Futurisms in the Beginning Design Classroom — Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchell (Oklahoma State University)
DATA (GREEN) HOUSE: Teaching AI Through Architectural Ecologies — Benjamin Ennemoser (Texas A&M University)
Show Me, Tell Me, Draw Me! Fostering Agency in Representation, in a Time of Plurality — Angela Rose Bracco (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Biomes, Behaviors, and Built Form: Rethinking Studio Pedagogy for Ecological Futures — Terri Bullard (University of Oklahoma), Deborah Richards (University of Oklahoma)
Incorporating Philanthropy into an Introductory Design Thinking Course: Cultivating Empathy, Civic Engagement, and Socially Conscious Problem-Solving — Taylor Metz (Ball State University), Eric Mainzer (Ball State University)
4C: DESIGN PATHWAYS
Location: GPH P104 / Moderator: Sana Ahrar
High School Architecture Pedagogy: Best Practices in Connecticut — Theodore R. Sawruk (University of Hartford), Rebeccah Tuscano-Moss (Westminster School)
From Drafting to Design Thinking: Reimagining High School Design Education — Kirby Barrett (Kansas State University), Aaron Finck (Maize South High School)
Imagining Slowly — Amy Rakich (University of Idaho), Hala Barakat (Washington State University)
Education Psychology and the Internalization of Design Education — Stephen Temple (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Aligning Neurodiversity Teaching Strategies within Beginning Design Studio — Jeremy Merrill, PhD (Ball State University)
4D: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderators: Stathis Yeros and Carla Brisotto
Composing Landscape through Diagrams — Kathleen Kambic (University of New Mexico)
Integrating Regional Ecological Literacy into Spatial Design — Erin Percevault (Purdue University)
Between Land and Water: An Architecture of Cohabitation — Gabriel Tenaya Kaprielian (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
The Ecologies Unit — Kelly Homan (Auburn University)
Grounded Learning: The Role of Context in Early Design Education — Meghan Mick (Florida State University), Kelley Robinson (Florida State University)
Grounding Architecture: On the Importance of Ground in Beginning Design Education — Katherine M. Boles (University of New Mexico).
California Road Trip: Adaptive reuse and new regionalism — Amy Campos (California College of the Arts)
Seeing Landscapes as Poetry — Bambi Yost (Iowa State University)
Designing the Transfer: Community College Pathways into Architectural Education in New Mexico — Emmanuel R. Moreno (Pre Architecture Doña Ana Community College), David Miertschin (Central New Mexico Community College, University of New Mexico), Kristina Yu (University of New Mexico), McCLAIN + YU Architecture & Design
Grounded Beginnings - Teaching Design Through Culture and Place — Armando Araiza (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Public Murals, Abstraction, and the Built Environment — Tiffany Lin (Tulane University)
Designing for the Ephemeral - Adam Molinski (Auburn University), Yufan Gao (Boston Architectural College)
Inside While Looking Out: Designing with the Ground — Nimet Anwar (Syracuse University)
10:45 - 12:15 | SESSION 5
5A: SCALE: FROM WEARABLE TO PLANETARY
Location: GPH P135A / Moderator: Jared Macken
Market of No Sleep: Speculative Foundations for Beginning Design Pedagogy — Madalyn Asker (University of Illinois).
Dystopian Science Fiction Worlds: How They Affect Beginning Design Students’ Perceptions of Tomorrow’s Built Environment — Nicholas E. Wickersham (North Dakota State University)
When Interiors Walk: Teaching the Wearable Interior — Deborah Schneiderman, PhD (Pratt Institute)
Integrating Learning Outcomes and Pedagogy into Team Building Exercises Using Gamification — Matthew Nicolette (Clemson University), Sallie Hambright-Belue (Clemson University), Jiachun Yao (Clemson University)
Scaling Intimacy: Adapting the Traditional Studio Model Amid Expanding Enrollment and Limited Resources — Deborah Ku (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
5B: GENERATIVE HYBRIDS
Location: GPH P133 / Moderator: Virginia Melnyk
Toward a Hybrid Ecology of Representation: Teaching Archi...in the Age of Digital and Analog Convergence — Alejandro Borges (Texas A&M University)
Image, Mesh, Matter: On the Phygital Drift of Generative Machines — Eilis Finnegan (Auburn University)
the ‘Other’ Pedagogies / Kitbashing Architecture / Circularity — Irem Sezer (Texas A&M University)
Reframing Structures: Engaging Students Through Vocabulary, Concepts, Collaboration, and Play — Brittany Taplin (North Dakota State University)
Generative Narratives: Speculative Futures for Collective Living — Sara Codarin (Lawrence Technological University)
5C: MEANING MAKING
Location: GPH P104 / Moderator: David Miertschin
Designing With the Land: Cultivating Agency in Early Architecture Education— Hala Barakat (Washington State), Md. Rakib Hasan (Washington State University)
Caoineadh — Mark McGlothlin (University of Florida)
Who is at your tea party? Diagramming Research — Catherine Page Harris (University of New Mexico)
Collaboration in the Classroom — Erin Carraher (University of Utah)
Demonstration of Knowledge: Student-Centered Design Education Through Performance Practice — Steven Chodoriwsky (University of Utah)
5D: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderators: Zach Seibold and Terri Bullard
Digital Pin-Ups and Collaborative Process: Using Miro to Visualize Design Thinking in Studio — Rebecca Midden (Columbia College Chicago), René King (Columbia College Chicago)
Different Environment, Different Experience, Different Outcome: Maybe We Don’t Learn Best in a Classroom — Daniel Moore (Louisiana Tech University)
Engagement on a Historic Level: How Illustrations have changed the Industrial Design History Mindset — Matthew Obbink (Iowa State University)
Original Landscapes: Building a Project with an Image — Jonathan L. Stitelman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Portable Landscapes: Digital Collage for Beginning Design Students — Taylor Metz (Ball State University)
A Case of the Literals and the loss of Sagacity — Kristopher Palagi (Louisiana State University)
Purposeful Wandering: Engaging Students for a Successful Site Visit — Louise Cheetham Bordelon (University of Colorado, Denver)
Ritual Spaces: Cultivating Cultural Curiosity and Deep Engagement in Early Design Education — Stephen Skorski (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
From Passage to Place: Reconsidering the Corridor— Katie Stranix (University of Virginia)
From Biji to Zilbadone: The Sketchbook as a Heaping — Andrew Liles (Tulane University)
Layered Light: The Model as an Instrument for Simulation — Charles De Lay Jones (American University of Sharjah)
12:30 - 1:45 | Lunch Break | George Pearl Hall / 1st Floor Crit Bridge and Gallery
1:45 - 3:15 | SESSION 6
6A: DESIGNING TOGETHER
Location: GPH P135A / Moderator: Angela Bracco
Reframing the Foundation: Curricular Projection Across Disciplines — Kristin M. Barry (Ball State University), Abhinandan Bera (Ball State University), Lori Pence (Ball State University)(Ball State University), Abhinandan Bera (Ball State University)
Introducing a Core Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum in Environmental Design — Neal Evers (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Designing for Difference: Cultivating Empathy and Curiosity in Beginning Interior Design Education — Ingrid A. Schmidt (University of Kentucky)
An Update To The Exquisite Corpse- William Philemon (Central Piedmont Community College)
Original Landscapes: Building a Project with an Image — Jonathan L. Stitelman (Washington University in St. Louis)
6B: EXPERIENTIAL FOUNDATIONS
Location: GPH P133 / Moderator: Maxwell Fertik
Material Misuse: Ethical Foundations in Early Architectural Education — Peter Hind (University of Kansas)
Experiential Learning as a Mechanism for Teaching Bioclimatic Design and Cultural Competency: Lessons Learned through Four Years of Student Travel to the Desert Southwest — David A. Crutchfield (North Dakota State University), Susan Schaefer Kliman (North Dakota State University)
On Reading Adobe — Andrea Alberto Dutto (University of Idaho)
Building (v) Performance, Projective Acts between Artifact and Representation — Michael Frush (Oklahoma State University)
Local Knowledge: Rethinking Material Practices Informing Design — Santiago R. Perez (Florida A&M University)
6C: TERRITORIES
Location: GPH P104 / Moderator: Jess Vanecek
Situated Practice and the Slow Reading of Landscape in Beginning Design Education — Sarah Coleman (Auburn University), Frank Hu (Auburn University)
Territorial Curiosity — Zahra Safaverdi (Washington University in St. Louis)
In Excess: An Idea Machine for Designing with Change — Kristi Cheramie (Ohio State University)
From Domestic to Urban and Back: Teaching Housing Typologies through Material, Ecological, and Artificial Intelligence Frameworks — David Jimenez Iniesta (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Texas A&M), Maria de los Angeles Peñalver Izaguirre (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Texas A&M), Benjamin Ennemoser (Texas A&M University), James Michael Tate (Texas A&M University), Weiling He (Texas A&M Unviersity), Hans Steffes (Texas A&M University), and Shirley Chen (University of Colorado Denver).
Designing with the Ground: Teaching Landscape as an Active Partner in Early Architectural Education — Marc-Eduard Ihle (Texas A&M University)
6D: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderator: Omar Ali and Hannah Berryhill
Compassionate Critique: Designing Feedback Ecologies in Beginning Design Education — Jennifer Meakins (University of Kentucky), Hannah Dewhirst (University of Kentucky)
Introducing Students to Design Practice: Bridging Design Vision and Reality Through the Simulated RFP Process— Mark Rukamathu (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Between Ideal and Practice: Time Management's Place in Architecture Schools — Audrey Hampton (University of Oklahoma), Madeline Maker (Oklahoma State University)
Teaching Through Research: Experiential Learning in Design Education — Amanda Gale (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Derek Toomes (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Helen Turner (University of Kentucky)
Fostering Collaboration Between Architecture and Interior Design: Planting Seeds for Future Professionals — Brittany Taplin (North Dakota State University), Aletha M. Lippay (North Dakota State University), Nicholas E. Wickersham (North Dakota State University)
Fundamentals of Computational Cartography — Nate Imai (University of San Francisco), Matt Conway (University of California - Berkeley)
Reimagining Foundations: Reflective Pedagogies in the First-Professional Architecture Studio— Sana Ahrar (North Carolina State University), Thomas Barrie (North Carolina State University)
Expanding Where Design Begins: A University-wide Honors Sequence in Human-Centered Design — Pat Akos (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), James David Matthews (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
MADE IN NEW MEXICO: The Potential of Early Design Education as Cultural and Economic Infrastructure — Kristina Yu (University of New Mexico, McCLAIN+YU Architecture & Design), Sasha Adams (McCLAIN+YU Architecture & Design)
Making Room: Spatial Encounters in Early Design Education — Amy Rakich (University of Idaho) , Tharique De Silva (University of Idaho)
Figures in Figures in a Field: Expanding the Potential of the Kit-of-Parts — Kevin Mitchell (American University of Sharjah), Samar Halloum (American University of Sharjah), Dalia Hamati (American University of Sharjah), William Sarnecky (American University of Sharjah)
Persistent Worlds: Leveraging Game Engines for Spatially- Consistent Generative AI Workflows— Lee-Su Huang (Lawrence Technological University), Sara Codarin (Lawrence Technological University), Masataka Yoshikawa (Lawrence Technological University)
3:30 - 4:30 | NCBDS Annual Meeting / NCBDS42 Announcement | George Pearl Hall Auditorium
6:00 - 10:00 | Closing Dinner | Fusion (708 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102) / featuring Nosotros
Thursday, February 26
Location: George Pearl Hall
2401 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM
12:00 - 5:00 | Registration
Afternoon | Early Academics’ Retreat or
Earth Building and Restoration Workshop
6:00 - 8:00 | Opening Reception
Friday, February 27
Location: George Pearl Hall
2401 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM
8:00 - 5:00 | Registration
Daytime | Paper and Project Sessions
5:00 - 7:00 | Reception + Keynote Panel
Designing with Community: Reflections on Pedagogy, Practice, and Partnership
Saturday, February 28
Location: George Pearl Hall
2401 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM
8:00 - 5:00 | Registration
Daytime | Paper and Project Sessions
6:00 - 10:00 | Evening | Closing Dinner
Fusion (708 1st St NW, ABQ, NM )
featuring Nosotros
Sunday, March 1
Excursions
Details to come!
George Pearl Hall
2401 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
For Friday and Saturday events