SCHEDULE
The Preliminary Schedule has been published as of January 12, 2026. Details are 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
9:00 - 5:00 | Registration | George Pearl Hall Lobby
9:00- 10:30 | SESSION 4
4A: COMPUTATIONAL MAKING
Location: GPH TBD / 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 Barry (Ball State University), Adriana Elser (Ball State University)
Dormant Projective Intelligence — Keith Peiffer (Oklahoma State University)
4B: PLURAL KNOWING
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: Susan Kliman
Three 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 TBD / Moderator: Sana Ahrar
High School Architecture Pedagogy: Best Practices in Connecticut — Theodore R. Sawruk (University of Hartford), Rebeccah Tuscano-Moss (Westminster School)
Red + Green = Yellow: Color Mixing and Intuition — Edward Robert Charbonneau (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
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 Beginning Design Education — Stephen Temple (University of Texas at San Antonio)
4D: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderator: Stathis Yeros
Composing Landscape through Diagrams — Kathleen Kambic (University of New Mexico)
Integrating Regional Ecological Literacy — Erin Percevault (Purdue University)
Between Land and Water: An Architecture of Cohabitation — Gabriel 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 Boles (University of New Mexico)
California Road Trip: Adaptive reuse and new regionalism — Amy J. Campos (California College of the Arts)
Seeing Landscapes as Poetry — Bambi L. Yost (Iowa State University)
Building Pathways: Collaboration and Curriculum in New Mexico’s Architectural Education — Kristina Yu (University of New Mexico), David Miertschin (Central New Mexico Community College), Emmanuel Moreno (New Mexico State University)
Grounded Beginnings- Teaching Design Through Culture and Place — Armando Araiza (University of Texas at San Antonio)
WATERMARKS: Public Murals, Abstraction, and the Built Environment — Tiffany Y. Lin (Tulane University)
Designing for the Ephemeral - Adam Molinski (Auburn University), Yufan Gao (Boston Architectural College)
Inside While Looking Out — Nimet Anwar (Syracuse University)
10:45 - 12:15 | SESSION 5
5A: SCALE: FROM WEARABLE TO PLANETARY
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: Jared Macken
Market of No Sleep: Teaching Architecture at Planetary Scale — Madalyn Asker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Dystopian Worlds and 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 (Pratt Institute)
Integrating Learning Outcomes and Pedagogy into Team Building Gamification — Matthew Nicolette, PhD (Clemson University), Sallie Hambright-Belue (Clemson University), Jiachun Yao Clemson University), Zahra Ghazanfari (Clemson University), Sara E. Billie (Clemson University)
Temporary and Permanent: Engaging with Perceived Values — Jonathon Kenneday Stevens (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University)
5B: LOCAL, INDIGENOUS, AND CRITICAL PRACTICES
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: Jenn Low
Flipping the Modern: Interrogating the Narratives and Forms of the Modern Suburban House — Burak Erdim (North Carolina State University at Raleigh), Donghwan Moon (North Carolina State University at Raleigh), Jeremy Leonard (North Carolina State University at Raleigh)
Projecting Plurality — El Dante Winston (Kansas State University)
Local Knowledge: Rethinking Material Practices Informing Design — Santiago R. Perez (Florida A&M University)
Constraints as Catalysts: Indigenous Wisdom and Vernacular Solutions in Contemporary Studio Practice — Keif Schleifer (Kennesaw State University)
5C: GENERATIVE HYBRIDS
Location: GPH TBD / 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 T. Finnegan (Auburn University)
Kitbashing Architecture / Circularity / the ‘Other’ Pedagogies — Irem Sezer (Texas A&M University)
Reframing Structures: Engaging Students Through Vocabulary, Concepts, Collaboration, and Play — Brittany Taplin (North Dakota State University)
5D: MEANING MAKING
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: David Miertschin
Caoineadh — Mark McGlothlin (University of Florida)
Who is at your tea party? — Catherine Page Harris (University of New Mexico)
Collage as an Interrogative Design Tool for Beginning Architecture Studio — Lora Kim (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
Collaboration in the Classroom — Erin Carraher (University of Utah)
5E: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderator: Zach Seibold
Drawing as Thought — Alfons Poblocki (University of New Mexico), Kristina Yu (University of New Mexico)
Digital Pin-Ups and Collaborative Process: Using Miro to Visualize Design Thinking in Studio - Rebecca Midden (Columbia College Chicago), Rene 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), Eric Mainzer (Ball State University)
A Case of the Literals — 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 — Stephen Skorski (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Persistent Worlds: Leveraging Game Engines for Spatially- Consistent Generative AI Workflflows— Lee-Su Huang (Lawrence Technological University), Sara Codarin (Lawrence Technological University), Masataka Yoshikawa (Lawrence Technological University)
Creating Calm - From Corner to Corridor — Katie B. 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)
Project: Clankers — Hans Steffes (Texas A&M University)
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 TBD / Moderator: Beth Weinstein
Reframing the Foundation: Curricular Projection Across Disciplines — Kristin Barry (Ball State University), Lori Pence (Ball State University), Abhinandan Bera (Ball State University)
Introducing a Core Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum in Environmental Design — Neal Evers (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Design Agency: How Cross-Disciplinary Feedback Strategies Transform Studio Pedagogy — Lynette Panarelli (Wentworth Institute of Technology), Jordana Psiloyenis (Queens University - Charlotte)
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)
6B: INCLUSIVE PEDAGOGY
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: Donovan Lindsey
Novel Structures: Aligning Neurodiversity Teaching Strategies within Beginning Design Studio — Jeremy Merrill (Ball State University)
Scaling Intimacy: Adapting the Traditional Studio Model Amid Expanding Enrollment and Limited Resources — Deborah Ku (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry)
Reframing the Body in Space: Architecture, Embodiment, and the Unmaking of Norms - Zuzanna Karczewska (Montana State University), Kelly Olinger (Montana State University)
Agility now! Exploring and Deploying Multiple Modes of Feedback, Collaboration, and Assessment Tools in the Beginning Design Studio — Lohren R. Deeg (Ball State University)
6C: EXPERIENTIAL FOUNDATIONS
Location: GPH TBD / Moderator: Maxwell Fertik
Material Misuse: Ethical Foundations in Early Architectural Education — Peter DD 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)
6D: TERRITORIES
Location: GPH TBD / 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), James Michael Tate (Texas A&M), Weiling He (Texas A&M), Hans Steffes (Texas A&M), and Shirley Chen (University of Colorado Denver)
Reintegrating Landscape in Early Architectural Education: A Pedagogy for Symbiotic Design through Digital Modeling — Marc Eduard Ihle (Texas A&M University)
6E: PROJECT SESSION
Location: GPH 101 / Moderator: Omar Ali
Compassionate Critique: Building a Feedback Ecology in Beginning Design Education — Hannah Dewhirst (University of Kentucky), Jennifer Meakins (University of Kentucky)
Projecting Resilience: Early Indicators of Burnout and Motivation in Foundational Design Education — Kayla Roles (Kansas State University)
Introducing Students to Design Practice — 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 at Greensboro), Derek Toomes (University of North Carolina at 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 — 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 — Kristina Yu (University of New Mexico), McCLAIN+YU Architecture & Design
Generative Narratives: Speculative Futures for Collective Living — Sara Codarin (Lawrence Technological University)
Making ‘Room’: Spatial Encounters in Early Design Education — Amy Rakich (University of Idaho), Tharique De Silva (University of Idaho)
Scenic Design as a Tool for Beginning Interior Design Students — Sarah K. Lippmann (Pratt Institute)
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)
3:30 - 4:30 | NCBDS Annual Meeting / NCBDS42 Announcement | George Pearl Hall Auditorium
6:00 - 10:00 | Closing Dinner | Fusion (downtown ABQ) / featuring Nosotros
Thursday, February 26
Location: The Predock Center
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
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
8:00 - 5:00 | Registration
Daytime | Paper and Project Sessions
6:00 - 10:00 | Evening | Closing Dinner
Fusion (downtown ABQ)
featuring Nosotros
Sunday, March 1
Excursions
Details to come!
The Predock Center
308 12th Street NW, Albuquerque, NW 87102
For Thursday, February 26 events
George Pearl Hall
2401 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
For Friday and Saturday events