{"693758":{"#nid":"693758","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Material AI: Beyond Human-Centered Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E: Based on Jonas Coersmeier\u2019s 2026 Wiley book, Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, this lecture questions a foundational assumption of contemporary technology: that humans are sovereign users while computers, materials, and environments are passive tools. The familiar language of tools, users, interfaces, and usability has made technology extraordinarily effective, but is usability alone an adequate ethical and ecological horizon?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lecture introduces Shared Materiality, Coersmeier\u2019s framework for understanding design as a distributed process among human, artificial, material, social, and ecological actors. It proposes that intelligence cannot be separated from its substrate, whether biological, computational, or material. Through architectural research, design pedagogy, and experimental work with AI, geometry, material behavior, and fabrication, the lecture traces a movement beyond image generation toward spatial and embodied intelligence. It also insists that AI is never immaterial: computation is entangled with energy, water, minerals, labor, buildings, and planetary systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis argument is not anti-human, nor does it relieve humans of responsibility. It distinguishes human ethical responsibility from the generative agency of machines and matter. Rather than asking only how humans can use AI more effectively, the lecture asks how humans, technologies, and materials might participate more responsibly in a shared material world from which none of them stands apart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E: Jonas Coersmeier is a German architect and American professor based in Brooklyn, New York. He explores the intersection of technology and material philosophy in design. His research and teaching at Pratt Institute and the University of Pennsylvania focus on social and ecological equity in urban housing and urban design. Educated at Columbia University, MIT, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, he brings an international perspective to architectural thinking\u2014combining engineering discipline with speculative design experimentation. An award-winning designer, his projects have been exhibited and published internationally, contributing to a broader discourse on architecture and design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E---\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays. 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