Director of Research | POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies)
Stephen Mueller was the co-chair of the 2022 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Resilient Futures. Mueller is the founding Director of Research at POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies), a territorial think-tank and CoA research center situated on the US-Mexico border. POST engages transformations in the borderland through projects intersecting urban geography, border studies, and digital humanities. Stephen Mueller's research seeks novel applications for emerging spatial technologies to analyze, engage, and transform urban environments. Mueller's work leverages techniques of automation, sensing, visualization, and simulation to analyze, represent, predict, and operate within nascent binational environmental conditions.
Courses
Opening Keynote: Amale Andraos
Amale Andraos, FRAIC, presents recent projects demonstrating principles of resilience and high performance design strategies. She speaks to the methods available to architects even when confronted with small budgets and tight timelines. Amale also appears in conversation with conference co-chair and research assistant professor Stephen Mueller to discuss the challenges of designing in areas of social and environmental instability and highlights the strength of connecting academia with practice in an intentional way.
Course expires 01/25/2026
Expanded Futures: Plenary Session
This session will explore artist and designer responses to environmental resilience. Using nature as inspiration these designers have investigated what it means to create a closed-system environment, what we can learn from other organisms and how we can push our own thinking about the futures of the built environment.
Course expires 1/25/2026