On Tuesday, October 4th, Michael Speaks (head of the Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture—SCI-Arc) and Florencia Pita (an architect who teaches in SCI-Arc's Soft Technology Department) visited SHL and met with SHL's faculty board in order to pursue planning conversations regarding a series of joint design projects on the topic of augmented architecture. In November, an SHL delegation will be visiting SCI-Arc to participate in a design education round table discussion and in a series of studio visits of student projects. A publication series will in all likelihood be launched around this event.
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