LECTURES/ INTERVIEWS/ BOOKS

2020                           

Microsoft Sustainability Speaker Series, Panel, Microsoft Garage, New York, NY.

Dezeen Virtual Design Festival (VDF), Design with Life, Panel, London, UK.

Materials for an Extreme Future, Speaker, Material ConneXion, New York, NY.

Design Talks NOW, NYCxDesign, Times Sq. Alliance, New York, NY.

2019                           

LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Keynote, Cairo, EG.

American Planning Association Conference, Biophilic Urbanism, Panel, New York, NY.

The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG), Lecture, Toronto, CN.

Mecca Ru'a Al-Haram Future Studio, Lecture, Riyadh, SB.

BAU 2019, DETAIL Event, Lecture, Munich, DE.

Me Convention, Keynote, Frankfurt, DE.

Center for Architecture, Quantified City: Impacts on the Urban Context, AIANY, NY.

Museum of the City of New York, Housing Tomorrow's City, Speaker, New York, NY.

The Explorers Club: Actions, Climate Week Panel, New York, NY.

DFC Leadership Summit, Future of Environmental Responsibility, Minneapolis, MN.

Rethinking Animals Summit, Panel, SVA Theatre, New York, NY.

TED Fellows Salon, Marriot International, Keynote, Rotterdam, NL.

ArchitekturKulturStiftung, BUNKER, Keynote, Architecture Gallery, Munich, DE.

NZZ Real Estate Days, Swiss Conference, Keynote, Interlaken, CH.

2018                           

Evolve Arena, Smart Cities Expo, Keynote, Oslo, NO.

TED Institute, DuPont TechCon, Speaker, Wilmington, DE.

Florida International University, Dept. of Architecture, Lecture, Miami, FL.

Yale (YSOA), Transforming DNA of the Built Environment, Lecture, CEA, Brooklyn, NY.

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Lecture, Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.

Center for Architecture, Collapse Climate, Cities, and Culture, Panel, AIANY, NY.

Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), Climate Infrastructures Conference, Panel, NYU, NY.

The Cooper Union, Architecture Summer Lecture Series, New York, NY.

Brooklyn Tech Week, Speaker, Brooklyn, NY.

AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations, Lecture, New Lab, Brooklyn, NY.

Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF), Lecture, Galway, IE.

NYU Urban Digital Humanities: Design and Sustainability, Speaker, New York, NY.

NYU Faculty Urban Research Day Conference, Panel, New York, NY.

TED, Delta Destination Tomorrow, Speaker, Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, GA.

Cyber Transform Symposium. Keynote, University of Houston, TX.                                            

International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Keynote, Houston ,TX,

NEXUS Global, Lab of Futurism, Speaker, Terreform ONE, New Lab, Brooklyn, NY.

One Night Wonder: Future Shock, Keynote, Discovery Place Museum, Charlotte, NC.

2017                           

Seoul Biennale, Imminent Commons: The Debates Part I, New Lab, Brooklyn, NY.

Natural/ Designed Ecologies, Keynote, Kent State University, OH.

Terreform ONE, Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Writing The Subway, Lecture, The School of The New York Times, New York, NY.

NYU Gallatin Climate Change Initiative Conference, Lecture, New York, NY.

Intel SHIFT, Keynote, Skylight Studios, New York, NY.

DETAIL Congress: Transformation - Architecture in Change, Lecture, Frankfurt DE.

TED City of Tomorrow Symposium, London Symphony Orchestra, Speaker, London, UK.

TED City of Tomorrow Symposium India, Aerocity, Speaker, Delhi, IN.

Leadership Summit, Design and Innovation, Lecture, Design Futures Council, La Jolla, CA.

TED Ford, City of Tomorrow Symposium, Speaker, Auto Show, Detroit, MI.

Storefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series: At Extremes, Panel, New York, NY.

Climate Change Symposium, Panel, NYU Paris, FR.

Gesamtkunstwerk Arts Conference, Panel, NYU Berlin, DE.

Future of Food, Alchemist’s Kitchen, Panel, New York, NY.

Smart Cities NYC, Fast Food: From Farm to Foodie, Duggal Greenhouse, New York, NY.

FURIOUS!, PechaKucha, Global Design NYU, NY.

Shukhov Lab, Laboratory for Experimental Urban Design, Lecture, Moscow, RU.

The Future of Wellness Forum, Roundtable, Steelcase, New York, NY.

NextGen Forum, Hospitality Design, Keynote, Washington, DC. 

International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Keynote, Four Seasons, Atlanta, GA.

Biofabricate Summit, Speaker/ Workshop, New Lab, Brooklyn, NY.

2016                           

Biosmith: Insects to Fungi in Cities, Cornell University AAP, Lecture, New York, NY.

Future of Suburbia, MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, Speaker, Cambridge, MA.

Bio-hacking and Urban Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lecture, Troy, NY.

Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened, Storefront and The Cooper Union, NY.

Institute for the Future, The Futures Edge for Cities: 20 Year View, Ford Foundation, NY.

ENVISION: Nature and Design, PechaKucha, Global Design NYU, NY.

Norsk Hydro, Future of Aluminum Event, Keynote, Oslo, NO.

Greening Cities Outside the Central City, Urban Democracy Lab, Global Design NYU, NY.

Appleton Museum of Art, Bio Art and the City, Keynote, Ocala, FL.

NXP FTF Technology Forum, Keynote, Austin, TX.

Sustainability Summit, Earth Matters/ NYU Green, Keynote, New York, NY.

Will the Next Alexander McQueen Be a Biologist? BF+DA, Pratt Institute, Panel, NY.

New Lab, Innovators Inaugural Event, Lecture, Brooklyn, NY.

2015                           

United Nations, Innovative Disaster Risk Reduction, Speaker, UN Headquarters, NY.

Myles K. Thaler Memorial Lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

The Bartlett, University College London, International Lecture Series, London, UK.

Institute for Advanced Architecture Catalonia (IaaC), Keynote, Barcelona, ES.

AIANY, Edge of Practice, Speaker, Center for Architecture Seaport Culture District, NY.

Urban Places - Public Spaces, Goethe-Institut, Speaker, NY.

Shifting Perspectives, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Keynote, NL.

Disrupting Mobility Summit, MIT Media Lab, Speaker, Cambridge, MA.

The Atlantic LIVE, Framing the Future, Speaker, New York, NY.

Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Speaker, Scottsdale, AZ.

NYU Gallatin Event, Faculty Reading, Global Design and Super Cells, NY.

The College Art Association, Towards a Better Future, Speaker, NY.

Nodes and Networks, School of the Visual Arts, Panel, NY.

Rubin Museum of Art, The Fountainhead film screening, Speaker, NY.

Wood At Work Conference, Bronx Zoo Great Hall, Panel, Bronx, NY.

Hopscotch Design Festival, Speaker, Raleigh, NC.

Lawrence Technological University, Lecture, Detroit, MI.

NYU Tisch, ITP, Hacker Village + Smart City + Urban Farm, Speaker, NY.

2014                           

The Esther Steinberg Memorial Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Aspen Ideas Festival, Post-Sustainability, Speaker, The Aspen Institute, CO.

ACSA, Administrators Conference, EXPANSE, Speaker, Philadelphia, PA.

Smart Living City, Jumeirah Emirates Tower, Speaker, Dubai, UAE.

National Academy Museum, CIVITAS, Transportation and 2nd Ave. Subway, Speaker, NY.

Visualized Conference, Speaker, The Times Center, NY.

Cities and Citizenship Conference, Co-organizer, GDNYU, Parsons, Goethe-Institut, NY.

Autodesk IDEAS: The Innovation + Design Series, Speaker, San Francisco, CA.

Harvard GSD, Projective Views on Urban Metabolism, Speaker, Cambridge, MA.

THNK, School of Creative Leadership, Lecture, Amsterdam, NL.

New York Ideas, The Atlantic LIVE, Speaker, New York, NY. 

Weltstadt Conference, DAZ (German Architecture Center), Berlin, DE.

AIA Columbus, Speaker, Center for Architecture and Design, Columbus, OH.

The Building Information Centre (YEM) Keynote, Istanbul, TR.

Dwell on Design, Blank Space, Panel, New York, NY.

The Future of Design, Panel, Grimshaw Architects, New York, NY

Sustainable Building Summit, US Green Building Council, Keynote, Salt Lake City, UT.

DASA International Scenography Colloquium, Speaker, Dortmund, DE.

Southern Illinois University School of Architecture, Keynote, Carbondale, IL.

Post-Carbon City, Organizer, TU Berlin, DE.

Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Emerging Biofabrication Tech, panel, Cambridge, MA.

London Lime Wharf and Urbanista, Towards Metabolic Cities, Speaker, London, UK.

Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), Big Cities, Big Data, Lecture, NYU, NY.

Interior Design Magazine, Future Green Hospitality Forum, Keynote, New York, NY. 

Wilsonart Multi-City Cre8ivity Tour, Keynote, Chicago, IL.

Sustainable Energy, Design Conference, Center for Sustainable Energy, Panel, Bronx NY.

Biofabricate Summit, Speaker/ Panel, Microsoft Technology Center, New York, NY.

The New York Times International Luxury Conference, Next Big Thing, Speaker, Miami, FL.

The Next Big Shift: Urbanism Redefined, Keynote, Monona Terrace, Madison, WI.

2013                           

Cornell University, Design for Biodiversity Symposium, Speaker, Ithaca, NY.

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Speaker, Moscow, RU. 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture Lecture, IL.

DLD (Digital, Life, Design) Conference, Speaker, Munich, DE.

TEDxBerlin, City 2.0, Speaker, Berlin, DE.

Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), Sandy, Climate Change and the Future of NYC, NY.

Engineering Sustainability, Keynote, Carnegie Mellon University, PA.

MoMA PS1, VW Dome 2, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Speaker, NY.

DESIGNCIRCUIT, CrisisAsCalling + CraftingDigitalCulture, Speaker, WeWork, NY.

Association of Professional Design Firms (APDF), Speaker, NY.

New Museum, Pitch the City, Speaker, Architizer/ Municipal Art Society of New York, NY.

Environmental Studies Program, Future of Ecological Cities, NYU, NY.

PechaKucha NYC Vol. 14, Makers and Shakers w/ Terreform ONE, Brooklyn NY.

The Organic City: Urbanism Redefined, Speaker, Rockford College, IL.

Reinventors, Reinvent Adaptive Cities with Alex Steffen, Panel, NY.

The Forum For Urban Design, Next New York, Panel, NY.

2012                           

Future Cities Event, 10 Downing Street, Speaker, London, UK.

Design Miami, Design Pioneer Talks with Vito Acconci, Miami FL.

Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies, Speaker, The Cooper Union, NY.

Making Space Symposium, Panel, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

metaLAB at Harvard, Networks and Natures, Speaker, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), City Talks, Speaker, NYU, NY.

Assemble, The Crafts Council Conference, RIBA, Speaker, London, UK.

DLDcities (Digital, Life, Design) Conference, Speaker, London, UK.

HEC School of Management, Sustainable Business Conference, Speaker, Paris, FR.

Dwell on Design, Radical Sustainability, Speaker, Los Angeles Convention Center, LA.

AIA New Jersey, East Coast Green Conference, Keynote, Lincroft, NJ.

Prototyping Futures, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL.

Chicago Ideas Week (CIW), Speaker, Chicago, IL.

I-Park symposium, Ephemeral Art and Architecture, East Haddam, CT.

Chicago River Summit, Friends of the Chicago River, Speaker, Chicago, IL.

Green Design as (Un)usual, Panel, Van Alen Institute, NY.

TED2012, Sustainable Energy, Panel, Long Beach, CA.

US Green Building Council, Growing Green Awards, Keynote, St. Louis, MO.

3RD Ward Education Center, Envisioning Ecological Cities, Speaker, Brooklyn, NY.

iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine), Regional Jamboree, Pittsburg, PA.

RAMPS, Dept. of Performance Studies, Speaker, Texas A&M, College Station, TX.

NDSU, Beaux-Arts, Keynote, Fargo, ND.

ONE Lab, NY School for Design Science, Speaker, Brooklyn, NY.

2011                           

The Economist, Intelligent Infrastructure Conference, Speaker, New York, NY.

AIA Philadelphia, Annual Design on the Delaware Conference, Keynote, Philadelphia, PA.

TEDxTransmedia, Maxxi Museum of Contemporary Art, Speaker, Rome, IT.

School of Visual Arts, Embodied Fantasies Conference, Plenary Speaker, New York, NY.

Harvard University Real Estate Academic Initiative, Speaker, Cambridge, MA.

Commission on Sustainable Development, Panel, United Nations, New York, NY.

University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series, Ann Arbor, MI.

The Festival of Ideas for the New City, Workshop Session, New Museum, New York, NY.

Storefront for Art and Architecture, DRAW-THINK-TANK, New York, NY.

Rubin Pavilion Event, Brooklyn Museum, Speaker, Brooklyn, NY.

Forum on Future Cities, Speaker, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Dwell Magazine, InMotion: Live, Drive, Innovate, La Venue, Panel, New York, NY

PICNIC Festival, Crystal Palace Workshop on Mycoform, Amsterdam, NL.

Influencer Conference (InfluencerCon), Panel Speaker, New York, NY.

Transhumanism Meets Design Conference, Parsons, Speaker, New York, NY.

Design School, Nanotechnology Center, Speaker, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

NEAR (Network for Emerging Architectural Research) Conference, Pratt, Brooklyn, NY.

Edison Awards panel, New York Academy of Science, Speaker, New York, NY.

Summer of Architecture (Architektursommer), Panel, Staatstheater, Darmstadt, DE.

TED2011 Conference, Senior Fellow, Long Beach, CA.

TEDxGallatin Art+ Science, Gallatin, NYU, New York, NY.

TEDxColumbia Engineering School, Speaker, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Digital Art at Google, Google Inc., Speaker, New York, NY.

Living Cities: Vision and Method Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON.                             

National Ideas Competition for Washington Monument Grounds, Juror, Washington, DC.

Eco-Redux, Manifesto Series 03, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY.

Galapagos Art Space, Speaker, Brooklyn, NY.

2010                           

TED2010 Conference, “Why Grow Homes?” Long Beach, CA.

TEDxBrooklyn, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

USGBC Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Master Speaker, Chicago, IL.

Future City Mobility and BioDesign, PICNIC conference, Amsterdam, NL.

Aspen Environment Forum Panel, Aspen Institute and National Geographic, CO.

Mowing to Growing, American Society of Landscape Architects, Expo, Washington, DC.

AIA Hampton Roads Fall Forum, Keynote, Norfolk VA.

NEXT CITY: LMN Symposium, Keynote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Technische Universität (TU), Vienna, AT.

Cabaret Series, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY.

The Plain Green Conference; Keynote, Sioux Falls, SD.

Sustainable Urbanism, Keynote, Lawrence Tech College of Architecture, Southfield, MI.

The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning, Washington DC.

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Lecture, Savannah, GA.

The Feast Conference, Speaker, The Times Center, New York, NY.

New Ecological Strategies Colloquium, Tulane School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA.

International Interior Design Association Forum, Speaker, New York, NY

Ecogram III, Africa, GSAPP, Columbia University, NY.

The European Graduate School (EGS), Saas-Fe, CH.

Future Carborexic Cities, University of Toronto School of Architecture, Toronto CA.

Between Paradigms, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY.

Arriscraft Lecture Series, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge, ON.

2009                           

Ecological Urbanism Conference, Speaker, Harvard GSD, MA.

Ecogram II, Architecture for a Crowded Planet, GSAPP, Columbia University, NY.

Global Warning: Artists on Climate Change, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), NY.

World Science Festival, Traffic: From Insects to Interstates and WALL-E's World, NYU, NY.

Future Cities by Massive Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD.

Plastic and Plasticity Symposium, SOA and Humanities Center, Syracuse University, NY.

The Public School, Telic Arts Exchange, Center for Architecture A.I.A. NY.

Energy and Sustainability, IGERT, University of Delaware Energy Institute, Newark, DE.

Student Climate and Conservation Conference (SC3), National Conservation Center, WV.

The Future City Beautiful, Keynote, Real Estate Expo, Denver CO.

The Forum for Clean Technology and Renewable Energies, NYC ACRE, NYU-Poly, NY.

Interactive Multimedia Culture (IMC) Exposition, Responsive City, Studio IMC, NY.

Iron Designer, with Studio X, Storefront, Raumlabor, DUMBO Improvement District, NY.

The 4th Nordic Urban Design Conference in Norway, Bergen, NO.

Design Green Now, Pratt Institute, NY.

International Engineering Congress, Escuela de Ingeniería, Chihuahua, MX.

Science for Life, University of Winnipeg, CA.

Evolver Town Hall Event, Thrive NY, St. Marks Church, NY.

Brain Juicer Innovation Event, ScribeMedia, NY.

2008                           

New American Foundation, Wired magazine, Dear President X: Think Big, Washington DC.

Hearst Lecture Series, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. 

Czech Technical University (CTU), Prague, CZ.

The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism Panel, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY.

Com:Plot (Action:Reaction), Foro de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, MX.

Ecogram I, The Sustainability Question, GSAPP, Columbia University, NY.

Walt Disney R&D, Lecture, Glendale, CA.

World Science Festival, Future Cities: Sustainable Solutions, NY.

Universidad Francisco Marroquí­n (UFM), School of Architecture, Guatemala, GT.

Synergy Conference, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

High Gloss/ Social Conscience, The SCOPE Pavilion, Lincoln Center, NY.

Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST), Trenton, NJ.

Urban Design Panel: Sustainable Cities, Columbia University, NY.

2007                           

Harvard University Center for the Environment Speaker Series, MA.

Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY.

Computation Group Lecture Series, MIT Dept. of Architecture, MA.

Boston Society of Architects, Urban Design Committee, Lecture, MA.

Architects League of Northern New Jersey, AIA Arthur Davis Lecture, NJ.

2006                           

AltWheels, Museum of Science, Boston, MA.

Auto-Free NY, Alliance for Downtown New York, NY.

2004                           

MIT Building Technology Program lecture series, MA.

Alliance for Global Sustainability, Chalmers University of Tech., Gothenburg, SE.

2003                           

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Miami, FL.

2002

Evolve New York Open Studio: Rebuilding Proposals, Columbia University, NY.

Towards Sustainability In The 21st Century, HUCE, Harvard University, MA.