Events
Week of Events
Gallery Take-Over: Earth Material Resource Center
The 2024-2026 Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellow, Iris Xiaoxue Ma, will be taking over and transforming part of the Jim Shields Gallery into a ceramic studio/workshop space during the Spring 2026 semester. Iris will use the gallery as a production space for her Fellowship show and a material resource center for all School of Architecture & Urban Planning students.
Preparing Communities for Data Center Development
As data center development expands across Wisconsin and the Midwest, communities are increasingly being approached by developers seeking land, electricity, and water. While these projects can bring significant investment, they also raise complex questions related to zoning, infrastructure capacity, public finance, and environmental impacts. This Innovative Cities Lecture equips planners and local officials with the foundational knowledge needed before a data center proposal arrives
Mixing Realities, A Consciousness of Mud
Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect, educator, game designer, digital puppeteer, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect, Wulfman assembles hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture.