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Founders of AUM Studio and Spec.AE. Architectural design, curation, theory, scenarios, &
interactive media; residential, installations, competitions in Europe and the US. Spec.AE
[speculative futures] joined the Data and Matter group show, Venice Biennale, 2018.
AUM Studio: https://aum.aumstudio.org/
Keller & Leitão have convened 20+ international conferences and lecture series. Their work and
writing has appeared in Volume, Punctum, &&&, EVOLO, A+U, AD, Metamorphosi, Wired,
Metropolis, Assemblage, and Ottagono.

Keller is a designer, professor, writer, musician, multimedia artist, and independent scholar.
From 2012-2020 he was the Director of the Center for Transformative Media [CTM] at The New
School; Associate Dean, Parsons, 2010-12; and from 2009-2020 was Associate Professor at
Parsons. Previous academic appointments include Columbia Univ. GSAPP [1998-2010] as
professor teaching advanced architectural design graduate studios and seminars, and serving
as the acting director of the AAD MS program in 2001; SCIArc 2004-09, where he founded and
coordinated the MediaSCAPES program and was full-time faculty 2007-09; and RPI, UPenn,
Pratt, Parsons, FIU and Bennington, variously, between 1996-2010. He has spoken on
architecture, film, artificial intelligence, technology and ecology internationally. Recent seminars
at The New School/Parsons include Post-Planetary Design, Soundscape, and Designing AI.

Leitão is an architect, professor, & writer. A Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School
of Architecture, 2010-present, Leitao’s studios and seminars explore the intersection of
architecture, urban systems, technology, ubiquitous cultures and immersive VR at RPI’s
CRAIVE Lab (https://www.clatcraive.net/). At the CRAIVE Lab, Leitao has developed academic
work and research around concepts of assemblies and front-end design for Control Rooms,
Interactive Spaces and Education Environments, reimagining private, public and institutional
architectural typologies. Leitao is Instructor and Lisbon’s Local Coordinator of SITREP, an
international school, teaching design research studios and promoting collaborative design
events in several countries. Recent seminars, studios and lecture courses include “Biodrome:
Architecture in the Age of Epidemics”, “Landscapes of Oblivion”, “Proto-Room”, “Inception”,
“Vision: Interface”, “Environmental History & Theory”, “Contemporary Design Approaches”, and
“The Architecture of Civic Forums”. She co-chaired [with Ed Keller] an ACSA Conference Panel
on “Addressability” in Detroit, in 2017, and curated and organized the event “Portugal Now” /
Cornell AAP Folio, an exhibition of 20+ Portuguese offices with conferences in Ithaca and NYC
[2007]. Lives/works in New York, USA and Lisbon, Portugal.