The group discusses digital transformations taking place in architecture schools, the tension between academia and practice, women in architecture, computational feminism, alternate dimensions, and our reality being a simulation - wow, things got trippy this time!

Discussion topics:

01:10 Steve has a theory...

01:41 What a way to start a podcast!

02:42 Shelby drove 2.5 hours to be here... for this?

03:21 Debate over who is a millennial

04:26 Old millennials remember a time before the internet

05:33 Traveling the world before smart phones

07:55 Problems predicting the future

08:19 Science fiction and predicting the future based on the present

09:14 The privilege of being without media

10:29 Transformations in communication

12:19 Informal communication and sending emojis to clients

12:56 "gif" or "jif" let's settle this - what about the peanut butter?

13:31 What is a scotcheroo??

14:40 How did Shelby get into architecture?

16:49 Finding a niche with computational design

18:26 Is a "parametric moment" kind of like a "digital turn"?

20:12 Shelby talks about digital craft

22:22 Changes in the architect's deliverable

25:33 Shelby talks about teaching digital fabrication

28:03 The importance of trade knowledge

33:25 Ethical and moral implications of technology transformations

35:51 How did Shelby end up in Iowa?

41:41 Thinking carefully about the moments we choose to use technology

43:12 Technology is a hearts and minds game

44:38 It is important to understand the current state when preparing for transformation

47:46 Shelby explains that there is a myth that technology is somehow unknowable

48:28 Struggle to bring people on board with new things

50:24 Teaching methods related to computation

52:58 Maybe there should be a crumpled paper tool in LunchBox

54:46 Bringing in outside expertise into the classroom

55:52 What was the biggest challenge in starting the Shelby's ISU computation curriculum?

59:04 Discussion about women in architecture and equity

01:02:57 It is hard to not re-perform your own education in the classroom

01:07:21 Shelby discusses "Computational Feminism"

01:10:51 Data is not neutral

01:13:45 Challenges and over-simplification with "optimization"

01:17:17 The digital panopticon

01:18:29 What are the disconnects between academia and practice?

01:20:36 Architecture is not about singular authorship

01:21:34 Critique of the trades mentoring model

01:22:42 Shelby has a crazy good voronoi joke

01:24:13 Student loans suck

01:25:37 Shelby asks if there are things Proving Ground wishes students had coming out of school

01:27:54 The difficulty in teaching when things are changing so fast

01:29:06 WTF is post digital?

01:32:13 Nate is legitimizing post digital by always shitposting about it.

The end! Byyyeee!