Surface Summer School

Announcing the Speakers for the Surface Summer School Lecture Series

Yves Behar, Thom Mayne, Susan Sellers, and Dror Benshetrit are among the names speaking during our digital lecture series this month in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania. See below for a full schedule and how to tune in.

Surface’s summer partnership with the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at UPenn kicked off last week, a month-long curriculum and student competition to design a mobile testing unit for COVID-19. Headed by Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture, the program will be bolstered by a digital lecture series featuring prominent figures in the world of design that kicks off this evening.

Read an interview with Dubbeldam about the project here

Stuart Weitzman School of Design at UPenn.

Yves Behar
Founder, Fuseproject
Monday, June 8
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 959 8002 6695

Read the recap and watch the replay here


Ferda Kolatan
Founding Director, su11; Associate Professor of Practice, Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, June 10
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 988 5119 3364

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


V. Mitch McEwen
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Friday, June 12
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 974 6254 6561

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Thom Mayne
Founder, Morphosis; Cret Chair Professor of Practice, Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Faculty, SCI-Arc
Monday, June 15
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE 
Zoom Meeting ID: 949 3748 8916

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Michael Rock 
Founding Partner and Executive Creative Director, 2×4; Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art and Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture.
Wednesday, June 17
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 922 8129 4231

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


 Enrique Boloña Gilbert, Fabiana Alvear Gilbert, and Manuel Colon Amador
M.D. Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine, La Clinica Guayaquil;
Architects, Intemperie Studio
Thursday, June 18
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 944 2537 1144

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Joe Doucet 
Founder, Joe Doucet x Partners
Monday, June 22
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE 
Zoom Meeting ID: 922 8129 4231

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Marion Weiss 
Graham Professor of Practice, Stuart Wetizman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania; Co-Founder, WEISS/MANFREDI
Wednesday, June 24
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE 
Zoom Meeting ID: 937 9393 1437

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Marc Miller
Assistant Professor, Penn State
Friday, June 26
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE
Zoom Meeting ID: 970 7018 8736

Read the recap and watch the replay here.


Dror Benshetrit
Founder, Studio Dror and SuperNature Labs
Monday, June 29
6:30pm – 7:30pm
WATCH LIVE 
Zoom Meeting ID: 943 4167 5764

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