Forum Lecture: Exposures
Monday, November 10, 2025 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
- In-person event
- The Pit , Architecture Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- Maria Cook, mariacook3@cunet.carleton.ca, 613-520-2600
2025-2026 Forum Lecture Series
Speakers: Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, AGENCY, Texas Tech University, USA
Free and open to the public
Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are academics, architects, and founding partners of AGENCY, an architectural design and research practice located on the United States/Mexico border.
As directors of POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies) at Texas Tech University, their work has focused recently on ultraviolet radiation exposure and lack of shade in this urbanized desert, which impact the use of public space throughout the year.
Their work includes the development of radiation-aware shade structures using computational design to better respond to UV exposure in so-called “irradiated shade” conditions, which occur uniquely in the desert context.
Kripa and Mueller will present work from an ongoing, multi-year, and multidisciplinary project that collaboratively constructs the shared, untold, and unseen histories and trajectories of ultraviolet exposure conditions in vulnerable borderland communities.