agenda

The second speaker in this year's November Talks series is Summer Islam, an architect and director of Material Cultures, an architecture and research firm that merges design with materials research. Her work delves into the political ecology of building materials and examines the environmental impacts of using regenerative materials. She has lectured at ETH Zurich and previously taught architecture at Central St Martins, UAL, London Metropolitan University, and the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at the RIOT lab at EPFL in Lausanne, where her research focuses on decarbonized built environments that prioritize ecosystems over industrial interests.