Day 1 of exhibitions, panels, and other events at the @filmgatemiami festival is finally underway! We’re having a blast and gaining valuable insights for our dev and design teams as we present our NYC Mission One game demo for Year 2180, our save-the-world climate project. If you’re in town, stop by! The program has so many cool offerings, and we’d love to see you!

Vanessa Keith, MArch, MIA, is a registered architect and the Principal of Studioteka, an award-winning design firm she founded in 2003 (@studiotekadesign). Based in DUMBO, Brooklyn, Studioteka integrates architecture, technology, economic and social development, and environmental concerns into its multidisciplinary approach. Vanessa’s focus includes visionary solutions to climate change and designing technical and engineering responses to environmental challenges. Her research spans Eco-, Afro-, and Indigenous Futurism, as well as the use of cutting-edge tools like virtual and augmented reality to create sustainable and socially just futures.

Don’t miss this engaging talk—come one, come all!

A huge thank you to @weitzman_school and @weitzman_arch faculty Simon Kim, @grasplab director Mark Yim, and Prof CJ Taylor. Special thanks also to John McInerny and Chloe Reison of @sachsartsphilly, and to graduating Weitzman super student Harsana Siva! We are truly excited about this opportunity!

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is celebrating its sixth annual round of grant awards, providing $170,000 to support 15 projects across categories such as Artist Residency Grants, Community Partnership Grants, Project Grants, Curricular Grants, and Independent Creative Production Grants. We are also celebrating the previously announced Student Grant Awards and First-Year Seminar Grants, with a combined total of $265,000 in funding for 45 ambitious projects across the arts and humanities this year.