On March 21st, 2025, the PENN PhD Architecture Program at the Weitzman School of Design hosted the symposium and celebration Resources, Resilience, and Resistance on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the program. Alongside faculty and students, invited scholars S.E. Eisterer, Lydia Kallipoliti, John Ochsendorf, Ana Maria Leon, Jonathan Massey, and Theodora Vardouli discussed the future of doctoral research during the daylong, in-person event. In fifteen research presentations, participants addressed the impact of mounting changes to how data and information are accessed, increasing threats to university level research funds, unchecked development of artificial intelligence, questions of researcher agency and independence of thought, and challenges to the idea of open access to higher education for all.
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