“Geometry of Uncertainty” a Design Science Symposium and Maker’s Fair at RISD. Organizer and Moderator Fall 2025.
Beyond the Blueprint: Architects as Artists, the Koskores Gallery, Thayer Academy Braintree, MA. Fall 2025
“Expressions of Field” The Crit Lab. AltMFA. Lecture given Fall 2025
“Growing the Networks” Water Fire Arts Center. Invited Artist to be included in this exhibition. Summer 2025
RISD ExEd. Led an in-person portion of the Art of Creativity program. Fall 2023
RISD Museum Faculty Biennial. My piece was featured in the RISD news story. https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/faculty-exhibition-2021. November 2021.
T-Space: Steven Myron Holl Foundation, Lecture, Field. Rhinebeck, NY. Summer 2021
Drawing the Future: Visions of Architectures to Come, School of Architecture, The Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Lecture, Drawing Making Sense. Ecuador. Fall 2021
The 2020 E. Paul Torrance Lecture, College of Education’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development; University of Georgia. https://coe.uga.edu/events/torrance-lectures Lecture, From Field https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJg51sVUBK4 October 2020
The Basis of Design, Key-note Lecture given as part of The Most Basic Things Event, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. https://nav.confetti.events/the-most-basic-things August 2020
The Cooper Union Database Launch: Participant in a discussion in The Cooper Union Great Hall. Participants included: Peggy Deamer, Laurie Hawkinson, Stan Allen, David Gersten, Bradley Horn, Kyna Leski, and Toshiko Mori. https://www.archpaper.com/2019/11/the-cooper-union-database-student-work/ November 2019
By Other Means, One of four architects/artists exhibition of artwork, Chazen Gallery, The Wheeler School, Providence, RI http://www.chazangallery.org/Season 2019 – 2021/Exhibitions 2019-2020/Berger Feld Katz Leski. asp October-November 2019
KRIGA at K-ARTS (Korea National Research Institute for the Gifted in Arts at Korea National University of Arts) established by Ministry of Culture and Tourism as part of a ‘Ten-Year Project for the Cultural Development of Korea.’ I gave the Keynote lecture, Creative Discovery: Intentions Elicited From A Field for the symposium, In the Age of New Media: A Paradigm Shift for the Gifted Education in Arts, at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul https://goo.gl/maps/Do5U5XjDtXvfVVov8. July 2019
Design Salon: The Transdisciplinary Imperative Panel Discussion. University of California, Irvine 2019.
YOMO: Your Ocean; My Ocean Multi-media Performance in collaboration with University of California, Irvine. Performances at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, February 2019 https://yomo.embodied.net/ & the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University. April 2019 https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2019/04/your-ocean-my-ocean-explores-environmentalism https://www.broadwayworld.com/rhode-island/article/Brown-Arts-Initiative-UC-Irvine-And-Rhode-Island-School-Of-Design-Present-YOUR-OCEAN-MY-OCEAN-20190322
Ocean Clarion Call A short animated film / dance performance by the students of my Architecture Studio: YOMO (Your Ocean, My Ocean) that conveys the ocean’s urgent call. Former RISD Library. Work included a screen which transformed into a dance costume/prop for 5 dancers; a musical instrument from plumbing pipes and 350 steel bolts; animations on the vast scale of the ocean, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, the effect fossil fuel on the carbon cycle, rising sea temperatures effect on the ocean conveyor belt. https://www.risd.edu/ news/stories/rfp-for-repairing-our-oceans/ December 2018
Pulchra Scientia: The Aesthetics of Discovery. Carleton College Museum, Minnesota https://apps.carleton. edu/museum/calendar/?event_id=1735816 Drawings and animation, Storm’s-eye View exhibited Sept. 2018 – January 2019
Designx RI Clambake Talk September 2018
Rush Process International Shorts Festival, Houston, Texas. My animation, Storm’s-eye View selected for screening. Trailer for this festival can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/284740966 August 17, 2018
Living in the Tempest. Performance/exhibit linking interactive digital media with music, dance & theatre in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine School of Performance. Irvine Barclay Theatre. https:// tempest.embodied.net/ May 2018
Infosys Summer Strategic Design Institute RISD, Invited Speaker. Summer 2018
Invision First Annual Conference, Hollywood, CA. Invited to speak to this gathering of the visual collaboration platform company. January 2018
The Opera House, Invited to contribute to Susan Froemke’s documentary on the creation of the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. I provided material, was interviewed and appeared in the film regarding my father architect Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Leski design concept for the iconic ‘genesis’ chandeliers as well as his work as the unrecognized right hand of Wallace K. Harrison. First screened at the MET in fall 2017 and shown in theaters internationally. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/great-performances-opera-house- documentary/8440/ 2018
Podcast Private Side of Public Work. https://privatesideofpublic.work/shownotes/24 February 2018
University Wellesley College, Guest Speaker, Wellesley, MA. https://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/124166 Fall 2017
ACSA, American Colleges and Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, Marfa, Texas. Participant in the Opening session & presenter. Fall 2017
MIT Press Podcast. Author Interview regarding my book, The Storm of Creativity. https://mitpress.podbean. com/e/episode-77-nov-15-kyna-leski/ August 2017
Turkey Land Cove Foundation ReUnion of Grantees, Guest Speaker, Providence, RI. April 2017
University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. Keynote Speaker of the weeklong Misher Festival of Fine Art. Honorary title of 2017 Misher Visiting Professor. Book Club Talk and Lecture. March 2017
The Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York, NY. Lecture, Field Guided, March 2017
University of California at Irvine, College of the Humanities, Irvine, CA. The Storm of Creativity Lecture and Workshop. February 2017
Texas Tech, College of Architecture & the Humanities Center, Lubbock TX. Speculations, Lecture. November 2016
RISD Institute for Design + Public Policy Lecture on Creativity. August 2016. June 2016
Strand Bookstore New York, NY. “Discovering Design” Panel. May 17, 2016
RISD Division of Design Event presentation. April 19, 2016
Ball State, Muncie, Indiana. Lecture on The Storm of Creativity, April 13, 2016
Beyer, Blinder Belle’s Winter Reading Series Talk, New York, NY. April 5, 2016
Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA. The Storm of Creativity Lecture & “Aquacast” March 29, 2016
Conversation / Exhibition / Book Launch, BEB RISD. Exhibited drawings produced in making the animation, “Storm’s-eye View;” participated in conversation with Stuart Blazer about creativity. Launch of The MIT Press publication of my book, The Storm of Creativity. https://our.risd.edu/post/132908376394 November 2015
U.S. State Department Summer Institute for Design and Public Policy. Lecture on the creative process as part of a workshop on the democratization of energy. August 2015
RISD Writing Center. “Sister Squared.” Reading of my creative non-fiction work. May 2015
RISD Museum: “Critical Encounters, Drawing as Architecture.” Presentation of the work of John Hejduk. April 2015
Aftertaste: “Inside the Imagination.” Parsons School of Constructed Environments; The New School. New York, NY. Lecture on the creative process and on a symposium panel discussion. https://sce.parsons.edu/blog/aftertaste_event/inside-imagination/
Sacramento Festival of the Arts. Lecture on the creative process and exhibit of the work of 3six0 Architecture, Sacramento State University. April 2014
Kossman Speaker. Stuckeman School Department of Architecture, Penn State. Juror for the two-day Kossman reviews of Thesis. February 2014
Kossman Reviews Juror. Stuckeman School Department of Architecture, Penn State. Juror for the two-day Kossman reviews of Thesis. April 2013
First Annual WIRED Health Conference: Living By Numbers, Participant October 2012
Re:making Architecture. Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Architecture. Conceived, organized and ran a two-day event to ignite discussion about architectural education. Invited guest speakers included Cognitive Psychologist and Educational Theorist, Eleanor Duckworth; Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Publisher, Editor and Author of Out of Control, Kevin Kelly; School Reformer and Founding Partner of Big Picture Learning, Elliot Washor; Designer, Author, Pioneer of Information Architecture, Creator of TED, Richard Saul Wurman; Psychoanalyst, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Thomas Ewens; Architect and Educator, Sung Ho Kim; Neurologist, Writer and Authority on the neurological basis of hand skill, Frank R. Wilson, M.D.; Founder and Artistic Director of Community MusicWorks, Sebastian Ruth. March 2012
Speaker at “Feminist Practices,” Van Alen Institute, New York, NY. March 1, 2012
Laskey Design Challenge Juror and Speaker, Washington University, Sam Fox School of Architecture, St. Louis, MO. January 2012
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Lecture given on the work of 3six0 Architecture. December 2012
Wentworth Academy School of Architecture. Lecture, “3six0 Architecture.” November 2011
Third Biennial Design Science Symposium. Rhode Island School of Design. Introduced Key-note Lecturer, and moderated Panel Discussion, “Practitioners: Nature’s Coordination and Design.” November 2011
China Academy of Art School of Architecture. Hangzhou, China. Gave lecture, “Sister Squared.” March 2011
Feltman Lecture. New York American Institute of Architects Sponsored Lecture. The Cooper Union. Gave lecture, “Light is Calling” Series, “Light Through the Eye.” March 2010
Second Biennial Design Science Symposium. Rhode Island School of Design. Gave presentation called, “Cohering Entropy.” November 2009
Pop!tech Main stage presentation on the creative process called, “Cohering Entropy.” Annual conference in Camden, ME. October 2009
RISD Architecture Roundtable Discussion, “How Do We Look to the Outside?” Organized and Participated in the discussion. Spring 2009
Shepley Bulfinch Architects Presentation given with President John Maeda at Fall 2008
Board of Trustees, RISD Presentation called, “The Making of Design Principles. October 2007
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. “Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry.” Keynote Lecture, “The Making of Design Principles.” Iowa University. April 2006
Brown University Lecture on my work. Spring 2005
ACSA National Conference in Chicago. Moderator of Panel Discussion. Spring 2005
RIAIA/RISD Panel on “Contemporary Architecture in a Historic City,” Organizing committee member. Summer 2004
National Convention of the American Institute of Architects. Invited speaker on work of 3SIXO for the “Young Architects Forum.” Chicago Illinois. Spring 2004
RISD Division of Design Presentation on Design Principles curriculum. Fall 2003
Build Boston: Women In Design: “Fresh.” Presenter. Fall 2003
RIAIA/RISD panel, “Being David Brussat.” Organizing committee member and presenter. Fall 2003
Boston Chapter of the AIA Roundtable Discussion on Education and Practice. Invited speaker. Spring 2003
Norwich University School of Architecture. Lecture on the work of 3SIXO. Spring 2003 University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Lecture on the work of 3SIXO. January 2003 Wellesley College. Lecture on my work. Fall 2000
Boston Chapter of the AIA Roundtable Discussion on Materials. Invited speaker. Fall 2000
Det Norske Arkitektakademi: “Materialet—Form og Mulighet.” Invited speaker to a conference on materials at the professional architecture association in Oslo, Norway. Spring 2000
Urban Center, The Architectural League of New York. An exhibition of selected entries to the TKTS competition which included the proposal by Studio 360. Spring 2000
Van Alen Institute and A.I.A. New York Chapter Competition. “Sun Shelter Competition.” Exhibition and forum, Fall 1997. Project discussion Spring 1998
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Evening Lecture. “Dream House.” Summer 1997
The Architectural League of New York. “Young Architects Forum,” Lecture & work shown. April 1997
R.I.S.D. Division of Architecture and Design Exhibition and Lecture. “Dream House,” Fall 1996
R.I.S.D. Department of Industrial Design Lecture “Jitcharoongphorn Furniture Project,” Christopher Bardt & I presented our H20 furniture designed & produced for a house in Bangkok, Thailand. Fall 1996
Cranbrook Academy of Art School of Architecture. Lecture our firm, “Studio 360.” Spring 1996
Temple University Gallery; Rome, Italy. “Faculty Exhibition: Art from American University and College Programs in Italy,” Exhibited watercolors of Roman dreams. Fall 1994
Museum fur Angewanthe Kunst; Vienna, Austria. Turned wooden bowl exhibited as part of the permanent collection. February 1994 to present
“Mind and Body” Exhibit. Show of the work of twelve young New England architects. Tennessee University School of Architecture, Winter 1993. Northeastern University. “Mind and Body” Exhibit; Fall 1991. RISD BEB Gallery. Winter 1992
R.I.S.D. Museum Faculty Biennial. Every other year 1992-2021
Division of Architecture and Design Faculty Show. Exhibited recent and on-going work. Fall 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1992, 1991, 1989, and 1988.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference; Princeton University. Panel Discussion on Architectural Analysis Problems. Fall 1990