Molly Wright Steenson
Professor, Writer, and Designer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Molly Wright Steenson
Professor, Writer, and Designer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dr. Molly Wright Steenson is a designer, author, professor, and international speaker whose work focuses on the intersection of design, architecture, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT Press, 2017), which tells the radical history of AI’s impact on design and architecture and how it poured the foundation for contemporary digital design.
Dr. Steenson is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Architecture. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, adjunct faculty at Art Center in Pasadena, CA, and an associate professor at the pioneering Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy.
Dr. Steenson cut her teeth on the web in 1994 and has since worked with groundbreaking studios, consultancies, and corporations.
She holds a PhD in architecture from Princeton University, a master’s in architectural history (M.E.D.) from the Yale School of Architecture, and a BA in German from the University of Wisconsin.