School of Architecture 611 Lorado Taft Drive, MC-621 Champaign, Illinois 61820 T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor Educational Background University of California Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy DE: New Media, 2009, Situated Networks: in [re]search of the public. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pre-doctoral Researcher, MIT Medialab, 2006 University of California Berkeley, Master of Architecture, 2007 California College of the Arts, Bachelor of Architecture (5 yr professional degree), 2002. University of California Berkeley, Bachelor of Art in Landscape Architecture, 1994. Academic Positions Held Current Position: University of Illinois, School of Architecture, 2009 - present Faculty Affiliation with Unit for Criticism & Theory, 2015 present Faculty Affiliation with Illinois Informatics Institute, 2009 present Instructor: University of California Berkeley, Center for New Media, 2008 Visiting Lecturer: Dalhousie University, School of Architecture, 2007-8 Instructor: University of California Berkeley, Architecture Department, 2004-7 Other Professional Employment Principal, TT_Studio, San Francisco, CA 2000-2017. Partner, 510 Collective: a collaborative design practice, San Francisco, 2008-2015. Designer, Cary Bernstein Architecture, San Francisco, CA, 2001-2 Designer, KRA: Kuth Raneri Architects, San Francisco, CA, 2000-1 Designer, Bruce Tomb Architecture, San Francisco, CA, 2000. Selected Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements Honor Award: FAA Faculty Excellence in Research. This one-of-one award recognizes a sustained record of research and creative work, as demonstrated though publications, exhibitions, successful grant applications, and invited lectures, 2017.
T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor 2 Finalist: Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award. Public Space of Social Media. Urban Communication Foundation; Chicago IL, 2014 (one of one award). Honorable Mention: Best Faculty Research in the Humanities. IPRH Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 2014 (one of one award). Smart & Digital Cities Travelling Fellowship: a national award to participate in research activities in France, Consulate General of France in San Francisco, 2013. Winner: Scalable Research Challenge - SRC11, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC, 2012. Winner: Los Angeles RedCAR: Infrastructural Proposal, American Institute of Architects Honor Award, 2009. Dean of Graduate Students Fellowship: A campus wide award to top-ranking doctoral candidates, University of California Berkeley, 2007. Critic s Choice Award: Tracking (digital video project) Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2005. Doctoral Block Grant, Architecture Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-4, 2004-5, 2005-6. Malcolm Reynolds Fellowship, Department of Architecture, University of California Berkeley, 2002-3. Alpha Rho Chi Medal, School of Architecture, California College of the Arts, 2002. American Institute of Architects Student Excellence in Architecture Medal, 2002. Awarded to the top-ranking graduate in a NAAB accredited architecture program. Malcolm Wood Writing Award, California College of the Arts, 2000. Chinati Foundation Traveling Fellowship, California College of the Arts, 2001. A research fellowship at The Chinati Foundation, founded by Donald Judd, Marfa, TX. First Prize/Most Innovative (as part of a two person team): Irish Times/Abbey Homes International Housing Competition, Dublin, Ireland, 1995 Selected Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations Intelligent Infrastructure, Invited Public Lecture, School of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. April 4, 2019. Toronto s Smarter City, New Instrumentalities, El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) and ACSA International Conference, Madrid, Spain. June 14, 2018. Intelligent Infrastructure, San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR); Sept. 12, 2018. Intelligent Infrastructure, University of California Berkeley, Center for New Media, cosponsored by Institute for Transportation Studies. Sept 11, 2017. Workshop on Urban Mobility in the Era of Smart and Connected Communities; Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology, and The Array of Things (AoT), February 10, 2017. 2
T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor 3 Networked Urbansim -- Geographies of Information, UIUC Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Unit for Criticism and Theory, October 24, 2016. See review in Kritik, the online journal. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2016/10/therese-tierney-networked-urbanism.html The Potential Future of Mobility and its Impacts, E-Mobility as a Service Symposium. Agrion Global Energy Network, San Francisco, CA June 26, 2012. Global Publics & The Internet, HASTAC 2010: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory; Grand Challenges and Global Innovations International Conference, April 15-17, 2010. Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture + Design, Graduate Architecture Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 26, 2010. Selected Invited Design Review Critic Invited Juror: Cities by Sea: Urbanism in the Age of Sea Level Rise, Studio Critic: Alan Berger, Urban Planning Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2017 Invited Juror and Awards Ceremony: Late Late Entries Chicago Tribune Building Competition, Figure One Gallery, Champaign, IL, 2011 Invited Critic: State University of New York [SUNY] Undergraduate Architecture Review and Graduate Interactive Media, Final Review, 2009. Invited Critic: University of Toronto, Ontario Canada. Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Planning, Undergraduate Landscape Architecture, Final Review, 2008. Invited Critic: School of Architecture McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada; Graduate Final Review, 2007. Invited Critic: School of Architecture Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Canada Undergraduate Final Review, 2007. Editorships of Journals or Other Learned Publications Editorial Board Member, AJAR Research Journal: An Open Access peer-reviewed academic journal for architectural research, set up by ARENA (Architectural Research European Network Assoc.), Murray Fraser, Editor, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 2016-present Editor, How to Hack Utopia: Speculative Projects for the Sustainable City, Online Journal, 2013-present Selected Grants Received Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, i-chass Scalable Research Challenge, 2012 Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, UIUC Campus Research Board. [i-metro] universal access to information- Phase III-IV, $12,028, 2010-1. Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, UIUC Campus Research Board. Manuscript Development, Public Space/New Publics, $10,000, 2010 3
T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor 4 Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, UIUC FAA Creative Research Award, [i-metro] universal access to information- Phase II, $10,000, 2010. Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, UIUC Provost s Council on Gender Equity, LEGACY: Mobile Media Display, $6,300, 2010. Tierney, Thérèse, Principal Investigator, UIUC Campus Research Board, Manuscript Development, Re- Thinking Urban Transportation: New Strategies for Mobilities, $6,299, 2010. Anthony Burke, PI, Tierney, Thérèse, Co-PI, The Graham Foundation of the Arts, Manuscript Development: Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture + Design, $8,000, 2005. Anthony Burke, PI, Tierney, Thérèse, Co-PI, Intel Corp, $5,000, 2005. Anthony Burke, PI, Tierney, Thérèse, Co-PI, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Distributed Form_Network Practice Symposium, $5,000, 2005. Anthony Burke, PI, Tierney, Thérèse, Co-PI, Various grants from Berkeley Center for New Media, UCB Architecture Department, and the College of Environmental Design, $6,500, 2005. Publications Books Tierney, T.F. Intelligent Infrastructure: Zipcars, Invisible Networks and Urban Transformation. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2017. (272 pp) Tierney, Thérèse. The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of a Networked Society, London: Routledge, 2013. (257 pp) Tierney, Thérèse, Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface. London: Routledge Inc, 2007. (208 pp) Anthony Burke & Thérèse Tierney, Editors. Network Practices: New Strategies for Architecture and Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. (224 pp) Selected Publications Chapters in Books T.F. Tierney: Network Urbanism: Definitions and Directions in Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture. Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White, Editors. London: Routledge, 2019. Tierney, Thérèse. 2015. Book Chapter: Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics and Implications in Foundations in Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field. Jason Farman, Editor. New York: Routledge, 2015. Tierney, Thérèse, Biological Networks: on neurons, cellular automata and relational architectures. in Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture and Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, pp 78-99. Selected Publications Articles in Journals Tierney, T F., Invited Keynote Essay, Public Space Rewired, The Architectural Review. London: vol. CCXLI, no.1438: Shared Space/Women in Architecture 2017. This premier architectural journal has over 60,000 global subscribers and 140,000 unique social media readers per month. Tierney, Thérèse, Disentangling Public Space: Social Media and Internet Activism, Thresholds 41: MIT 4
T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor 5 Journal of Architecture. MIT Press; Cambridge MA. 2013. Tierney, Thérèse, Locative Media: A Critical Appraisal and Intervention. Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for Arts, Sciences, Technology: Environment. Issue 46:3 (June 2013) MIT Press; Cambridge MA. 2013. Tierney, Thérèse, Synthetic Digital Ecologies, Trace SF: Bay Area Urbanism online architecture journal (February 17, 2013) http://tracesf.com/ Tierney, Thérèse. An Interview With Erik Adigard Air XYZ: From Immaterial To Rematerial: The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale Corderie dell Arsenale. BAM Digital Culture online February 27, 2009. Tierney, Thérèse. Conceptual Art and the Architectural Object. Leonardo: Journal of the Int. Society for Arts, Sciences, Technology 40, no1: 51-57. MIT Press; Cambridge MA. 2007. Tierney, Thérèse. Collective Cognition: Neural Fabrics and Social Softwares. AD: Architectural Design. London: Wiley Academy. Sept/Oct 76 no5: 36-45. 2006. Tierney, Thérèse, Sensuous Surfaces ArcCA: Architecture California. Contributing writer and architectural critic 2000-2002. Publications Book Reviews Tierney, Thérèse, Book Review: Philosophy of Thought, Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review v25, no2 (Fall 2013) Publications Abstracts Tierney, Thérèse. Situated Networks: in [re]search of the public. Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) Educators & Students Program, Leonardo: Journal of the Int. Society for Arts, Sciences, Technology and Pomona College. 2009. The abstract for the thesis received the highest ranking by the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS). Conference Organizer Tierney, T.F., Symposia Organizer and Speaker, Intelligent Infrastructure, San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR), 2018. Tierney, Therese, Co-organizer and speaker: Rethinking Urban Transportation: Architecture & the City, a colloquium and exhibition on future urban transportation scenarios. Sponsored by San Francisco Chapter American Institute of Architects, Architects Newspaper, and California College of the Arts. September 2, 2010. URL: http://www.mobilityandthecity.com/ Tierney, Therese and Anthony Burke. Network Practice Symposium 2004. International Symposium on New Media and Architecture. Keynote Speaker: Mark Wigley. Sponsored by the College of Environmental Design and Architecture Department; October 22-24, 2004. URL: http://www.zaab.org/dfnp/ Conference Session Moderator Session Moderator: Theories of Social Media; ISEA 2011 International Symposium on Electronic Arts + Design, Session Moderator. Sabanchi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011 Session Panel Coorganizer [as 510 Collective], Investigating Urban Metabolisms, 5
T. F. TIERNEY, Associate Professor 6 Architecture & the City Conference, American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter. A panel discussion with leaders in the field of future urban transportation scenarios; 2010. Session Moderator: Spatial Mappings and Interactions; ACADIA 08: Silicon+Skin Computation and Biology, Session Moderator; University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN. This session presents proposals for new interactive modes of urban legibility combining both physical elements and complex overlays of information, 2008. Selected Creative Works Curator of Exhibition Tierney, Thérèse [as 510 Collective], California College of the Arts, Mobility & the City: Future Urban Transportation Scenarios Exhibition; San Francisco, CA, September 25-26, 2010. Tierney, Thérèse, Rethinking the Urban Hotel Exhibition, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, December 2-3, 2009. Tierney, Thérèse, architecture+animation Architecture and Video Exhibition; University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Fall 2010 Tierney, Thérèse, Mashup_Architecture. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA April 10-17, 2002. Exhibitor Tierney, TF. 2016. ZipBox Housing: Optimized, On Demand & Networked Disrupting Mobitlity International Summit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 12-14, 2016. Tierney, Thérèse. 2012. Legacy: Connecting Past & Present UIUC Women Architects. App Launch and Exhibition, May 11, 2012, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Chicago, IL, 2013. Tierney, Thérèse. 2010. School of Architecture Faculty Award Exhibition, September 2011, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Tierney, Thérèse. SOLR_Skin: Negotiating sun exposure in desert ecologies a sustainable architecture proposal. BERC Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative Symposium, University of California Berkeley, 2009. Tierney, Thérèse, Tracking [digital video project]. Bay Area Views: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Exhibition. May 2005. Tierney, Thérèse, Collapse: a group multi-media installation, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley. April 22-30, 2003. Tierney, Thérèse, Looped Spaces: a solo media installation, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, May 21-28, 2002. 6