Author: Atia Newman
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The 2026 AASA/ACSA International Conference – Recap
We did it! We were invited to Brisbane, Australia to attend the super-prestigious AASA/ACSA International Conference and we presented our paper on the interdisciplinary aspect of the DIP method and how valuable it can be to the pedagogical goals of an architecture program. FYI, in case you didn’t know, online architecture programs are incredibly rare,…
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Strategic Planning: Wrap-up
Almost 3 years ago I joined RIT’s Strategic Planning Committee as the Faculty Senate representative. At that time, I was in my third term as Senate Chair, and I knew I could speak clearly about the concerns of our faculty in that moment and also help predict the kinds of issues that were coming our…
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Website Design
I just made a website for our local AAUP Chapter! Check it out here http://ritaaup.org/ The process was fun, and the logo was a group effort. It reminds me of how much fun it is to indulge in uncomplicated creation. And how creativity is never just retricted (restrictable?) to one lane.
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Karamah: Law & Leadership Summer Program and More…
Over the past few years I have become increasingly aware of an internal need to contribute to causes I feel strongly about. Purely by chance, I learned of this great organization named Karamah, which is a Human Rights organization run by Muslim women lawyers based out of D.C.. Many of the big cases and legislations…
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The ACSA/AASA International Conference, 2026
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) are pleased to announce the 2026 International Conference being hosted in Brisbane, Australia. The conference will take place July 8-11, 2026. Dr Alissa de Wit-Paul and I are chugging along on the DIP project, collecting yet another international…
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Decolonizing Preservation: The Digital Interactive Preservation Method
It occurs to me that I should be posting each time I am published in a journal because apparently it’s not enough to just do good work and be published. Sigh. Remember the days when it was enough to just do good work? Thanks to the Journal of Games, Self & Society for publishing our…
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Why Make Preservation Accessible to All?
My Lahore Fort digital preservation project is continuing to evolve and spark new results. I am refining my techniques and cementing the method that will serve as the foundation of this project.
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Faculty Senate Chair at RIT
After three years as Chair of the RIT Faculty Senate, I have come away with a treasure trove of insights, realizations and strategic understanding. Leadership, as experienced and viewed close-up from this role has taught me so much, I have spent the past 6 months simply processing everything, trying to find the words to make…
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Games For Good 2025
Another exciting development for our project; Digital Interactive Preservation was presented at the Games for Good Conference in Wooster MA this year! Wrapped up in a pre-Thanksgiving high, my co-PI and I had the best time at Clark University. The conference was well-organized, with great attendees bringing up the most interesting ideas and engaging in…
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UNESCO World Heritage Conference – Shanghai, China – Oct 2025
A huge win for my Digital Interactive Preservation project. My co-PI, Alissa de Wit-Paul were accepted to present at this year’s UHC-HEI Conference at Tongji University. Held by the International Network for Urban-rural Heritage Conservation in HIgher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI), it was an honor to present alongside some truly exciting researchers exploring ways to use…