“Technology is the answer, but what was the question.” — Cedric Price, architect

Celeste Layne is an urban planner by training — software engineer by profession. She is one of the co-founders of Architechie, a community of professionals working at the intersection of architecture and technology. Celeste currently works as an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation where she teaches Computational Design Workflows and guides architects in the use of web technologies for creative pursuits.

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Talks:

Creative Coding Festival. Visualizing Museum Collections. NYU Game Center, NY. Nov 2019

Careers in Emerging Technology Panel (Panelist). The New School, Career Series. Oct 2019

Afrotectopia Festival, Intro to WebVR with A-Frame. Google NYC, New York, NY. Aug 2019

Creative Coding Festival. Intro to WebVR with A-Frame. NYU Game Center, New York, NY. Jun 2019. A hands-on workshop on how to build a simple WebVR game application using A-Frame, an open source virtual reality web framework.

Processing Community Day, Visualizing Museum Collections. The New School, New York, NY. Feb 2019. Visualizing Museum Collections looks at the types of art works people are interested in — by city with the goal of visualizing the collection of the top ten museums in the city and rank their top twenty works by the number of likes, starting with the Met Museum.