Maria Aiolova delivered a key note note lecture on Urbaneering Utopia: A New Profession for the Design of Cities at University of Manitoba Annual Symposium – ATMOSPHERE (ATMOS). Each year the ATMOSPHERE symposia explore issues that are intangible and overlooked in design, planning and architecture, those difficult to pin down, document, or record with conventional instruments and methodologies.
http://umanitoba.ca/architecture/atmosphere/keynote.html
Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim spoke at Design for Biodiversity: Architectural Responses to Urban Ecology, the 2013 Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design at Cornell University, Department of Architecture.
http://aap.cornell.edu/alumni/events/events_details.cfm?customel_datapageid_2742=583095
Maria Aiolova delivered a keynote address at the ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) Biennial in Vienna.The ELIA Biennial is the largest conference on higher arts education worldwide, drawing an audience of approx 500 teachers, directors, artists and thinkers. http://www.elia-artschools.org/Activities/biennial-conference/speakers