Wilson, Barbara B., “Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community Engaged Design,” invited lecture to Dickinson College, February 2019
“Institutions and Communities: Perspectives from Charlottesville,” invited lecture at Artplace America & Arizona State University Convening on Creative Placemaking Pedagogy and Practice, January 2019
“The Ethics of Design/Research Practice,” invited lecture at Texas A&M University, January 2019
Wilson, Barbara B., “Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community Engaged Design,” invited lecture to United States Green Building Council, Central Virginia Chapter, January 2019
Wilson, Barbara B., “UVA in the Community,” UVA Diversifying Scholarship Conference, November, 2018
Wilson, Barbara B., “Sustainable, Resilient Communities for All,” UVA Sustainability Bicentennial Summit, October, 2018
Wilson, Barbara B. “Design Matters,” Keynote for Austin Energy/ACDDC Community Celebration, Austin, November, 2018
Wilson, Barbara Brown, “Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design,” Austin Design Week, Austin, November, 2018
Gough, Meghan Z. and Barbara B. Wilson, “Laying the groundwork for the engaged campus: Innovations at two research universities,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Buffalo, October 2018
Wilson, Barbara B. and Kevan Klosterwill, “...And Welfare? The Articulation of Design's Social Responsibilities Through Impact Assessment in Building Certification Programs,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Buffalo, October 2018
Wilson, Barbara Brown, “Resilience for All: Book Talk,” New Books for Rail~Volutionaries, Railvolution Conference, Pittsburgh, October, 2018
Wilson, Barbara Brown, Speaker on Panel Entitled: “Designing the Political Landscape: Activism + Design in the Trump Era,” Hosted by Ian McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania, August, 2018
Matthew, Dayna and Barbara B. Wilson, “Understanding Inequity in Charlottesville,” Teaching Race at UVA: Faculty Development Seminar, June 7, 2018
“Resilience for All,” Association of Community Design, Baltimore, June 2018
“Coding Civic Infrastructure,” University of Pennsylvania Civic Infrastructure Summit, Philadelphia, June 2018
“From Public-Interest to Community-Driven Design: How Language Frames Practice,” Urban Affairs Conference, Toronto, April 2018
“The Friendship Court Youth Leadership Program: Citizen Science in the Context of Neighborhood Change,” with Nancy Deutsch and Andrew Mondschein, UVA YouthNex Works in Progress Series
“Design Justice as Design Innovation,” SXSW, Austin, March 2018
“Community-Driven Design,” UVA Community Psychology Lunch Lecture Series, November 2017
“Design for Social Equity,” on Radio Show (94.7 FM)/Podcast Apropos of Something, November 2017
“Mapping the Origins of Community-Engaged Design,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Cleveland, October 2017
“Designing for Equity, with Community,” Hopscotch Design Festival, Raleigh, September 2017
“Community Driven Design as a Creative Disturbance in Vulnerable Neighborhoods,” Urban Affairs Conference, Minneapolis, April 2017
“Engendering Local Stewardship through Citizen Science at Friendship Court,” UVA Resilience Lunch Colloquium, February 2017
“Impact Evaluation Panel,” Moderator, UVA A School Faculty Research Dialogues, February 2017
“Public Interest Design,” Panel Participant, Penn Design, January 2017
“Allyship as a Learning Objective: Techniques from Transformational Learning,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland, November 2016
“Roundtable: Sustainability and Inclusive Urban Development in Global Perspective,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland, November 2016
“Representations of Urban Nature in Planning, with Julia Triman, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland, November 2016
“Hackable Infrastructures: Grassroots Community Design as Creative Disturbance,” UVA A School Faculty Research Dialogues, October 2016
“Community Engaged Design as a Vehicle for Resiliency in Vulnerable Communities,” invited lecture at the Living on the Edge Conference, Galveston Historical Foundation, Galveston, TX, October 2016
“Community-engaged Design Practice and Pedagogy,” invited lecture at University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning, September 2016
“Design, Engagement & Partnership,” invited lecture as a part of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Surdna Foundation’s Designing Equity National Convening, Washington D.C., May 2016
“Towards Equity: Raising the Bar for Public Interest Design,” invited lecture at Cornell University, April 2016
“Coupling Systems, Building Coalitions: Connecting Housing, Energy, and Transit in U.S. Cities,” invited lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, March 2016
“Moving Oaks and Measuring Values: The Tale of the Austin Oaks Housing Competition,” Society for American City and Regional Planning Conference, Los Angeles, November 2015
“Defining Public Interest Design,” invited lecture, University of Texas at Austin Public Interest Design Program, June 2015
“Making the Case for Retrofitting Unsubsidized Affordable Housing: How, When and Why Cities Preserve and Green Older Multifamily Housing,” Urban Affairs Association Conference, Miami, April 2015
“Design as Activism | Activism as Design,” invited lecture at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, March 2015
“Diversity and Leadership Workshop,” with Nicole Joslin, Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, New Orleans, June 2014
“Beyond Participation: A Review of Best Practices in Inclusive Problem Solving,” with Nicole Joslin, Urban Affairs Association Conference, San Antonio, April 2014
“Sociotechnical Code-making in the United States: The Political Content of Successful Technology Policy,” with Steven Moore, PLEA: Sustainable Architecture for a Renewable Future, Technical University of Munich, Germany, October 2013
“SEED in the Context of Social Movements,” Harvard Graduate School of Design, SEED Founders Day, Cambridge, July 2013
“Remembering and Recovering: Negotating the Social and Ecological Imperatives of Rebuilding,” with Marcus Walters, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference/AESOP Conference, Dublin, Ireland July 2013
“Connecting Civil Rights to Local Practice,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Public Interest Design Institute, Atlanta, July 2013
“Public Participation Research: Means and Ends,” Lead Pre-Conference Workshop, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference, Austin, March 2013
“Inching Towards Change: The Long Game of Community-University Partnerships,” with Jane Winslow, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference, Austin, March 2013
Cultivating Effective University-Community Engagement Workshop Case Studies Panel, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2013
“Asset-based Community Design: The Role of Encountering Difference within Planning Education,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Cincinnati, November 2012
Public Interest Design and Alley Regeneration Panel, Texas American Planning Association Meeting, October 2012
Mayor’s Institute on City Design, Sustainability Resource Team Member, Charleston, September 2012
“Sustainable Post‐Disaster Housing: Challenges and Opportunities,” Urban Affairs Conference, Pittsburgh, April 2012
“Overcoming Barriers: Successes and Failures,” Design Access Summit, Sausalito, March 2012
Design for Social Innovation and Public Good, South By Southwest Interactive Panel and Interview with the Associated Press, March 2012
Mayor’s Institute on City Design, Sustainability Resource Team Member, Houston, February 2012
“The History of Civic Urban Form: Urban Social Movements and their Building Codes,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2011
“Designing Spatial Justice,” University of New Mexico, Public Interest Design Institute, Albuquerque, September 2011,
“Toward a Theory of Civic Urban Form,” Society for the Social Studies of Science International Conference, Washington D.C., October 2009
“The SEED Network: An Architectural Bat Signal,” Appalachian State University, Power of Design Lecture Series, Boone, North Carolina, December 2008
“Social Movement Towards Spatial Justice: Citizens and the City,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Chicago, July 2008
“Social Movements and the City: Codifying Spatial Justice,” First International Conference on Spatial Justice, Paris, March 2008
“Codes and Social Change: A Case Study in the Built Environment,” Society for Social Studies of Science International Conference, Montreal, September 2007
“Sustainable Communities: The Politics of Code-Making,” with Dr. Steven Moore, American Institute of Architects National Conference, San Antonio, May 2007
“Designing Architectural Education: A Case Study of University/Community Partnership at UT- Austin,” CITA Community University Partnerships: How do we achieve the Promise? International Conference in Lowell, Massachusetts, April 2007
“Learning to Listen: Reflections on Community Engagement and Its Place in Architectural Education,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Ft. Worth, November 2006
