Carla Leitão is an architect, writer, and professor at RPI’s School of Architecture. As co-founder of AUM Studio and Spec.AE, her practice and research explores the intersection of architecture, materials and media concepts / processes. She leads research at RPI’s immersive space, the CRAIVE Lab, and is faculty at RPI’s CASE center. Leitão’s work includes built architectural design, curation, theory, speculative design & interactive multimedia installation; she has lectured, exhibited, published and led workshops internationally.