Jeff Day to give 2026 Nebraska Lecture

FACT director Jeff Day has been invited to give the Spring 2026 Nebraska Lecture, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

Entitled “Houseing“, Day’s lecture will explore, through a close examination of our work, how the house has long been the site for testing new architectural ideas and ways of living, but is also a contested realm intersecting social conflict, access, and financial inequity. The lecture explores the house as a site for experimentation and crisis and focuses on potential opportunities and solutions. Featuring specific houses from refined custom homes to affordable housing prototypes, the talk considers the house not only as a private realm but also as the foundation for community.

The visually engaging presentation, geared towards a broad audience, showcases projects designed by FACT as well as his firm Actual Architecture Company including the NEw Attainable House, the Core ADU, the Wanaka Wedge House, and others in U.S. and abroad. The talk concludes with OurStory, a project that asks, “how do we want to live as we age?” and offers one of a set of potential solutions for the housing crisis.

The University of Nebraska Office of Research and Innovation partners with the Office of the Chancellor and the Research Council, in collaboration with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, to sponsor the Nebraska Lectures: the Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Typically offered once a semester, the Nebraska Lectures bring together the university community with the greater community in Lincoln and beyond to celebrate the intellectual life of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by showcasing the faculty’s excellence in research and creative activity.

The topics of these free lectures reflect the diversity of faculty accomplishments in the arts, humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. For more than 10 years, this forum has crossed academic boundaries to build morale and a sense of common identity, allowing some of the great minds on the UNL faculty to share notable discoveries in a non-technical format, fostering a collective passion for education and research, and spurring the imaginations of those who share the need to know more.