Teulo Talks: 25 February 2022_Part One_Augmented Space Agency + Mania Aghaei Meibodi

CPD Points:

ADNZ

Design - 1, Construction - 1

NZRAB

10 Design, 10 Project Management

AIA USA:

2 Learning Units

Australian:

2 Formal

9am - 10am

Cip Făcăeru

Augmented Space Agency

BIO:

Ciprian Făcăeru is a new media architect and researcher focused on immersive, interactive & digitally augmented media experiences and arts. He is a research assistant at UNATC - National University of Theater and Film and co-founder of Augmented Space Agency, a design and development studio with an emphasis on AR and VR technologies defined in the mixed real-virtual continuum.

His desire to experiment new design paradigms and artistic expressions using new media technologies converges towards an exploratory art-based research that is questioning humanity-technology relationships and aims to discover ethical forms that could have a positive impact on culture and society.

Talk abstract:

ENG // Augmented Space Agency are explorers of the vast frontiers found at the convergence of physical and virtual realities, architects of augmented spaces and designers of future tech mediated experiences.

The activity of the space crew revolves around new media technologies, immersive, interactive and digitally augmented experiences found in the real-virtual continuum. Their portfolio includes a variety of XR projects (AR, VR, MR and interactive installations) that define a wide range of customized solutions, innovative and creative ways of visualization, interactive communication and new digitally augmented experiences.

Their mission is to create new experiences and digitally mediated connections that can positively contribute to the development of new forms of art and creative-innovative communication.

For this talk we will focus on a slice of our work that touches on our background as architects - mainly AR in urban interventions and the convergence of educational applications in immersive XR experiences and interactive installations.

Horizontal approach on - XR, metaverse, mixed reality, immersive, augmentation.

10am - 11am

Mania Aghaei Meibodi

Taubman College

Bio

Mania Aghaei Meibodi (Ph.D, Lic. Eng, M.Arch) is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and director of the Digital Architecture and Research Technologies (DART) at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. She is an architect with focus on computational design, hybrid robotic construction to material innovations. She develops disruptive digital technologies and robotic construction methods with additive manufacturing at its core, to help digitize construction and reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to the building industry.

Talk

Construction is facing crises of resource degradation, large co2 footprint and shortage of construction workers. Through sets of projects, this presentation will show how 3D printing and robotic construction will help address these issues and disrupt the construction industry . Computation will help us to design unimaginable forms and 3d printing will allow us to build forms that we could never build before.

11am - 11.30am - Morning tea break