_ the speculative design: phygital & architectural technologies
tag: [media] [conversation] [phygital]
date: 20210616
external link: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett; youtube.providesng;
organiser/moderator: Provides Ng
speakers: Laure Michelon, Kaiho Yu, Nero Chenxuan He
20210616 /conversation/
He talks about “the speculative design: phygital & architectural technologies” at the Bartlett School UCL
Speculative Design is a roundtable seminar series that examines the meaning, impact, and applications of speculation in design. In finance, speculation refers to anticipatory actions that leverage information feedback to project multiple possible futures in order to guide decision making and maximize advantage. Translated into design, speculation engages principles of time complexity and interdisciplinary thinking, accounting for feedback across multiple scenarios and parameters to identify optimal outcomes. The series asks two central questions: what futures does speculative design imagine, and what are the futures of speculative design itself?
The seminar series is organized by Provides Ng, who invites contributors from around the world to engage in dialogue around intercultural perspectives and emerging discourses in speculative practice. Central to the series is the sharing of personal experiences, particularly the ongoing search for and redefinition of professional roles as interdisciplinary researchers, designers, and entrepreneurs.
This session brings together Laure Michelon of SCI Arc, Kaiho Yu of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Nero Chenxuan He of Virginia Tech to discuss their interdisciplinary trajectories from backgrounds in structural, electrical, civil, and energy engineering, as well as business, toward contemporary investigations in speculative design, architectural technologies, and phygital practices. Laure Michelon is an architectural technologist and designer whose work focuses on architecture, machine learning, energy analysis, and fashion. Kaiho Yu’s research and practice explore new media, digital simulation, and robotic technologies through continuous phygital exchange. Nero Chenxuan He develops workflows in automavision and phygital construction, examining how computational vision reshapes architectural production.
He talks about “the speculative design: phygital & architectural technologies” at the Bartlett School UCL
Speculative Design is a roundtable seminar series that examines the meaning, impact, and applications of speculation in design. In finance, speculation refers to anticipatory actions that leverage information feedback to project multiple possible futures in order to guide decision making and maximize advantage. Translated into design, speculation engages principles of time complexity and interdisciplinary thinking, accounting for feedback across multiple scenarios and parameters to identify optimal outcomes. The series asks two central questions: what futures does speculative design imagine, and what are the futures of speculative design itself?
The seminar series is organized by Provides Ng, who invites contributors from around the world to engage in dialogue around intercultural perspectives and emerging discourses in speculative practice. Central to the series is the sharing of personal experiences, particularly the ongoing search for and redefinition of professional roles as interdisciplinary researchers, designers, and entrepreneurs.
This session brings together Laure Michelon of SCI Arc, Kaiho Yu of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Nero Chenxuan He of Virginia Tech to discuss their interdisciplinary trajectories from backgrounds in structural, electrical, civil, and energy engineering, as well as business, toward contemporary investigations in speculative design, architectural technologies, and phygital practices. Laure Michelon is an architectural technologist and designer whose work focuses on architecture, machine learning, energy analysis, and fashion. Kaiho Yu’s research and practice explore new media, digital simulation, and robotic technologies through continuous phygital exchange. Nero Chenxuan He develops workflows in automavision and phygital construction, examining how computational vision reshapes architectural production.