DigitalFUTURES Keynote : Interactive Design

Interactive Design has exploded onto the architectural scene in recent years with a range of inspirational projects that have opened up a new field of research and design for architecture. With the lockdowns resulting from Covid-19, and with living spaces becoming classrooms and offices, the need for adaptive, interactive spaces has become increasingly apparent. This session brings together some of the most significant designers and thinkers in the field of interactive design. - Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo/Living Architecture Systems Group) -Guvenc Ozel (UCLA) -Ruairi Glynn (The Bartlett, UCL) -Moderated by: Behnaz Farahi (CSULB)

DigitalFUTURES Talk: Artificial Intelligence

After our DigitalFUTURES World workshops, we are gathering together the workshop instructors, starting with the topic of ArtificialIntelligence, to reflect on the topic. Speakers include: KaihoYu (DieAngewandte), SandraManninger (UMich), MatiasdelCampo (UMich), ImmanuelKoh (SUTD), TheadoreGalanos (AIT), WanyuHe (XKool), GuvencOzel (UCLA), BenjaminEnnemoser(UCLA), and HaoZheng (UPenn)

Guvenc Ozel Talks About Cyberphysical Architecture

Applied Computer Science Lecture Series

The Applied Computer Science Lecture Series features practitioners from a wide range of creative and scientific fields, all of whom incorporate applied computer science and technology at the core of their professional inquiry. Open to the entire Woodbury community, the lectures aim to foster dialogue around the increasing role of technology in society, its application across a diverse range of professional practices, the resulting explosion of creative and expressive modes of production, and the ethical and moral dilemmas that have emerged as technology has evolved.

The lecture series welcomed Güvenç Özel, an architect, artist, and technologist. He is a lead faculty member of IDEAS, a multidisciplinary research, and development platform in UCLA A.UD, and the principal of Ozel Office, an interdisciplinary design practice located in Los Angeles. His work is at the intersection of architecture, technology, and media. His projects and experimental installations were exhibited in museums and galleries in the USA and Europe such as the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and The Saatchi Gallery in London. His recent design and research on 3D printing was awarded one of the top prizes at NASA’s 3D Printed Habitats Competition. He’s the latest recipient of Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence grant for his cyberphysical installation Cypher, which is an interactive soft robotic sculpture that teleports the user to its interior through Virtual Reality. At UCLA IDEAS, besides teaching his own masters design studio, he continues his research on virtual reality, robotics, interactive spaces and sensing interfaces with support from leading companies such as Autodesk, Microsoft, Oculus, and others.

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