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Hearing Architecture
Hearing Architecture
I had a great conversation with Daniel Moore on the Hearing Architecture Podcast, during which we delved into the fusion of architecture, technology, and education. In my work, I focus on how computational technologies such as VR, AI, and parametric design can revolutionize architectural design and learning. If you are interested, please check out our discussion on these innovative approaches and their impact on the field. I am eager to hear your thoughts and experiences regarding integrating technology with architecture and education.
Listen to the full interview now!
Hack the evening: New technologies and design
Hack the evening: New technologies and design
Focusing on the cutting edge of design, and chatting with the designers about some of the work on display that feature innovative and interactive experiences including artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality, and the role they play in place making and design.
I was invited to speak at The Edge, State Library of Queensland, discussing the role of new technologies in architecture and place-making. From the impact of Artificial Intelligence to the immersive experiences of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, we explored how these cutting-edge innovations are revolutionizing the architectural landscape! Huge thanks to Michelle Brown, Kavita Gonsalves, and Nicholas Kamols.
"My Graphi Story" challenge
"My Graphi Story" challenge
My research story has been chosen as one of the jury's favourites in the Graphisoft Community's "My Graphi Story" challenge! Thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged me throughout my research journey. Check out my story here!
Jury Member MAB Student Award
Jury Member MAB Student Award
I'm pleased to share that I have been selected to serve on the jury for the MAB student awards 2023. It's a tremendous honor to be a part of such a respected event that recognizes the academic accomplishments and hard work of the upcoming generation of talented minds. I am excited to see the innovative and inspiring projects that the students have in store for us this year, and I am looking forward to the opportunity to evaluate and recognize their hard work. This will undoubtedly be an incredible experience, and I am grateful for the chance to contribute to the recognition of these outstanding individuals.
Editorial Board Member of JDS
Editorial Board Member of JDS
Green the City at the ekka 2022
Green the City at the ekka 2022
Last night I had the opportunity to present my research project "into the media woods" at the Green the City activation at the Ekka. The project aims to teach students to embrace the well-being of the natural ecosystem in urban environments.
A range of speakers offered their big idea for Brisbane in 5-minute pitches. I would like to express my gratitude to Catherine Simpson and the Green the Street team. Thank you for having me.
Brisbane Computational Design Group
Brisbane Computational Design Group
Join Jordan Haimes and me for the Brisbane Computational Design Group BCDG Restart Event Wed 27 July 2022.
Jordan will discuss the "Cross River Rail – Digital Network Approach." and I am excited to talk about my research "Exploring Media Architecture Design in virtual design environments" in an education context and showcase some amazing student Media Architecture projects.
I am honoured that my research profile was published through in QUTs Research Update in May 2022 (see HDR rising stars). It is flattering to receive this recognition that validates my research interests in education and architecture and acknowledges my achievements during my PhD journey.
I am delighted that the AECURN Community shared my research profile.
Live-Interview with Gostralia/Gozealand
Live-Interview with Gostralia/Gozealand
On Monday, March 22nd, 2021 I was interviewed about my PhD research and my experience at QUT. My doctoral thesis topic is: "Exploring media architecture education with virtual design environments tools".
Media Architecture Biennale 2020/21 Workshop: “Augmenting Cities and Architecture with Immersive Technologies”.
Media Architecture Biennale 2020/21 Workshop: “Augmenting Cities and Architecture with Immersive Technologies”.
Organizers:
Callum Parker, The University of Sydney
Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney
Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology
Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University
Together with an international group of researchers in the field of human-computer interaction, media architecture, and urban informatics, we organise a workshop at MAB 2020/21.
We invite architects, designers, artists, academia, students, industry, media producers, technologists, psychologists, community practitioners and other interdisciplinary participants to help shape the discourse around and practice of DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture.
Themes
Themes
Tools, Services, Building Blocks and Case Studies of different types of DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture.
Methods and Methodologies of engaging in DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture Processes, Platforms & Approaches.
Explorations and reflections of Social and Ethical Dimensions/Inquiries of Allegories, Entanglements, Speculative Practice through DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture.
Cross River Rail Experience Centre
Cross River Rail Experience Centre
As part of our reoccurring Urban Informatics Friday meeting, we visited "The Cross River Rail Experience Centre".
The Centre is a community engagement and education hub developed in partnership with Queensland Museum, providing detailed project information, digital engagement experiences and learning opportunities for visiting members of the public. Thanks to our great host, Jordan Haimes, we got many exciting insides about the Cross River Rail project.
I am looking forward to future collaborations.
The QLD AECURN SYMPOSIUM
The QLD AECURN SYMPOSIUM
I am thrilled that I have been selected to speak about my PhD Research at the AECURN Qld 2021 Symposium on 16th February 2021, along with ten other Queensland-based Urban Early Career Researchers.
In November 2020, I was invited to talk about my research among a few other early career researchers in the field of media architecture.
What questions are being asked in the field of Media Architecture and how are researchers trying to answer them?
In this MAB meetup, we will bring together early-career researchers from around the world to discuss their research topics and processes, and share their multiple perspectives on the inter-disciplinary field of Media Architecture. The aim of this online session is to showcase current developments in the research of media architecture and promote international and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Audience members are welcome to join the conversation and ask questions via the Zoom chat. Join us!
This meet up is curated by:
Luke Hespanhol, Morgana Braga, Ava Fatah
Speakers:
Hira Sheikh – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Waldemar Jenek – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kavita Gonsalves – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Marius Hoggenmueller – University of Sydney, Australia
Effie Kostopoulou – The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
André Afonso – The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
Geertje Slingerland – Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Anke von der Heide – TU Berlin and HAW Hamburg, Germany
Zach Melzer – Concordia University, Canada
Jeanette Cosentini – Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Moderator:
Luke Hespanhol – University of Sydney, Australia
Guest Editors
Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia
Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia
Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea
Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities
Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities
I am excited to be part of a guest-editing team for a focus section in the journal Interaction Design & Architecture (s) (IxD&A) with outstanding researchers from Australia and Korea.
Topics of Interest
Topics of Interest
We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Augmenting humans in future cities
Digital heritage and preservation
Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects
Perspectives from literature
How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc)
Remote collaboration
The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities
Smart cities with digital twin technologies
TsingHua University Workshop
TsingHua University Workshop
I was invited to TsingHua University to present my Ph.D. research as part of the joint Workshop on Immersive Technology.
"Designing media architecture with augmented reality and virtual reality tools"
We had the chance to visit the future lab and see their amazing work. Thanks to the organizers of the future lab and everybody who was involved!
For the second time, we ran our workshop “Augmenting Cities and Architecture with Immersive Technologies”. This time at ISMAR 2019 in Beijing, China.
We invite interested parties from a variety of backgrounds to participate and join our workshop to discuss how Immersive Technologies can best contribute to Augmenting Cities and Architecture. Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) have the potential to augment experiences within cities and the process of designing architecture. Moreover, the 5G network which has low-latency and fast speed has begun. However, more work is needed to understand specific applications within these areas and how they can be designed. Therefore, the main aim of the workshop is to discuss and ideate use-cases for creating situated immersive AR, VR, and MR applications for the purpose of making cities more engaging and to help design the cities of the future over 5G network.
Organizers:
Callum Parker, The University of Sydney
Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney
Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University
Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology
Junseong Bang, University of Science & Technology
Radical Placemaking: Immersive, Experiential and Activist Approaches for Marginalised Communities
Radical Placemaking: Immersive, Experiential and Activist Approaches for Marginalised Communities
I'm delighted that our contribution to the conference "CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART, MEDIA" is now available as online-presentation. I thank the whole team (Marcus Foth, Glenda Caldwell) for the great teamwork, especially to Kavita Gonsalves who is driving the project.
Placemaking is the process where institutions and communities upgrade neighbourhoods and public spaces through physical and creative interventions (Project for Public Spaces (PPS), 2007). Due to limitations of place, time and presence, this process includes a few and excludes many (Arnstein, 1969; Cardinal, 2006). Even then, the excluded and marginalised engage in subtle tactics of resistance (de Certeau, 2011) and produce their city (Jacobs, 1992). This paper proposes the concept of Radical Placemaking as a placemaking tactic of the marginalised where the term ‘Radical’comes from Paulo Freire’s seminal work ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’(2005). The elements of ‘Radical Placemaking’are categorised into ‘who’,‘how’and ‘what’.
I am was invited to be part of the Panel discussion at the MAB meetup organised by Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. I was happy to contribute to an exciting debate on Media architecture in the University context.
Media architecture has made its way into teaching and research at universities. This includes the design of media content at art academies, the architectural integration into urban space, technical implementation, and software development in the disciplines of event technology or computer science. In addition, some universities have been able to install media facades, often as part of a research project. During the integration phase as well in the long term, they all face completely different challenges, such as maintenance, curating of content, or changing responsibilities after the completion of a project. So how do you meet such challenges in a university context and what solutions have been already found? And ultimately how to teach and research this transdisciplinary field?
Participants:
- Marius Hoggenmüller
- Ava Fatah gen. Schieck
- Waldemar Jenek
- Dave Colangelo
- Dr. Patrick Tobias Fischer
OzCHI 2020 Paper Reviewer
OzCHI 2020 Paper Reviewer
I was asked to be a paper reviewer at OzCHI 2020. OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds and include interaction designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists.
Australian-German Science and Innovation Day 2019
Australian-German Science and Innovation Day 2019
I was invited to be part of a panel discussion at Australian-German Science and Innovation Day 2019 at Customs House in the heart of Brisbane’s CBD. Thanks to our amazing panel chair Nicolas Mandel we were allowed to share our Australian-German PhD story. Join our newly formed Australian-German Research Student Network at https://au-de-student.net/
MAB 2018
MAB 2018
I had the chance to be part of MAB 2018 which took place in Beijing, China from 13-16 November, 2018 at Central Academy of Fine Arts . It was a great opportunity to meet creative people from all over the world who are excited by research, science, architecture, media architecture human-computer interaction, education and emerging technologies. I was able to volunteer at MAB2018 in the student volunteer program, and besides, we ran our workshop:
“Augmenting Cities and Architecture with Immersive Technologies”.
“Augmenting Cities and Architecture with Immersive Technologies”.
Organizers:
Callum Parker, The University of Sydney
Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney
Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology
Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University
In 2018 and 2019 I had the opportunity to volunteer for the Green the Street Project at the Ekka in Brisbane.
Green the street’s aim is: To create greener, more inclusive, walkable and cycling focussed, cooler and sustainable streets in our cities.
How?
Through advocacy, major installations, street planting parties and connecting our growing network.
Why?
To make more safe, walkable and cyclable suburbs
To cool our city and suburbs
To create habitat corridors for wildlife, critters and pollinators (birds and bees)
To empower our communities to connect
To provide everyday interactions with nature for yourself and your community
Nature strips for climate change focus on supporting street trees and planting native shrubs, grasses and groundcovers for wildlife habitat. (And they’re better for people too.)
Places the Virtual Reality Festival
Places the Virtual Reality Festival
During the Places the Virtual Reality Festival, I organised a learning experience for students of the University of applied sciences Bochum. Students developed concepts for an empty shop in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf, Germany.
The design steps and results could be viewed live on a screen and in virtual reality by the visitors. Besides, Visitors were able to contribute their ideas or take part in the 3D modelling themselves. On the one hand, the students examined how new media influences the design process and at the same time, they were able to receive feedback from visitors.
“When a colleague drew my attention to the Places _ VR Festival, I thought the event was a great opportunity to develop a VR project together with students from the Faculty of Architecture at Bochum University of Applied Sciences. I approached the event with relatively low expectations and saw it as a public forum for the students to present their projects. All the more, I was pleasantly surprised when a multitude of interesting networking and cooperation opportunities arose during the festival days.”
Exhibition: "Architektur Digital"
Exhibition: "Architektur Digital"
I curated the interdisciplinary exhibition "Architektur Digital" in the winter garden of the UnPerfekthaus in Essen, Germany. The change to new technologies is changing work and communication in the professional field of architecture. I taught together with Dominik Kraatz an advanced CAD course at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. We employed several techniques from various 3D software. The exhibition shows design-posters, portfolios and video of the students and could be visited until March 27, 2018.
Inzept3d
Inzept3d
From 2016 till 2018, I have been part of Start-up Inzept3D. The browser-based software supports the design process, has been available at https://inzept3d.com since then. The solution enables users to create interactive 3D visualizations at low cost without expert knowledge. The interactivity of the design presentation simplifies communication with the client. Afterwards, users can adjust the building orientation and materials, do sun studies, or create a virtual tour through the model. A rendered draft can be shared through a link to a customer, who can view the interactive 3D visualization on the PC, tablet or smartphone regardless of the platform. Dominik Kraatz and his team, consisting of Sascha Sohn, Amir Familian, Inga Jasper and I, are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE), the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Department of Architecture at Bochum University of Applied Sciences.
AMM-Symposium ColourID
AMM-Symposium ColourID
As part of my master studies, we organise a Symposium on colour-strategies with architecture gallery Aedes in Berlin, Germany.
Perception and the use of colors based on individual experience and perception intention. Color impressions are kept in the brain and are the result of a protected system. The AMM symposium "colourID" dealt with questions of the social meaning and spatial influence of colors. It means the meaning of color as an expression in text and space. Architects, scientists, artists and communication experts and through the guidelines of rights and communication This is about color as a strategic tool. How does one own identity with color? How can color manipulate? What is the significance of color in times of digital transformation? Who is the world of the megatrends in color for fashion and industry? And what role does that play for architecture and communication?
Lecture Series
Lecture Series
As an employee of Dipl.-Ing. Eva Paar at the University of applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund I had the unique opportunity to help design and organise some of the well-known lecture series at the School of Architecture. Speakers from established architecture studios gave exciting lectures on various projects.
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