Speakers
The symposium features a diverse range of interested stakeholders from both the industry and the academia. The relative novelty of the field and the lack of interdisciplinary research, and recent health issues internationally have resulted in the use of the online-symposium methodology, which is specific to my PhD research[1]. It is an extension of my urban design practice in major infrastructure.
Symposium Moderator
Colin Polwarth
Colin Polwarth is a Registered Architect with over 25 years experience in the design and management of a wide variety of projects. He is Director of Studio Colin Polwarth which specialises in architecture, infrastructure design, urban design, masterplanning and transdisciplinary expertise in art.
Speakers
Dr Adam Kaasa
Dr Adam Kaasa is a Senior Tutor (Research) in the RCA School of Architecture. He is Programme LeadMRes RCA: Architecture Pathway andLiason TutorCritical & Historical Studies. Adam’s work moves between urban theory, facilitation and performance. As an interdisciplinary scholar he specialises in the intersection of culture, history and inequality in the city, foregrounding the role of architecture and design.
https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-adam-kaasa/
Despina Papadopoulos
Despina Papadopoulos is researcher and designer whose work is concerned with the move towards disembodiment and the taming of materiality, the me-not-me of machine-body assemblages and the space where embodied cognition meets machine learning. Her pioneering work in wearable technology and e-textiles has resulted in collaborations with a wide range of organisations, such as Ralph Lauren Innovation, Lubrizol Material Sciences, Nivea Research, and NCR, and forms the basis of her practice led PhD research at the Royal College of Art, supported by a National Productivity and Investment Fund AHRC scholarship. She has taught at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program for 14 years and is founding faculty of SVA’s Design for Social Innovation MFA. https://pixelpeppy.com/, http://principled-design.com/
Dr Chris Thorpe
Dr Chris Thorpeis Acting Head of Program intelligent Mobility, RCA School of Design. He also the Director of Intelligent Design Associates Limited, established in 2011, which is a strategic interdisciplinary 3D design studio focused on the commercial ethical-technical design space.Chris’s practice and research interests span sustainable products and system design, as well as the paradigm of new technology and its relevance to human culture, experience and value.
https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-chris-thorpe/
Kam Rehal
Kam Rehal is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Graphic and Digital Design at the School of Design, University of Greenwich and a PhD candidate in the RCA School of Communication. His research interrogates emerging perspectives of place – encountered within the current social and political context – and questions the role and responsibility of the subjective researcher within local communities. Prior to his academic appointment he led the graphic design team at the Natural History Museum and was senior designer at Imperial War Museums. More recently, he designed, co-edited and contributed works to the flash fiction collection ‘Story Cities: A City Guide for the Imagination’ – engaging the physical printed book to facilitate reading as a narrative spatial practice. Kam’s practice-research engages graphic design, writing and making, situated within the theoretical and creative contexts of conversation, place, participation and performance.
RCA Researchers
MA Design Students
Who have provided design scenarios with visual material to stimulate design strategy formulation and discussion on the online portal.
Anna Pittrich, Marie Torrens, Patryk Musielak, Seok-woo Choe, Tianyu Wu, YoungJae Kim.
Doctoral Training Researchers
Researchers, the list of whom includes architecture, communications, IMDC, and service design students, as well as others, who will ask the panellists various challenging questions
Supervisors & Concluding Speakers
Dr Artur Grisanti Mausbach
is an architect and urban planner committed to design, architecture, practice, education, and research. Artur brings his experience of multidisciplinary work to collaborative research projects addressing the challenges of human transport and mobility in the 21st century. Artur is a research supervisor and a project leader at IMDC.
Dr Jon Goodbun
teaches History and Theory as well as Science and Technology Studies and works as a tutor on the MA Environmental Architecture at RCA. His teachings and research explore the tension between the planetary and the personal, to develop sites and programmes; both are critical and operative and test the possibilities of spatial research.
Groups of interest such as disabled persons, minority groups (e.g. LGBTI), cyclists, pedestrians, public transport users, motorcyclists, oppositional stakeholders, stakeholders in developing economies, minority racial groups, aged cohorts, and youth groups have been consulted, using various methods, by industry, academia, and the government regarding their acceptance or disapproval of AV technology. Many longitudinal reports are available; some of these are identified in the ‘Symposium Literature Review’.