Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines

Curated Works:

Robert Adams, The Asclepius Machine: Alterity Beyond the Anthropocene | Sean Ahlquist, Social Sensory Playscape | Adam Fure, Matt Kenyon, TAP | Catie Newell, Wes McGee, Aaron Willette, Investigations in Free Form Glass Slumping | Glenn Wilcox, Anca Trandafirescu, c-LITH: Carbon Fiber Architectural Units | Wes McGee, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov, Daniel Tish, Infundibuliforms: Kinetic Tensile Surface Environments

Curated Video Installations:

Iris van Herpen of Atelier van Herpen and Philip Beesley of the Living Architecture Systems Group and University of Waterloo

Peer-Reviewed Projects

Sensing Protocols:

Chandler Ahrens, Christof Jantzen, Rajeunir | Kory Bieg, Watney Solid +/- Void | Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee, Microtherme | Rachel Dickey, Morganne Walker, Qualitative Robotics: Making a Case for Huggable Architecture | Christina Leigh Geros, Lee-Su Huang, Gregory Thomas Spaw, Jakob Marsico, Latent (e)Scapes | Michael Fox, Victor Zhang, MDES Students, Inno-Bubbles | Jason Kelly Johnson, Nataly Gattegno, Murmur Wall | Faysal Tabbarah, Almost Natural Shelter | George Themistokleous, Diplorasis: The Other Side of Vision

Data Protocols:

T. Jason Anderson, Keith Kaseman, dFOIL: Drone Deployment Station and Augmented Reality Application | Dana Cupkova, Andrea Salomon, Aman Tiwari, Aprameya Mysore, Contingent Landscapes | Adam Marcus, Glyphs: Drawing Automatic and Intuitive Agencies | Elisabeth van Overbeeke, Othy Vitswamba, Archip Ngumba Lobo, BeniAtlas | Maj Plemenitas, Cross Scale Embedding

Machinic Protocols:

Kory Bieg, Hybroot | Sebastián Caldera, Mauricio Loyola, Collaborative Design Between Academia and Industry in Chile | Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee, James Durham, Round Room | Yidong Ma, Yuxiang Zhang, Fused Synergy | Tsz Yan Ng, StereoNegative: a Tribute to Tony Smith | Jake Robert Read, Open RSEA | Jonathan Rule, Ana Morcillo Pallares, Panots & Mosaics: the digital handmade | Martin Self, Zachary Mollica, Pradeep Devadass, Exploiting Inherent Material Form | Timothy Sutherland, John Larmor, Mark Knutson, Grant Herron, Andrew Delle Bovi, Industrial Production Process Recast: Robotic Manipulation of Clay and Waterglass-Bonded Sand for Computationally Derived Variable Architectural Castings | Martin Tamke, Henrik Leander Evers, Esben Clausen Nørgaard, Scott Leinweber, Flemming Tvede Hansen, Filigree Robotics | Matthew A. Trimble, Screen Walls / deep variation as a platform for constructed speciation | Lei Yu, Zhongyuan Liu, Sai Xiao, Yanxin Wang, Yijiang Huang, Feng Xu, Yanchuan Liu, Liqun Zhao, VULCAN PAVILION: A Fully 3D Printed Vault Structure

Material Protocols:

Nancy Diniz, Frank Melendez, Embryonic Spaces: Living and Synthetic Matter for Wearable Devices | Eva Espuny, Bio-Inspired Fibrous Composite Chair | Alvin Huang, La Burbuja Lamp | Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones, Buoyant Ecologies: Performance-Driven Optimization of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Substrates | Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, Valeria Rybyakova, Liquid Actuated Elastomers: Soft Architectural Systems | Jane Scott, Programmable Knitting

Behavior Protocols:

Brandon Clifford, The McKnelly Megalith | Behnaz Farahi, Synapse: A Neuromorphic 3D Printed Body Architecture | Fengqi Li, Amber Bartosh, Wall Parley | Dimitris Papanikolaou, Bodyprint: Exploring Architecture as a Medium for Human Interaction | Satoru Sugihara, The Tower Pier: Integration of Generative and Optimization Algorithms in Agent-Based Computational Design

Autonomous Protocols:

Alan Cation, Clayton Muhleman, Swarming M.A.T.R. (Mobile Autonomous 3D Printing Robotics) | Alan Cation, Clayton Muhleman, Adithi Satish, SWARMSCAPERS: Distributive, Massive, & Autonomous Fabrication | Qi Xuan Li, The Ephemeral Landscape of Cyborg Infrastructure | Evangelos Pantazis, Emmanouil Vermisso, Jasmine Sadegh, Emerging Pattern Formation via Embodied Encoding of Bristle Bots