CARL Talk Series: Embracing Change

Join us for the first in our CARL Talk Series, where we invite leading academics and industry experts to present their work and research around a theme, followed by an informal Q+A and refreshments.

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Embracing Change: Emerging technologies and their influence on the AEC industry

Invited Speakers:

Professor Andrew Vande Moere, Professor in Design Informatics, Research[x]Design/ Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven

When buildings become robots...
This talk will discuss our ongoing robotic deployments of adaptive architecture. What becomes possible when walls, ceilings, windows, and lights can dynamically move and respond to improve the health and wellbeing of all building occupants?

Hamidreza Rafizadeh, PhD Fellow at the School of Architecture and Built Environment QUT

Making Generative AI "Fabrication-Aware" for Physical Fabrication

This talk explores how generative AI can be integrated with robotic fabrication in architecture through a fabrication-aware data framework, using dry-stacked masonry walls as an experimental testbed for AI-driven generative architectural design.

Dr Shabnam Lotfian, Digital Innovation Consultant, ARUP

Diatoma: Biomimicry, Robotics, and Lightweight Architecture
This talk presents Diatoma, a research prototype exploring how biomimetic principles and robotic fabrication can inform lightweight architectural systems, and what this may offer emerging design and construction workflows in the AEC industry.