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NEWSWe are happy to welcome our presidential postdoctoral research fellow Sam Bourgault





CAAD Futures 2025 *KEYNOTE*
Catalytic Interfaces
July 2 - 4 2025  
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China




MILAN TRIENNALE
Inequalities, Exhibition piece DAFNE - human-machine-bacteria garden
May 13 - Nov. 9 2025
Milano, Italy




Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We welcome Sam Bourgault as a presidential postdoctoral research fellow at XAIA lab starting in Sept 2025. Her work is focusing on human-machine interaction using intuitive interfaces.



ARC 762: Extended Augmentation in Architecture
Reading Course for PhD students
This course discusses current state of the art of human-computer interaction, interactive fabrication and extended reality.



MILAN TRIENNALE- 26th of April - 16th of May
VENICE BIENNALE - 8th of May



ARC 379: Immersive Design
This course introduces the fundamentals of immersive design through the interplay of audiovisual elements, emphasizing real-time interaction and spatial simulation.




ARC 373: Creative Computation & Robotics
This course introduces the fundamentals of robotics through the lens of creativity, exemplified through robotic painting and artistic machine creation. 




We are happy to receive the Magic Grant from Princeton University!




KEYNOTE LECTURE     CONFERENCE     WORKSHOP     COURSE     EXHIBITION     AWARDS     



SELECTED PAST EVENTS

2025


CO-CREATING MACHINES *KEYNOTE*
AI in Design and Construction for a Changing Planet
Apr. 3 - 5 2025  
Academy Center TUM Raitenhaslach, Burghausen, Germany  




Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art (EACVA): How robotics and a.i. could influence creativity *KEYNOTE*
Rethinking Tools in Digital Fabrication: A Dialogue Between the Human Hand and the Robotic Grip
15:45 - 16:45 (CET), Jan 31 2025


TU Vienna - Structural Systems Lecture Series 2024 *KEYNOTE*
XR and the future of construction
18:00 (CET), Jan. 15 2025
TU Vienna, Austria


2024



Tectonics Seminar 2024

Humans : Machines : Materials
10.2024
Michigan University, Michigan, USA

Princeton Robotics Seminar 2024
Rethinking digital construction: a collaborative future of humans, machines, and craft
10.2024
Princeton University, Princeton, USA  




Invited Lecture KIT
Extended Reality in Architecture 
07.2024
Kyoto Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan 

Software release event
COMPAS XR - opensource library for extended reality in AEC 
06.2024
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 


Workshop on augmented reality for digital craft

June 7 2024
Kyoto Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Workshop on augmented reality strategies for collaborative robotics

May 21-25 2024
ROBARCH 2024 | Robots in Architecture | University of Toronto (UofT), Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and the University of Waterloo (UW) 


Design++ Lecture Series 2024

Strange Comfort: Intuitive Machines and Robotic Gardeners
May 13 2024
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
PhD level reading course
Augmented human, extended machine
09-12.2024
Princeton University 


Master thesis supervision
An XR App Using Motion Capture for Bending-Active Structure 
Chia Hsuan Chao, Wataru Nomura
06.2024 - 09.2024
Princeton University,  ETH Zurich 

Seminar
Embodied Computation
01.2024 - 05.2024
Princeton University



Seminar
Immersive Realities
04.2024
Princeton University,  ETH Zurich








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