Sina Mostafavi serves on the DigitalFutures 2024 Awards Committee.

Application for the Young DigitalFUTURES Young Award, Project Award, and Coding Award is open:

Application deadline: June 12, 2024

Applications submission to:

● Email: award@digitalfutures.world

● Website: digitalfutures awards nomination 2024

For more information please visit:

https://www.digitalfutures.world/awards-nomination-2024/

Award Selection Committee:
Dan Luo (Chair), The University of Queensland, Australia
Biayna Bogosian, Arizona State University, USA
Chao Yan, Tongji University, China
Mariana Popescu, TU Delft, Netherlands
Ding Wen ’Nic‘ Bao, RMIT University, Australia
Sina Mostafavi, Texas Tech University, USA

As part of the Future of Architectural Education session at the EAAE/ARCC Conference 2024, Dr. Asma Mehan (Assistant Professor) and Dr. Sina Mostafavi (Associate Professor) presented a paper titled "Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Inclusivity: Methodological Innovations in Architectural Practice and Pedagogy." The conference, held from 23 - 26 May 2024 at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark, featured their research on innovative methodologies aimed at enhancing collaboration and inclusivity in architectural education and practice.

As part of the Innovative Materials and Construction session at the EAAE/ARCC Conference 2024, Dr. Sina Mostafavi (Associate Professor), Edgar Montejano and Bahar Bagheri (LPMD Ph.D. students at TTU HCoA), Cole Howell (Student Assistant and TTU HCoA Graduate), Ali Etemadi (Dessau Institute of Architecture Graduate), and Dr. Asma Mehan (Assistant Professor), presented a paper titled "Robotic Concrete 3D Printing Continuous Toolpath Planning: From Single Curve to Voxel-Based Systems for Design-to-Production of Urban Furniture." The research summarizes and showcases the advancements in Concrete 3D Printing and the methods developed over the past years at Texas Tech in various projects.

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Research Assistant (RA) to join our interdisciplinary project, WindCraft, team at the Hi-DARS lab. Candidates can have a background in Civil Engineering, Mechanical engineering, or Architecture, with a keen interest in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and wind simulation. Additionally, candidates with a passion for advanced manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing and computational design will be given preference.

As part of the Digital Technology: Community and Urbanism session at the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) 112th Meeting in Vancouver, Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi presented the paper titled "FabriCity-XR: A Phygital Lattice Structure Mapping Spatial Justice – Integrated Design to AR-Enabled Assembly Workflow." The paper is presented on behalf of co-authors Assistant Professor Dr. Asma Mehan, Ph.D. student Edgar Montejano, and student assistants Cole Howell and Jessica Stuckemeyer.

"On AI & Architecture: THE PLAN Journal Publishes Co-Authored Article by Asma Mehan and Sina Mostafavi on Visual Tropes, Verbal Biases, and Geo-Specificity"

Cristina Nan is invited asHa guest speaker in i-DARS lab’s TALK SERIES

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

International Journal of Architectural Computing

ACADIA / IJAC SPECIAL ISSUE

Ecological Levers: On Degrees of Autonomy and Interdependence

Brodey Myers joins Hi-DARS lab as teaching assistant in Arch5334 Advanced Technology Course.

Hi.DARS lab is awarded the SCP 2024 Grant for the WindCraft Project.

Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi and Assistant Professor Dr. Asma Mehan presented in a panel at the closing event of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Hosted by ECC, the event, titled "Shaping the City: Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities," unfolded at the iconic Palazzo Michiel del Brusà in Strada Nova, Italy, on November 24–25, 2023.

At the ACADIA / CAADRIA Joint Exhibition, FABRICITY XR – Phygital Mapping of Spatial Justice is selected to be featured at the University of Colorado in Denver and the University of Hong Kong.

Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi has been invited to chair a paper session titled 'ACADIA 2023' at the University of Colorado in Denver. He has also been re-elected as a member of the Board of Directors for another two-year term spanning 2024 and 2025.

Keynote at Nevada Museum of Art

On September 15th, 2023, Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi was invited as a keynote speaker to deliver a talk at the DICE 2023 Conference in Reno, Nevada, at the Museum of Art.

HYBRID CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTS

Integrated Design to Robotic Production & AR-Enabled Assembly Systems

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EXHIBITION @ First Friday Art Trail

December 1, 2023 - 18:00 to 21:00 CST

Urban Tech, 1120 Main St,

Lubbock, TX 79401

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Participants:

Katie Edwards, Viviana Quezada, Tahmures Ghiyasi | Timothy A. Estrada, Tyler Glass, Thomas Mindheim, Timothy Tipparach, | Alexander Garza, David Nelson, Jakob Wiesner, Chance Welles | Nathan Kendrick, Corrine Mckevitt, Matthew A. Phenix, Nathaly Ruvalcaba

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Research Assistants:

Edgar Montejano (GRA) | Cole Howell (RA)

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Instructor:

Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi

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ARCH 5354 Advanced Architectural Technology II – Fall 2023

Digital Futures Closing Ceremony 2023 - Sina Mostafavi

Araneo - luminescent bioplastic - in Neues Museum Nürnberg!

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"Which new materials are needed today and in the future, and how can they be produced and used sustainably? The design exhibition Material+ approaches these questions through research projects, applications and speculative designs."

Materiability is part of the exhibition with "Araneo" a robotically fabricated piece of luminescent bioplastic. https://buff.ly/3OrH7oY

Students: Toni Pasternak, Anian Till Stoib, Iwan Mazlan, Mohamed Mansour, Jakob Emmerling, Gulfia Kutlahmetova

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Manuel Kretzer, Prof. Dr. Sina Mostafavi

Exhibition Preparation: Virginia Binsch, Luise Kluge, Joan Prange

Photos: Annette Kradisch/Neues Museum Nürnberg, 2023

It all begins with an idea.