Marirena Kladeftira is invited as a guest speaker in Hi-DARS lab’s TALK SERIES
Hi-DARS talk series as part of the ARCH 5301 Special Problems course.
Hi-DARS lab’s TALK SERIES
We are excited to welcome Marirena Kladeftira as our next guest speaker in the Hi-DARS Talk Series at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture. As the Inaugural Innovation Fellow at the Department of Design Tech, AAP at Cornell University, Marirena brings a unique perspective that bridges design, fabrication, and human craft through technology. Her work focuses on developing adaptive, eco-socially sustainable systems and innovative models of cooperation with construction robots.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 at 9:30am CST
Location: Room 601, HCoA building, Texas Tech University | Zoom: https://texastech.zoom.us/j/95510070973
*This lecture will be held both online and in person for TTU HCoA ARCH 5301. If you are interested in joining online, please send us a message.
Marirena Kladeftira is an Inaugural Innovation Fellow at the Department of Design Tech, AAP at Cornell University. By bridging design, fabrication, and human craft through technology, her work aims to create adaptive, eco-socially sustainable systems and ways of making. Through multi-disciplinary collaborations, she has contributed to advancements in digital manufacturing, material processing methods, new modular systems, as well as innovative models of cooperation with construction robots. Her work has earned recognition through awards, invited talks, and exhibitions at prestigious venues, including the Venice Biennale, ZAZ Bellerive Museum, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the Swiss Sustainability Forum. Marirena holds a doctorate from ETH Zurich as a fellow of the NCCR Digital Fabrication. Before joining Cornell, she was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, focusing on human-robot collaboration for reuse and leading a research team at the Lab for Creative Computation.
