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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.
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.
FABRICITY XR is selected to be featured at the University of Colorado in Denver and the University of Hong Kong | ACADIA / CAADRIA Joint Exhibition
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.
Sina Mostafavi has been re-elected as an ACADIA Board of Directors member.
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.
Sina Mostafavi is delivering a Keynote at the Nevada Museum of Art.
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 Projects Were exhibited in First Friday Art Trail, TTU Urban Tech
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
Sina Mostafavi Chaired a Session at Digital Futures 2023 Closing Ceremony
Digital Futures Closing Ceremony 2023 - Sina Mostafavi
Araneo - luminescent bioplastic - in Neues Museum Nürnberg
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
Robotic Concrete 3D Printed Chair Exhibited in Dallas, ARCC Conference
Concrete 3D Printed Chair - Dallas - ARCC conference
Dr. Sina Mostafavi serves as an eVolo 2023 Skyscraper Competition jury member.
eVolo 2023 Skyscraper Competition
Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi will serve as one of the five jury members of eVolo 2023 Skyscraper Competition. eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2023 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. More information is available on the competition link: https://www.evolo.us/category/competition/
Call for Doctoral Positions in Design Computation and Architectural Robotics
Call for Doctoral Positions - GRA Fellowships - Hi-DARS lab
Funding is available for one or more multi-year Ph.D. and Research Assistantship (RA) positions within the Land Use, Design and Built environment (LDB) track of the Land Use Planning, Management and Design (LPMD) Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Texas Tech University. Funding will be focused on one or more of the following areas:
Fabrication Intelligence and Architectural Robotics
Integrated Data-Driven Design-to-Production
Computational Intelligence and Advanced Design Computation
Artificial Intelligence in Design and Fabrication
AR/VR/Mixed-Reality Assisted Design, Fabrication, and Assembly
Robotic 3D Printing and Hybrid Robotic Manufacturing Methods
Human-Robot Collaboration and Hybrid Intelligence in Robotic Fabrication
Material Intelligence and Circularity in Design-to-Construction Processes