The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) is celebrating the halfway mark of its multi-year SSHRC Partnership Grant with a Symposium from March 1-3, 2019 at OCAD University (OCAD U) in Toronto. Approximately 60 LASG researchers from Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand will gather with friends, collaborators and students to share their works in progress.
The Living Architecture Symposium comes to Toronto March 1-3. Photo by Luiz Felipe Souza via Unsplash.
On Friday, March 1, LASG researchers and graduate students will give presentations, hold poster sessions and engage in discussions. That evening, eminent interaction theorist and designer Paul Pangaro, Professor of the Practice in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver a keynote address on interaction design that includes iconic works by Gordon Pask. Presentations will continue through Saturday, March 2, including a noon keynote presentation by Katy Börner, Distinguished Professor of Engineering & Information Science at Indiana University. An evening dinner reception at the LASG studio will feature a demonstration of an immersive sound, light and motion environment, accompanied by multiple prototypes in progress by the Amsterdam 4DSOUND collective.
On Sunday, March 3, Toolbox Dialogue Initiative of Michigan State University will conduct ?Capacity Building Through Structured Dialogue,? a workshop that focuses on demarcating concepts relating to living architect...