The School of Architecture invites you to this year's MSCD thesis final presentations on Friday 01 May. At this link you will find a booklet with information about the reviews and details about each project. The day will be divided into three thematic sessions. A schedule is listed below for your reference.
View the link to the virtual presentation on Zoom here.
Session 1: Design Tools
Projects in this session reimagine the design process and its actors through new approaches to design participation, crowdsourcing, embodied virtuality, and generative design workflows. Reviewers: Dimitris Papanikolaou (UNC Charlotte), Mary-Lou Arscott, Ardavan Bidgoli, Josh Bard, and Dina El Zafaly.
8:00-8:45am | Vincent Mai | Toward Designing with Heterogeneous Values
8:45-9:30am | Hongtao Ma | A Mixed Modeling Environment Exploring Tangible and Digital Interactions for Iterative Design Modeling
9:30-10:15am | Weixin Qiu | An Inquiry into Crowdsourcing for Early-Stage Product Design
10:15-11:00am | Siyu Guo | A Generative Design Application Development Workflow for Architecture
——— 15 min break (11:00-11:15am) ———
Session 2: Data and Design
Projects in this session mobilize datasets large and small in conjunction with machine learning algorithms to generate, analyze, or build design. Reviewers: Andrew Heumann (Hypar), Ardavan Bidgoli, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Golan Levin, and Pedro Veloso.
11:15am-12:00pm | Zhihao Fang | Towards Multi-Drone Autonomous Construction via Deep Reinforcement Learning
12:00-12:45pm | Yufei Cheng | Data Processing in Using Machine Learning to Analyze Floor Layout Plan Design
12:45-1:30pm | Ian Friedman | Rethinking PropTech: Drawing Insights about the Real Estate Technology Industry through Technical Experimentation
1:30-2:15pm | Erik Ulberg | Crafting the Weights of a Convolutional Neural Network to Make a Line Drawing
——— 15 min break (2:15-2:30pm) ———
Session 3: Interactive and Immersive
Projects in this session explore embodied, material, and social aspects of computation to speculate about memory, pedagogy, and craft. Reviewers: Andres Burbano (Universidad de los Andes), Theodora Vardouli (McGill), Mary-Lou Arscott, Golan Levin, Dina El Zafaly, Larry Shea, and Molly Wright Steenson.
2:30-3:15pm | Yixiao Fu | Evoking Post-industrial Landscape Memories through Mixed Reality Soundscapes
3:15-4:00pm | Yun Hao | The Responsive Layer: Towards a Self-expressed Physical World with Digital Augmentation
4:00-4:45pm | Yi-Chin Lee | Hybrid Embroidery: Exploring Interactive Fabrication in Hand Crafts
4:45-5:30pm | Yaxin Hu | Children's Exploration with Social Robots in Digital Art Making