Authors and contributors
The authors and contributors that lend their expertise to this book come from diverse backgrounds in design, architecture, urban informatics, media and culture studies, engineering and information technology. They are illustrative of the wide research and professional community that contributes to media architecture, a field that relies on a myriad of different skill sets.
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Joel Fredericks
Joel Fredericks is a Lecturer in Design at The University of Sydney, Director of the Bachelor of Design (Interaction Design), urban planner, community engagement practitioner and researcher. His research is transdisciplinary and sits across the domains of media architecture, smart cities, and community engagement.
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Glenda Amayo Caldwell
Glenda Amayo Caldwell is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She is an architecture and design scholar, leading Industry 4.0 innovation through human-centred research in design robotics, media architecture, and Human-Building Interaction.
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Martin Tomitsch
Martin Tomitsch is a Professor and Head of the Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney, a founding member of the Media Architecture Institute and the Life-centred Design Collective, author of “Making Cities Smarter” and lead author “Design Think Make Break Repeat”.
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M. Hank Haeusler
M. Hank Haeusler is an Associate Professor at The University of New South Wales, Director of Computational Design, Director of the ARC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing, Deputy Director UNSW AI Institute, Head of Research, Foresight and Innovation at Giraffe Technology, and known as researcher, educator, and entrepreneur in media architecture and computational design through over 140 publications.
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Dave Colangelo
Dave Colangelo is Assistant Professor at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University and Director, Media Architecture Institute, North America. Dave is also a founding member of Public Visualization Studio. His work examines urban media environments as sites for critical and creative engagements with the city, public art, and information.
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Ava Fateh gen. Schieck
Ava Fatah gen. Schieck is Associate Professor, the director of Architectural Space and Computation PhD Programme, tutor for Architectural Computation at the Bartlett, UCL (UK), leading the creation and investigation of media architecture and human building interaction in living lab settings through spatial urban prototyping with local com- munities. Ava was the MAB conference and programme chair (2012-21).
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Marcus Foth
Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics at QUT leading interaction design research into digital media, smart cities and media architecture. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
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Luke Hespanhol
Luke Hespanhol is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The University of Sydney, Director of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts, artist, designer and researcher. His practice investigates the intersection of culture and technologies, through academic research, teaching, and collaborations with galleries, local government, and public art festivals.
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Marius Hoggenmüller
Marius Hoggenmüller is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at the University of Sydney and co-founder of the Urban Interfaces Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney, investigating the design of urban robotic interfaces. Marius has been an active researcher in the media architecture community since 2014.
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Gernot Tscherteu
Gernot Tscherteu is co-founder of the Media Architecture Institute and the Media Architecture Biennale Festival. His main interest lies in urban commons and digital tools for the self-organisation of resource communities in the domains of housing, mobility, food, and energy. He supports co-housing- and carsharing projects and energy communities at Gemeinschaffen.
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Kavita Gonsalves
Kavita Gonsalves combines art, design, communities, technology and participatory processes to creatively and collaboratively produce guerrilla placemaking projects: Multicoloured Dreams (FIN), the Bake Collective (IND) and TransHuman Saunter (AUS). Her PhD “Radical Placemaking” focuses on the use of emerging technologies as tools for marginalized communities to engage in creative place-making towards social justice.
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Elise Hodson
Elise Hodson is a Senior Tutor in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art (London) with a background in design history and culture. As a Post-doctoral Researcher at Aalto University (Finland), she worked with colleagues to examine social value and impacts of design, particularly in smart cities.
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Yu Kao
Yu Kao is an interaction designer and researcher. She has completed her PhD in interaction design for public spaces. She is passionate about exploring novel design methods and practices to facilitate inclusive and empathetic approaches to design. Her work has been influenced by participatory design and the concept of place.
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Michiel de Lange
Michiel de Lange is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. His research interest concern the intersections between digital media and urban culture. He is the co-founder of The Mobile City and the [urban interfaces] research group.
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Wen-Ying (Rei) Lee
Wen-Ying (Rei) Lee obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Cornell University. She adopts Research through Design approaches to explore Human-Robot Interaction that is not solely driven by utilitarian values. Her thesis work proposes a character-driven robot design approach as an alternative to design social robots.
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Jock McQueenie
Jock McQueenie is a QUT Industry Fellow who has pioneered the 3C project design methodology that brings together Community, Culture and Commerce. He has been designing and implementing 3C projects for 20+ years. Adding value to corporate social investment, Jock’s intermediary practice brokers unconventional partnerships for mutual benefit. His work was recognised with an Australian Good Design Award 2020.
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Michel Nader
Michel Nader is a designer, MA from Aalto University, interested in how societies interact with and are affected by design. His experience is in social impact of design, change in social systems and inclusivity in the design process. He enjoys collaborative projects, teamwork, creative methods and audiovisual methods for ethnographic research.
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Teija Vainio
Teija Vainio Ph.D. (information technology) has also studied architecture and art history. Currently she teaches at the Department of Design at Aalto University, Finland. Her research addresses two broad topics: human-technology interaction and experience design. Her current work focuses on the experience design methods and experience design in urban environments.
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Alexander Wiethoff
Alexander Wiethoff is a lecturer at the University of Munich and design manager at IMAGO Design GmbH, a design agency that develops products for the medical industry. He has a background in electrical engineering, architecture, UX design, and contemporary art. He enjoys conducting field studies, teaching at universities, and prototyping.