CAFA Media Architecture Workshop
Time:2019.9.2-2019.9.5
Speaker：M. Hank Haeusler          
               Martin Tomitsch 
 
M. Hank Haeusler 
Computational design is a post-disciplinary pursuit that operates at the intersection of science, engineering, architecture, and design. 
What new strategies, tools, methods, and workflows for conceptualising, generating and producing the built environment do and can computational designers use?
Do new opportunities to enhance design agency and realise more sustainable and resilient built environment design outcomes exist when thinking through technology?
How can the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry overcometechnical, economic, social, cultural, and regulatory barriers to implement new systems and processes? 
‘Computational Design: From Promise to Practice’ argues that to realise the full potential of computational design necessitates an approach that brings theory and research inquiry into closer dialogue with the realities and conditions of the design,delivery, and production of the built and urban environment as well as itslived-experiences.
This lecture presents findings published in our book with the same title which documents an action-research approach that underpins the Computational Design Education and Research program at the University of New South Wales, Australia and that simultaneously combines theory and practice, researchers and industry practioners, and action and reflection. The innovative range of theoretical positions and projects presented here demonstrate how a synergistic approach to transforming real-world industry challenges into academic research inquiries and learning opportunities can in-turn positively transform the AEC industryand 21st century cities.

Martin Tomitsch 
The Bauhaus School of Design is celebrating its 100th birthday as design is going through a transformation – from an art form to becoming a strategic process for solving complex problems and innovation. This talk will provide a brief history of design and its evolution since the founding of the Bauhaus School. It will unpack some of the myths associated with the now popular term “design thinking” and explain how design thinking has the potential to positively transform industries and economies. The talk will bring examples of how design thinking, as a toolbox of methods and as a way of thinking, can be used in architecture, art and design. The talk isbased on a book that has been co-authored by the speaker, “Design Think Make Break Repeat,” which describes 60 design methods along with case studies and free templates. 

CAFA Media Architecture Workshop Teaching Schedule