Professor Tuba Kocaturk, director of MindLab, was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at MSTAS 2022: XVI Digital Design in Architecture National Symposium. The topic of the symposium is Digital Ecosystems and Architecture. Professor Kocaturk will give a keynote titled Ambient Intelligence: A Trans-disciplinary Model of Innovation for the Built Environment in June 2022 …
Director and deputy director of the MindLab, Prof Tuba Kocaturk and A/Prof M. Reza Hosseini, are selected to serve as Special Issue Editors of the Journal of Building Research & Information titled Towards a Circular Transition of the Built Environment: Systemic and Transdisciplinary Models, Methods and Perspectives. This special issue is the first to provide a …
Joint grant application to CSIRO New Generation Emerging Technologies Graduate Program, developed collaboratively between Deakin’s School of IT, School of Communication and Creative Arts and School of Architecture & Built Environment, has been successful. The consortium will be receiving $1,8M funding to establish the “Empowering Human within the Metaverse” as a transdisciplinary PhD program, that …
Deakin University’s MInD Lab will present the Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) during Geelong Design Week 18-28 March, 2021. On show is a virtual model of Geelong’s Western Beach area and its hidden past freshly uncovered from the archives. To register for first access and to ask the creators about the design and technology behind …
March 25, 2021, Concert Hall QPAC, Queensland Museum Returning to Brisbane 24 – 28 March, World Science Festival 2021 will take a fresh look at the concept of Extremes and Adaptations – what seemed like abstract ideas last year are now our everyday stark reality. How will science lead us out of our current dilemmas? …
January, 2021, Geelong The project titled “Digital narrative for place making: Diachronic Modelling of the Dennys Lascelles Concrete Wool Store; Geelong,” funded by the internal A+B Deakin Seed Grant, was successfully completed at the end of 2020 school year. The team members include: Dr Md Mizanur Rashid (team lead), Dr Surabhi Pancholi, Dr Chin Koi …
13 November 2020, Geelong Project Title: (In)tangible Heritage of the Greater Geelong: Public City Space as Virtual Museum Deakin University MindLab teamed up with the artist/curator Malcolm McKinnon to create interactive digital heritage platform that will transform and connect historically significant public spaces of the City of Greater Geelong into virtual museum by using Matterport-3D …
The social, smart and sustainable design of future cities The UNESCO City of Design Subnetwork Meeting 2020, which was hosted by Graz in cooperation with St. Étienne, focused on the social, smart and sustainable aspects of urban development. From October 5th to October 7th the conference took place as a hybrid form – online via Zoom and …
We are thrilled to announce that the MInD Lab has received a gold award at the 2020 Melbourne Design Awards for its latest project “Experiencing (In)tangible Heritage Through eXtended Reality: Western Beach Park Geelong” In partnership with the City of Greater Geelong and our technology developer Darkspede, the project is part of the newly revitalised …
Deakin Waterfront Geelong, 9th January 2020 Together with the City of Greater Geelong representatives, MindLab hosted the first workshop “Digital Placemaking + Green Spine Project” at Deakin Waterfront on January 9th. The aim of the workshop was to discuss potential collaboration that will utilise of location-specific digital technologies to create new services, products and experiences …