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Mediated Intelligence in Design

Director of MindLab keynote speaker at MSTAS 2022 in Turkey

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 …

Call for papers on Circular Economy and Built Environment

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 …

New Generation Emerging Technologies Graduate Program

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 …

A Spatially Intelligent Arts Centre at Geelong Design Week 2022

A Spatially Intelligent Arts Centre will explore novel approaches and applications to change an Art Centre building’s agency from a mere physical enclosure to a dynamic, spatially intelligent space. Join us for this interactive panel discussion where our multi-disciplinary team will be presenting interim findings and discussions around Geelong Art Centre’s ‘A Spatially Intelligent Arts Centre’ research project. …

MInD Lab at Geelong Design Week 2021

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 …

MInD Lab at World Science Festival 2021

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? …

The team of Deakin’s A+B researchers successfully completed funded project working in collaboration with the MindLab team

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 …

MindLab secured the City of Geelong Art Industry Commission for the year 2020

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 …

MindLab at UNESCO City of Design Subnetwork Meeting 2020

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 …

MInD Lab is a Gold Award Winner at 2020 Melbourne Design Awards

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 …