08 March 2019, National Design Centre UNESCO Creative Cities of Design Public Forum was portrayed by media as one of the few “highlights” of Singapore Design Week, the event mandatory to attend for all engaged in contemporary design practices. Design magazine Wallpaper reported: “It’s not often that you’ll get the chance to hobnob with global …
12 – 14 April 2019, University of Wellington, New Zealand MInD Lab will be holding 3 day workshop “Sensory Urbanism: the Affordances of Virtual Reality (VR) and the insights beyond the technology” at incoming CAADRIA 2019 Conference at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From 12th to 14th of April, Anastasia Globa, Rui Wang, and …
27 March, Kardinia Park Geelong This year MAV Technology Annual Conference “Riding the Wave” will be held in Geelong Kardinia Park, 25 – 28 March. The discussion will include more than 29 international speakers to cover diverse ideas on how to transform local governments for the digital era. Conference will cover the topics: emerging technologies, …
Image Author: Yolanda Esteban composite Image from View of Geelong, Eugene Von Guerard and 5D City Explorer/Virtual reality by Anastasia Globa 2016 The project VITAL SIGNS – Smart City Living City, crafted by the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Deakin University and in collaboration with the City of Greater Geelong, the Geelong Gallery …
The MInD Lab hosted the first workshop on “urban responsiveness: swarm intelligence and the smart city” on 17th Dec, 2018. Participants include Deakin academic from School of IT, School of Architecture and Built Environment, School of Arts and Communication, and School of Engineering. Ideas were created around three potential areas: Smart Mobility Swarm Building Smart …
MInD Lab has hosted a half day workshop to explore and develop a new model of “collaborative/trans-disciplinary” PhD model for Deakin, which would act as a pilot for the University. The difference of this model, from the existing “interdisciplinary” PhDs, would not only be the development/formulation of the research problems (trans-disciplinary and impact driven), but also …
MInd Lab was officially launched on 30th Nov, 2018. Justin Madden gave a special lecture for MInD Lab’s launch on “Geelong’s brilliant future: opportunity and empathy”. He suggested Geelong should focus on becoming a “City of Wellbeing” at a special lecture hosted by the School of Architecture and Built Environment on Friday 30 November. …