Dr Ruairi Glynn | Interactive Architecture Lab
Practicing installation artist and Director of MArch Design for Performance & Interaction – Ruairi Glynn has exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Centre Pompidou Paris, the National Art Museum of China Beijing, Ars Electronica in Linz and the Tate Modern, London. He has worked with leading cultural and research institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Medical Research Council and BBC and built public installations for commercial clients including Twitter, Nike, Arup, Buro Happold, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He often works collaboratively with artists, architects, and choreographers including Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, New Movement Collective, onedotzero, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Tellart, and Alma-nac Architects.

Dr Vasilija Abramovic  | Interactive Architecture Lab
Architect, researcher, tutor and Exhibitions Director at the Interactive Architecture Lab, Vasilija’s interests are in design and fabrication of responsive environments with recent exhibitions in France, Netherlands and Belgium. Her PhD Thesis used meta-material kinetic structures to explore an “Artificial Life Approach to Interactive Architecture” that has been published in conferences and journals, most recently at ALIFE 2019, ACADIA 2018, and eCAADe 2017. Vasilija is a scientific committee member and editorial board member for scientific journals and has held academic roles across several universities such as Faculty of Architecture in Prague, University of Westminster and the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Fiona Zisch | Interactive Architecture Lab
Architect and experimental psychologist with experience in film production design and designing for extreme environments — Fiona Zisch researches the cognition, experience, and reciprocity of architectural space, bodies, and movement. She works between the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at UCL and the Bartlett School of Architecture. She also teaches undergraduate Experimental Psychology at UCL. Fiona speaks at and organises international architecture and neuroscience conferences and festivals, has collaborated on a number of multidisciplinary research projects, and acts as a consultant for architecture and technology companies. She has published papers and book chapters in an array of research fields.

Jessica In
Originally from Melbourne Australia via Ithaca, Seoul and Zurich. Jessica is an architect, designer, creative coder + educator. She is currently pursuing her interests in drawing and robotics for interactive design explorations. Formerly architectural designer at Heatherwick Studio, Jessica responsible for the production of Google Campus in Mountain View and the Hudson Yards Vessel sculpture projects in New York. She has taught at the Bartlett on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Paul Bavister
Award winning architect, Paul’s practice specialises in public sector design, in particular acoustic and performance spaces. Paul is an active member of sound art group Audialsense, and has lectured internationally on the relationships between sound and architecture. Paul is a Senior Associate Director at Flanagan Lawrence, a Director of Soundforms, and both a design tutor and PHD candidate, at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Dr Kevin Walker
Researcher, designer, writer and artist working at the boundaries of the digital and physical —specifically in curation and computation in physical spaces, grounded in cognitive and cultural theory. Author of Hackers & Slackers (2012), co-editor of Interior Futures (2019) and Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience (2008), his background is in journalism, art and design, interactive media and anthropology.

Alexander Whitley
Choreographer and dancer, Alexander Whitley has created work for several of the UK’s leading companies including the Royal Ballet, Rambert, Balletboyz and Birmingham Royal Ballet. He is a New Wave Associate artist at Sadler’s Wells theatre, and an associate artist at DanceEast. He collaborates across art forms, working with filmmakers, designers, digital artists and composers to create innovative and wide-ranging work that seeks to broaden the scope of dance. His own Dance Company, has enjoyed sell out performances at the Royal Opera House and Sadler’s Wells as well as being nominated for a Critics’ Circle Award.  Through its innovative stage productions The Measures Taken, Pattern Recognition and 8 Minutes, the company has rapidly established a reputation for its ambitious and intellectually engaged work and has developed a wide network of world-class collaborators.

Felix Faire
Multidisciplinary designer and musician practicing in London. His Audio-visual work explores embodied and synaesthetic experiences of music, space and image through the media of light, sound and code. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, Somerset House and installed, performed or presented at various events around the world including Sonar+D, Moogfest, the V&A and TEDx.

Parker Heyl
Mechanical engineer, educator, and roboticist. Parker studied in Boston where he became involved in the maker movement, conducting research on maker curriculums at the Developmental Technologies Lab at Tufts University, Scratch Jr. at the MIT Media Lab, the Cambridge Friends School Makerspace, and The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop. He has worked as a roboticist at the Harvard iLab developing soft robotic grippers, and as a hardware designer at the start-up incubator Greentown Labs. Parker is a graduate of the IALab and has publicly exhibited his thesis project in London, Chicago, and Prague.

Matt DesLauriers
Creative coder, Matt weaves together art, programming and technology to build playful creative projects for public installations, print media, and the web. His interactive installations have been displayed in special events at the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Matt is an active contributor to the open source creative coding community.

Yi-Wen Lin
A freelance creative coder from Taiwan who has worked in Paris and London for the past ten years on a range of commercial and artistic projects. His work is inspired and explores combinations of eastern with western cultural influences. His work has been featured by Experiments with Google, and Samsung at Milan Design Week.

Luca Delatorre | Charcoalblue
Luca is an acoustic and soundscape designer merging his musical performance background with his training in architecture and engineering. He is a Senior Consultant at Charcoalblue the world’s leading theatre, acoustics and digital design consultancy. His interests cross between the interaction of architecture, sound and hearing. His research has examined musician’s acoustic perception on stage and the preferred conditions to allow them to perform at their best. His research was directly applied to the design of Hoddinot Hall, in Cardiff, a 400 seats hall for the BBC Wales symphonic orchestra dedicated to recording and broadcasting; Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a 680-seat concert hall tunable for different types of performances.

George Adamopoulos | Jason Bruges Studio
George is a Computational Designer, Creative Coder and Architect specialising in Computational Geometry and Computer Graphics. Beside his work teaching in the Lab he designs and programs large-scale interactive art installations at Jason Bruges Studio. Both through practice and academia, he is exploring the connections between the fields of Virtual/Mixed Reality and Architecture, and the use of real-time graphics & computational geometry as building tools for cross-disciplinary narratives.

Dominik Zisch | Jason Bruges Studio
A creative technologist, Dominik has a background in architectural technology, theoretical physics, and software engineering. Dominik works at Jason Bruges Studio and also teaches on the MArch at Innsbruck University. He has collaborated with UCL experimental psychology as chief app developer for a series of navigation experiments in the real world. Dominik has a passion for user interaction design with an emphasis on programming and dedicates the little time he has outside of work to researching new ways to interact and work with technology and data.

David Diduca | BAT Studio
Architect and interaction designer, David is a founding director of BAT Studio. He previously worked for Jason Bruges Studio where he was involved in a number of major artworks including the Coca-Cola pavilion at the London Olympics. He was also a member of the Workers collective who recently built robots which roamed the galleries of Tate Britain, After Dark.

Prof Stephen Gage
The Bartlett’s Professor of Innovative Technology, Stephen Gage is an internationally recognised leader in education of interactive and performance architecture. He has taught at The Bartlett since 1993, holding posts as Director of Technology & Director of Architectural Design as well as leading various funded research projects, and supervising Masters & PhD students. His graduates are now some of the industry leaders in interactive and performance architecture including Jason Bruges, Dominic Harris & Usman Haque to name just a few.

Prof Sarah Rubidge
Formerly Professor of Choreography and New Media at the University of Chichester, now Professor Emerita, Sarah has re-embarked on a freelance career as scholar, artist and academic & artistic consultant. She has is a PhD supervisor and Examiner, both in the UK and overseas, and continues to lecture, write, make creative works and act as consultant for national and international bodies and institutions.

Prof Owen Holland
For the last ten years, Owen has mainly been interested in the prospects for building a conscious machine. He is a professor of cognitive robotics in the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and taught at various universities around the UK.

Dr Sandra Campione
Photographer and documentary filmmaker with a PhD in aerospace engineering. Sandra collaborates with artists, designers, and architects documenting their work with a focus on revealing the process behind their practice. She has worked with artists like: Marshmallow Laser Feast, Universal Everything, Studio Roso, and Flat-E.