Born in Istanbul, Dr Ekim Tan graduated as an architect from the Middle East Technical University in 1999, winning the Archiprix Award. She received her second degree in urbanism from the Technical University Delft in 2005. Ekim has long been fascinated by both Istanbul and the Netherlands, watching as the political and spatial landscape in both areas […]
Team Group: RC2023 Speakers
Moon Ribas
A Catalan cyborg artist best known for developing the Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor that allows her to perceive earthquakes taking place anywhere in the planet through vibrations in real time. For the last 16 years, Moon has been experimenting with the union between technology and her body to explore the boundaries of perception […]
Liam Young
Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. Described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures’, his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. As a worldbuilder […]
Laura Narvaez Zertuche
Dr. Laura Narvaez Zertuche is an architect, urban designer, and a spatial scientist. She is a Partner in the Urban Design team at Foster + Partners, where she leads people movement and data analytics service streams within the firm. She has 17 years of experience working in urban design and master planning internationally, primarily in […]
Guillem Camprodon
Guillem Camprodon sits at the nexus of emergent technologies and bottom-up communities, serving as the Executive Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). The lab is a leading hub in a global constellation of over 2,000 Fab Labs and is the epicentre of the Distributed Design Platform. An […]
Jenny E. Sabin
Jenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of responsive material structures and ecological spatial interventions for diverse audiences. […]
Aldo Sollazzo
Aldo Sollazzo is an Italian entrepreneur and innovator, expert in robotics, computer vision, and computational design. He is the CEO of Noumena since 2011, a data-driven company implementing computer vision and machine learning to study and analyze spatial dynamics. As part of the Noumena Group, he is also the CEO of PURE.TECH, a material-driven company […]
Mathilde Marengo
Mathilde Marengo is an Australian – French – Italian PhD Architect whose research focuses on the Contemporary Urban Phenomenon, its integration with technology, and its implications on the future of our planet. Within today’s critical environmental, social and economic framework, she investigates the responsibility of designers in answering these challenges through circular and metabolic design. […]