Measuring the Unmeasurable

Summary
Data is ubiquitous part of our daily lives; the actions we do generate data both in ways we are aware such as paying for something with a credit card, but also in ways that we are unaware such as being recorded on CCTV walking down the street. Whilst data captures the material and actual of human actions it often falls short trying to adequately represent the social and emotional factors in human interaction with others and space.

This project aims to offer an opportunity for students to experience Japanese culture, history and design. With this acting as a catalyst for research, to attempt in a personally derived, but as rigorous fashion as possible, record and generate novel spatial data beyond traditional maps and plans, and enable insight into the social activities which make a place special.

To do this we will be extending the cartographic investigations of Denis Wood: by developing novel mapping and new data sets both as aesthetic products but also narrative tools to explain and understand the activity of a space; to help others value these intangible qualities, and find new data-driven directions to improve urban and architectural configurations.

Date: Friday 12, Saturday 13, Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 January, 2018
Venue: E2-401, E1-501, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyomachiya Campus Ninigi

Workshop Leader
Assistant Professor Sam Conrad Joyce [SUTD]
Sam Conrad Joyce is an Assistant Professor in Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Prior to this he was an Associate at Foster + Partners, in the Applied Research and Development group leading structural integration. Before this he held a role as Design Systems Analyst at Buro Happold working on geometrical, structural and master-planning projects.
He has taught internationally including Technical Studies in the Architectural Association, London, and Design Programming at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
His doctoral studies focus on computation for integrated architectural and engineering design, focussing on professional practice. Aiming to develop data rich systems for effective design space exploration and executive decision making. To enable this his work synthesizes and applies new techniques in distributed and scalable computing, multi-objective optimization, big data analytics, artificial intelligence and web based visualisation.

Maximum participants
20

Participants Qualifications
The opportunity is open to public participants
Principle, participants need to be in all of the workshop schedule

Application deadline
18:00, Monday 8 January, 2018

Application form
Please fill in the bellow form and send it.
https://www.kit.ac.jp/form/view/index.php?id=29170