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## Team

- [Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/philip-beesley/) - Philip Beesley is a practicing visual artist, architect, and Professor in Architecture at the University of Waterloo and Professor of Digital Design and Architecture & Urbanism at the European Graduate School. Beesley’s work is widely cited in contemporary art and architecture, focused in the rapidly expanding technology and culture of responsive and interactive systems. He
- [Aadjan van der Helm](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/aadjan-van-der-helm/) - Aadjan van der Helm is a lecturer of Interaction Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. Aadjan and the LASG recently collaborated on a pilot curriculum that explored the potential for open-source shape grammars for physical scaffolds to serve as armature for public scaled expressive, responsive works. Aadjan joined the IDStudiolab
- [Lisa Jiang](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/lisa-jiang/) - Lisa Jiang is an Experimental Design Manager at the LASG, having previously worked as Creative Projects Assistant at Iris van Herpen Studio. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design Womenswear from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. In addition to a design role in sculptures such as Meander and Threshold, Lisa
- [David Dyson Tam](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/david-dyson-tam/) - David Dyson Tam is the Production Manager and Engineer at Living Architecture Studio Group (LASG). With a background in Manufacturing Engineering from McMaster University and studies in Mechanical Engineering Technology at George Brown College, David excels in the area of design for manufacturability. At the LASG Studio, David manages digital fabrication machines, troubleshoots production issues,
- [Timothy Boll](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/timothy-boll/) - As Design Director at the LASG, Timothy Boll has led teams in the design of Meander at Tapestry Hall, Cambridge, Amatria at Indiana University, and Nebula Prototype: Liminal Space for the travelling exhibition The Beauty Project. He has led workshops at the Delft University of Technology and the University of Manitoba, and his design work
- [Teodor Mlynczyk](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/teodor-mlynczyk/) - Teodor Mlynczyk is a recent Bachelor of Architectural Studies graduate from the University of Waterloo. His academic journey has followed a curiosity and passion for exploring interdisciplinary fields that intersect with architecture. Throughout his undergraduate studies at Waterloo to the present day, Teodor's intellectual interests have extended beyond traditional architectural boundaries, encompassing an extensive range
- [Bianca Weeko Martin](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/bianca-weeko-martin/) - Bianca Weeko Martin manages publications for Riverside Architectural Press and leads web development, graphic and video editing special projects in addition to designing components for complex installations such as Meander at Tapestry Hall, Cambridge and Threshold at San Jose Airport. She was also involved in the CAST-LASG Workshop at the University of Manitoba and Grove
- [Adrian Chîu](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/adrian-chiu/) - Adrian Chîu leads the participatory kits and publication projects for the Living Architecture Systems Group. He utilizes digital design and fabrication to create interactive experiential environments, and directs the development of an approachable STEAM kit-of-parts for interactive architecture, distilled from LASG concepts and methods. Adrian holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo
- [Kevan Cress](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/kevan-cress/) - Kevan Cress directs the design and development of projects within the Living Architecture Systems Group. He has led projects including Constellation (Beijing, CN 2025), Aria (Delft, NL 2025), as well as the Living Shadows installations featured in Iris Van Herpen’s Sculpting the Senses tour. A graduate of the McEwen and Waterloo Schools of Architecture, Cress’
- [Stephen Ru](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/stephen-ru/) - Stephen Ru is a Design Lead at the LASG, overseeing the staffing of large-scale sculptures and website projects. Stephen has led team members in the design of Meander in Cambridge, Threshold in San Jose, and a series of custom fabricated, parametrically-designed sculptures for a large luxury fashion brand. Stephen is interested in automation and creating
- [Matt Gorbet](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/matt-gorbet/) - Matt Gorbet twists technology to create the unexpected. He co-founded Gorbet Design, Inc. to create unconventional objects and experiences in public spaces. These artwork and installation projects have been exhibited internationally and installed permanently in retail, hospitality and educational environments. Matt's work with PB/LASG focuses on interaction and behaviour design, as well as technology integration
- [Ryan Leung](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/ryan-leung/) - Ryan is an interdisciplinary designer born and raised in Hong Kong. He holds a Master's degree in Computational and Advanced Design from DesignMorphine, and a Bachelor's degree in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Ryan has proficiency in both digital and traditional modeling and fabrication techniques. His passion lies in the realms of
- [Mark Francis](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/mark-francis/) - Mark Francis was responsible for the on-site direction of installations for the LASG/PBSI studio. Along with numerous smaller projects, he carried this responsibility for Amatria at Indiana University, Transforming Space at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Noosphere at the Futurium in Berlin, Germany, Radiant Soil in Daejeon, South Korea, and Meander at Tapestry Hall, Cambridge,
- [Jordan Elliott Prosser](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/jordan-elliott-prosser/) - Jordan Elliott Prosser is an artist, designer, and researcher. With LASG he led design, production, and engineering teams for several major projects including: Sentient Chamber at the National Academy of Sciences, Epiphyte Membrane at the Opernwerkstätten, Grove at The Venice Biennale, and Sentient Veil at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum among many others. His research interests
- [Simon Gorbet](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/simon-gorbet/) - Simon Gorbet works as an engineer/industrial design co-op student primarily on the design of actuated devices in PBSI sculptures. Simon developed the Blade of Grass vibration actuator from conception through prototyping to its very first production run, completing the industrial, mechanical, and electrical design for the actuator. Additionally, Simon worked on the August 2022 Shadows
- [Rekha Ramachandran](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/rekha-ramachandran/) - Rekha Ramachandran manages development, research and administration at the LASG. She oversees grant applications, project leads and proposals, LASG partner relations, and administrative affairs. Rekha holds a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from the joint program at York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her
- [Nicolas Désilles](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/nicolas-desilles/) - Nicolas Désilles works at the studio as a MITACS Globalink Intern, conducting multidisciplinary design and digital fabriction tasks and research for ongoing studio projects. His work exists at the intersection of multiple fields such as architecture, industrial design, material science, mechanical engineering, laser cutting processes, FDM and SLA 3D printing processes, and electronics design. Nicolas
- [Michael Lancaster](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/michael-lancaster/) - Michael Lancaster leads the design, production, and installation of electronic and software systems in PBSI's actuated sculptures. Michael is also responsible for directing research and development of hardware and software systems. Current development projects include compact embedded electronics for use within kits, and a modular software system supporting behaviour composition and simulation. He has worked
- [Isabella Ieraci](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/isabella-ieraci/) - Isabella is currently working towards her bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. She often designs through making, gravitating towards physical materiality, light, and volume studies in her own projects. At the studio, Isabella's role focuses on conceptual design and production, encompassing a variety of tasks ranging from small-scale component design and
- [Alison Thompson](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/alison-thompson/) - Alison Thompson oversees the general operations at the LASG. She handles financial matters, partner and studentship relations, and administrative affairs. Prior to joining the LASG team, Alison worked as a legal assistant at a boutique law firm in Guelph. Alison holds a BA (Hons) with a Major in English and Minor in Creative Writing from
- [Edo Van Breemen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/edo-van-breemen/) - Edo Van Breemen is a spatial sound composer and experience designer. He is a co-founder of Lobe Studio (lobestudio.ca) in Vancouver BC, the first 4DSOUND venue to be integrated with a multi-channel haptic floor. Edo’s involvement with the LASG involves composing for test-beds such as Meander, and research around the deployment of new hardware and
- [Mac van Dam](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/mackenzie-van-dam/) - Mac has worked as a designer and installation manager for the Living Architecture Systems Group, on projects including Meander in Cambridge, Threshold in San Jose, and Grove, shown at the 2021 Venice Biennale. Mac Van Dam is a multi-disciplinary designer working in architecture, art, object design, and material science. He has studied architecture and design at the University of
- [Luis Matias](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/luis-matias/) - Luis Matias is an experimental artist, teacher, researcher and designer in polymorphic media from technology, science and arts. He has bachelor studies in architecture and urbanism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Luis currently works on multidisciplinary projects that relate research, design, materialization and education processes focused on living architecture, film production, metaverse, NFTs
- [Navid Navab](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/navid-navab/) - Navid Navab (CA/IR) is a media alchemist, interdisciplinary composer, and tabletop cosmologist. Interested in the poetics of schizophonia, gesture, and embodiment, his work investigates the transmutation of matter and the enrichment of its performative qualities. Navid uses gestures, rhythms and events from everyday life as a basis for real time compositions, resulting in augmented acoustical­
- [Sarah Bonnemaison](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/sarah-bonnemaison/) - Sarah Bonnemaison is a professor at the School of Architecture, Dalhousie University. Prof. Bonnemaison's passion lies in bringing history and theory to life through interactive exhibitions and installations. Her current research project explores the aesthetic and politics of motion studies in the design of everyday spaces. To explore the full potential of her research on the
- [Jenny Sabin](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/jenny-sabin/) - Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer whose work investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and director of graduate studies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University
- [Alice Jarry](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/alice-jarry/) - Alice Jarry is a professor in the department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. She is the director of Milieux Institute's Speculative Life Biolab, co-director of the Topological media Lab, and a member of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Next Generation Cities. As an artist-researcher and educator, Jarry specializes in site-specific responsive
- [Maria Cantalini-Williams](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/maria-cantalini-williams/) - Maria Cantalini-Williams is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at Wilfred Laurier University. She holds a Doctor of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the Department of Applied Psychology. She has conducted large scale research projects in the areas of: innovation in education, collaborative
- [Nathan Shakura](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/nathan-shakura/) - Nathan Shakura designs systems components and manages production at the LASG studio. Nathan is currently completing a bachelor's degree in Environmental Design at OCAD University. As a designer, he is interested in small scale woodworking and wood construction, and design as a tool for social change.
- [Muhammad Tahir Pervaiz](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/muhammad-tahir-pervaiz/) - Muhammad Tahir Pervaiz served an extended studentship with the LASG during which he produced a thesis that focused on the underlying geometric form-language currently used within studio scaffolds. His thesis Mediation: Resonating Between the Organic and Inorganic at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture includes historical references that expand the context of LASG research-creation.
- [Ananda Gabo](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/ananda-gabo/) - Ananda Gabo is an industrial designer currently based in Toronto, and has been making work around the themes of bio-fabrication since 2011. They are a co-founder of Culture² (pronounced “Culture Culture”), a journal for creative biology, ancestral knowledge, and community science. In 2021, they also won 2nd place in the Google x Biodesign challenge. Their
- [Dima Ghazal](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/dima-ghazal/) - Dima Ghazal is a Production Assistant at the LASG where she is engaged in the fabrication and assembly of sculptural installation components. She has contributed to the production of Meander at Tapestry Hall, Cambridge, Threshold at San Jose Airport, and Ocean at Nuit Blanche Toronto. Dima holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design and
- [Jane Bennett](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/jane-bennett/) - Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (Odradek and the end of the world), Evental Aesthetics (Vital Materialism), MLN (mimesis), LA+:Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, and Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung (walking). She is the author of Influx & Efflux: Writing
- [Filipe Costa](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/filipe-costa/) - Filipe Costa leads and orients the production and assembly of sculptural components for installations at the LASG Studio. He has made contributions to Meander at Tapestry Hall, Cambridge and Threshold at San Jose Airport as well as being a core designer and fabricator for the Geometry Kit: Archimedean Polyhedra folio. Filipe is currently pursuing a
- [Nikola Miloradovic](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/nikola-miloradovic/) - Nikola Miloradovic has worked on a variety of permanent and temporary test-beds around the world including Meander, Chun Long Tiao ‘Spring Dragon Tail’, Sentient Chamber, Transforming Space: Aegis and Noosphere, Anthozoan Veil, Aletheia, Futurium Noosphere, Threshold, and Nebula Prototype: Liminal Architecture. Nikola is involved in many steps of the design process including modeling, prototyping, fabrication,
- [Neil Forrest](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/neil-forrest/) - Neil's current works examine place, the imagery of architecture and historical events around personal and national identities with an emphasis on corporeality and materiality. Earlier works explored Neil's interest in the structural presence of architecture, in which he has synthesized elements of the physical landscape whose fragments colonize architectural spaces. As a member of the
- [Ellie Hayden](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/ellie-hayden/) - Ellie Hayden is the Operations Director at the LASG, steering and overseeing grant applications, project leads, LASG partner and studentship relations, and administrative affairs. Before joining the LASG team, Ellie worked for three of Toronto's Business Improvement Areas where she liaised with local business owners and city officials to orchestrate a series of community-based public
- [Nathanael Scheffler](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/nathanael-scheffler/) - In his past work with the LASG, Nathanael worked mainly on the industrial design of sculpture components as well as their manufacturing. A main area of focus was updating LED light housings and developing robust heat sinking to extend their lifespans. He also worked on redesigning existing stainless steel cutting patterns of sculptural components for
- [Rachel Armstrong](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/rachel-armstrong/) - Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow who is establishing an alternative approach to sustainability that couples with the computational properties of the natural world to develop a 21st century production platform for the built environment, which she calls 'living' architecture. Rachel has been
- [Guilherme Kujawski](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/guilherme-kujawski/) - Guilherme Kujawski is a design academic, freelance writer and curator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a MA in Media Art History (Donau-Universität Krems, Austria) and a Ph.D in Architecture (São Paulo University, Brazil). He represents a radical multi-disciplinary expert working at the intersection of art and design, technology and culture, literature and society.
- [James Forren](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/james-forren/) - James Forren is an Associate Professor of Architecture in Design and Technology. He directs the Material, Body, and Environment Laboratory (MBELab) which investigates the production of architectural compo­nents and assemblies, concrete and composite technologies, and people’s experiences with materials in industrial, design, and public contexts. James Forren's research utilizes computational, fine arts, and anthropological methods
- [Douglas MacLeod](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/douglas-macleod/) - Over the last 30 years, Dr. Douglas MacLeod, FRAIC, has been creating visionary projects that have transformed the arts, architecture and education - from pioneering work in virtual reality at the Banff Centre to eduSourceCanada, the country’s largest e-learning initiative to date. A registered architect, he is currently the Chair of the Centre for Architecture
- [Sascha Hastings](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/sashca-hastings/) - Sascha Hastings is responsible for curation and promotion related to the group and its work. Sascha maintains a long association with the LASG that includes work for the 2021 Venice Biennale, 2010 Venice Biennale, and a number of testbeds and exhibitions since 2018. She has worked previously as a national arts producer for CBC Radio,
- [Rob Gorbet](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/rob-gorbet/) - Rob Gorbet leads the Interdisciplinary Methods stream within the LASG. He contributes to the creation of Living Architecture Systems environments and leads the LASG's STEAM education program. With LASG partners, the Toolbox Dialog Initiative, he is involved in the development of a Handbook of Living Architecture and the curriculum for Living Architecture 101. Rob is
- [Salvador Breed](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/salvador-breed/) - Salvador Breed (1984) is a professional audiofreak, composing and sculpting spatial sound for a wide variety of contexts such as live performances, fashion shows, video-art, commercials and installations. In 2007, Salvador co-founded 4DSOUND Technologies and has since been serving as its Creative Developer, focusing on blending boundaries between music and sound design and advancing the
- [Karen Zwart Hielema](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/karen-zwart-hielema/) - Karen works on select PBSI/LASG interactive environments and exhibits. She is the lead client liaison, works with the studio team on overall creative direction and design progress, project management, and coordination of artwork and building systems. She leads creative extensions of the artwork including content development and design of interpretive exhibitry, educational programming and curriculum
- [Paul Oomen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/paul-oomen/) - Born in 1983 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Paul Oomen is a sound researcher, composer, curator, inventor and writer. From an early age Paul gathered experience in theatre as an actor and director, and as a musician trained in percussion, piano and singing. He holds an MA with Honours in Music Composition from the Conservatory of
- [Poul Holleman](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/poul-holleman/) - Poul Holleman (1984) is a spatial sound expert and software artist, who conducts extensive research, discovers new developments within the field while teaching software design in the domain of interactive media at the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), and advances the possibilities of the medium in interdisciplinary contexts. Poul serves as Director and Lead
- [Michael Stacey](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/michael-stacey/) - Professor Michael Stacey is an award-winning architect, who combines practice, teaching, research and writing, based in London at the Bartlett / UCL and Michael Stacey Architects. Michael Stacey is the author of a wide range of publications and books including Component Design, 2001, Digital Fabrication, 2004, Concrete: a studio design guide, 2011, Prototyping Architecture, 2013, Aluminium
- [Richard Mui](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/richard-mui/) - Richard Mui is a structural designer at Blackwell Structural Engineers who is interested in how structural analysis can be used to inform decision making in architectural design. His Master’s thesis, PTAF: Polygon Tessellation to Approximate Frame, was undertaken in close collaboration with the Living Architecture Systems Group. In the thesis, information from the Amatria test
- [J. Eric Mathis](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/j-eric-mathis/) - Making a name for himself by spearheading what is considered by many the most advanced coal transition strategy in the United States along with being a part of the core team that successfully launched the hemp industry across the United States through the 2014 Farm Bill, J. Eric Mathis has been at the forefront of
- [Henriette Bier](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/henriette-bier/) - After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught digitally-driven architectural design (2002-2003) at universities in Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and since 2004 she mainly teaches and researches at Technical University Delft
- [Tomasz Jaskiewicz](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/tomasz-jaskiewicz/) - Tomasz Jaskiewicz is an Assistant Professor of Explorative Prototyping and Interactive Environments at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. In his work he develops and evaluates tools, methods and strategies supporting iterative design processes, and applies them to empower people in the context of smart buildings and smart cities. He actively
- [Zi Yong “Zed” Ng](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/zi-yong-zed-ng/) - Zi Yong Ng, or Zed, is a Singapore-born New Zealand-based multimedia designer that is currently in his final year of study in the Bachelor of Design Innovation‎ at Victoria University of Wellington. Zed’s area of interest focuses on the integration of art, design, science and technology in outputs such as multimedia installations and digitally created
- [Farhan Monower](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/farhan-monower/) - Farhan Monower is an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo, studying Mechatronics Engineering. He is set to graduate in the summer of 2021, and has completed multiple internships at companies such as Ford, DA-Integrated and Ritual Technologies Inc. He joined Philip Beesley/Living Architecture System Group as a Mechatronics Engineering intern, where he worked on
- [Antonio Camurri](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/antonio-camurri/) - Antonio Camurri coordinates the EnTimeMent EU project with the LASG. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and is a professor at the University of Genoa, teaching Human Computer Interaction courses for the MS in Computer Engineering and MS in Digital Humanities. As art influences science and technology, science and technology can in turn inspire
- [Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/mette-ramsgaard-thomsen/) - Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen's research centers on the intersection between architecture and computer science. Her focus is on the profound changes that digital technologies instigate in the way architecture is thought, designed and built. In 2004 Ramsgaard Thomsen completed an interdisciplinary PhD in architecture and computer science. In 2005 Ramsgaard Thomsen founded the Centre for IT
- [Katy Börner](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/katy-borner/) - Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science in the Departments of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Information Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering; core faculty of the Cognitive Science Program; and founding director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center—all at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She
- [Manuel Lukas](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/manuel-lukas/) - Manuel Lukas joined the University of Innsbruck and the Anhalt University/Materiability Research Group in October 2020 as a doctoral student and is supervised by Prof. Claudia Pasquero and Prof. Dr. M. Kretzer. After an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman and a bachelor's degree in jazz and pop music, he commenced his studies in communication design
- [Paul Pangaro](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/paul-pangaro/) - Paul Pangaro has been studying conversation and design, both human-human and human-machine, for over thirty years. His design practice, lectures, and writing have centered on designing for conversation and seeing design as conversation. His career spans roles as interaction designer, entrepreneur, researcher, performer, and professor. Currently Pangaro is creating #NewMacyMeetings, a renewal of the original
- [Dana Kulić](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/dana-kulic/) - Prof. Dana Kulić conducts research in robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI), and develops autonomous systems that can operate in concert with humans, using natural and intuitive interaction strategies while learning from user feedback to improve and individualize operation over long-term use. Dana Kulić received the combined B. A. Sc. and M. Eng. degree in electro-mechanical
- [Svenja Keune](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/svenja-keune/) - After exploring electronics to create adaptive and responsive textile surfaces and communicative objects, Svenja Keune turned toward seeds as a potential biological alternative, and as a dynamic material for textile design. During her PhD project “On Textile Farming” within the MSCA ArcInTexETN, and in order to explore alternative ways of living that the textile plant
- [Michael O'Rourke](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/michael-orourke/) - Michael O’Rourke is Professor of Philosophy and faculty in AgBioResearch and Environmental Science & Policy at Michigan State University. He is Director of the MSU Center for Interdisciplinarity and Director of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative, an NSF-sponsored research initiative that investigates philosophical approaches to facilitating interdisciplinary research and implements them across a broad range of
- [Manuel Kretzer](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/manuel-kretzer/) - Dr. sc. Manuel Kretzer is professor for Material and Technology at the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. His research aims at the creation of dynamic and adaptive objects, spaces and experiences. A specific focus is on new smart and biological material performance and their combination with advanced digital design and fabrication
- [Andreas Bueckle](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/andreas-bueckle/) - Andreas Bueckle is a PhD Candidate in Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include interactive information visualization and data visualization literacy in virtual reality (VR). Born and raised in Germany, he holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Eberhard Karls University in Tuebingen
- [Lingheng Meng](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/lingheng-meng/) - Lingheng Meng is a PhD student, co-supervised by Prof. Dana Kulić and Prof. Rob Gorbet, in the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Waterloo. He is passionate about applying Artificial Intelligence technology to Human-Robot Interaction. Specifically, Lingheng applied Deep Reinforcement Learning to the Aegis and Noosphere testbed at the Royal Ontario Museum
- [Colin Ellard](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/colin-ellard/) - Colin Ellard is a cognitive neuroscientist, author and design consultant, who works at the intersection of psychology and architectural and urban design. As a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, his research interests include how the organization and appearance of natural and built spaces affects movement, wayfinding, emotion and physiology. Ellard employs a mix of methodologies in his

## Partner

- [Riverside Architectural Press](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/riverside-architectural-press/) - Riverside Architectural Press is an independent publishing house associated with the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario. The Press has produced numerous publications over the last eight years, including ten volumes for the Canadian Design Research Network/Design Research Canada, Responsive Architectures: Subtle Technologies, and the DX edition, Ourtopias: Cities and the role
- [4DSOUND Technologies](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/institute-of-spatial-sound-4dsound/) - 4DSOUND is an Amsterdam-based development studio exploring spatial sound as a medium. Since 2007, the studio has participated in more than 150 international projects and developed integrated hardware and software systems that provide a fully omnidirectional sound environment. These environments enable vivid sonic experiences that blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined: the
- [Spatial Sound Institute (SSI)](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/spatial-sound-institute-ssi/) - In 2015, 4DSOUND founded the Spatial Sound Institute (SSI) in Budapest, a permanent non-profit facility dedicated to spatial sound as an emerging field of study with increasing influence on a range of scientific, socio-cultural and artistic areas. Over the years, spatial sound is steadily gaining recognition as a new medium that opens up ways of
- [Hyperbody, TU Delft](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/hyperbody-ut-delft/) - Directed by Prof. ir. Kas Oosterhuis and managed by Dr.-Ing. Henriette Bier and Dr. Nimish Biloria, Hyperbody focuses on employing and advancing techniques and methods for designing, building, and operating Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture. Interactivity is embedded not only in the process of informed collaborative design, but also in the production and the operation of
- [York University, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/school-of-the-arts-media-performance-design-york-university/) - The Eversive Ecologies Cluster is a York-based research cluster dedicated to developing new technologies and artworks of unprecedented responsive complexity and somatic awareness that create a seamless continuum between virtual reality and the world we inhabit. The environments that surround us have a profound influence on shaping human potentials for access and interaction with the
- [University of Waterloo, Fine Art](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/fine-art-university-of-waterloo/)
- [University of Trento, Centre for Integrative Biology](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/centre-for-integrative-biology-university-of-trento/) - Martin Hanczyc is developing novel synthetic chemical systems based on the properties of living systems, in a quest to understand how life forms. These synthetic systems, or "protocells," are model systems of primitive living cells and chemical examples of artificial life. As Rachel Armstrong puts it: "Although the protocell model system is just a chemically
- [University of the West of England, Unconventional Computing Centre](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/unconventional-computing-centre-university-of-the-west-of-england/) - We employ complex dynamics in physical, chemical and biological media to design novel computational techniques, architectures and working prototypes of non-linear media based computers. The research is based on an interdisciplinary cooperation in modeling and experimental verification of novel principles of information processing and analysis in uniform distributed large-scale chemical and physical systems. We also
- [University of Texas at Dallas, Center for BrainHealth](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/center-for-brain-health-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) - The Center for BrainHealth® at The University of Texas at Dallas is a scientific research institute committed to understanding, protecting, healing, and enhancing the brain. With more than 60 fully funded research projects, scientific exploration at the Center for BrainHealth® is leading edge, innovative, improving lives today and translating groundbreaking discoveries into practical clinical application.
- [University of Surrey, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/faculty-of-health-and-medical-sciences-university-of-surrey/) - Dr. Simon Park is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey and teaches Bacteriology and Molecular Biology. His activities, and practice beyond scientific research, are driven by the misconception that microbiological life is primitive and always detrimental and his conviction is that collaborations with artists can
- [University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/ecs-university-of-southampton/) - The ECS Group undertakes research covering Electronics and Computer Science that enables advances in engineering of electronic and software systems. Our research involves the exploration and development of theoretical foundations, modelling and programming languages, engineering methods, design tools and system engineering applications covering both software and hardware.
- [University of North Florida, Department of Foundations and Secondary Education](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/foundations-secondary-education-department-university-of-north-florida/) - The mission of the Department of Foundations and Secondary Education is to: 1) create in students a deep understanding of foundational disciplines, general pedagogy, and discipline specific pedagogy; 2) provide guidance to pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and school leaders in the application of educational research; 3) ensure that schools – ranging from urban to suburban
- [University of Genoa, Department of Engineering](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/engineering-university-of-genova/) - Established in May 2012, DIBRIS is an university structure where research and education are based on the areas of Computer Science and Technology, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering. The mission of DIBRIS is to promote and facilitate the creation (research), transmission (education), and technology transfer of the knowledge in these areas at the national and
- [University of Calgary, Laboratory for Integrative Design](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/laboratory-for-integrative-design-university-of-calgary/) - The Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID) is an interdisciplinary research group that brings together researchers from multiple disciplines. The researchers at LID operate in areas of overlap that exist between design, its allied disciplines of engineering and production, and other fields, such as computer science, material science, mathematics and biology. The operative domain of LID
- [University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/electrical-and-computer-engineering-ubc/) - Sid Fels has been in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UBC since 1998. Dr. Fels received his PhD and MSc in computer science at the University of Toronto in 1994 and 1990 respectively and his BASc in electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1988. He was recognized as a Distinguished
- [University of Akron, Department of Biology](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/the-university-of-akron-department-of-biology/) - Dr. Petra Gruber, Associate Professor at the University of Akron is an expert in the field of biomimetics in architecture. The Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center BRIC based at UAkron consists of more than 30 faculty members active in inter-and transdisciplinary research in the fields of biology, engineering, polymer science, art etc. The PhD program
- [Universität der Künste Berlin, College of Architecture, Media and Design](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/college-of-architecture-media-design-universitat-der-kunste-berlin/)
- [UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, BIOMSgroup](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/bioms-department-of-architecture-uc-berkeley/) - Gutierrez founded the BIOMSgroup (Bio Input Onto Material Systems) at UC Berkeley in 2008. Her collaboration with Slawomir Hermanowicz (civil and environmental engineering) and Luke Lee (bio-engineering) of UC Berkeley is funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Science in Energy
- [The Mission Business Inc.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/the-mission-business-inc/) - The Mission Business Inc. is an interdisciplinary team of designers from the arts, the academy and the arcade. We create unique experiences that help companies evolve their culture, innovate their meetings, provide engagement at their events, and chart out bold plans for the future. We are based in Toronto, but have worked across the globe
- [The Innovation Collaborative](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/the-innovation-collaborative/) - The Innovation Collaborative is a Washington, CD-based national collaboration of representatives from leading arts, science, humanities and higher education institutions. Membership includes representatives from: national Art Educators Association, National Association of Gifted Children, National Science Teachers Association, Americans for the Arts, Association of Science-Technology Museums, The Exploratorium, Young Adult Library Services Association, Drexel University, Michigan
- [TDM Solutions](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/tdm-solutions/) - TDM Solutions is a company that provides CAD/CAm solutions to a variety of industries, such as the jewelry, architecture, casts and molds, prototype, footwear, product design and general mechanics industries. Developer of design and manufacturing applications well-know internationally as RhinoGold for the jewelry, Clayoo for the product design, RhinoShoe and RhinoNest for the optimization and
- [Subtle Technologies](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/subtle-technologies/) - Subtle Technologies is a Toronto-based platform for community building and knowledge sharing at the intersection of art, science and technology. Our annual festival invites a curious public to engage with ideas at the leading-edge of Canadian creativity while acting as a physical node for collaboration and exchange between diverse communities working across disciplines. Through strategic
- [Sheridan College, Theatre and Drama Studies](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/theatre-and-drama-studies-sheridan-college/)
- [Sheridan College, Screen Industries Research and Training Centre](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/screen-industries-research-sheridan-college/) - SIRT is located in the heart of Toronto's film and television studio district at Pinewood Toronto Studios, Canada’s largest complex of soundstages. SIRT’s production studio and lab facility is an industry and academic “technology clubhouse” dedicated to exploring digital image capture and creation processes for film, television, gaming and other screen-based industries. Using state of
- [Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Centre for Information Technology and Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/cita-royal-danish-academy-of-arts/) - CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA investigates how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice. CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools
- [Plymouth University, Faculty of Arts & Humanities](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/faculty-of-arts-humanities-plymouth-university/)
- [Philip Beesley Studio Inc.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/philip-beesley-architect-inc/) - Philip Beesley Studio Inc. is an interdisciplinary design company located in Toronto, Canada. PBAI specializes in architectural design of public buildings, public art and experimental installations. The group is closely associated with the multi-partner Living Architecture Systems Group, the School of Architecture and Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, the architectural practice of
- [OCAD University](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/ucad-university/) - OCAD U is dedicated to art and design education, practice and research and to knowledge and invention across a wide range of disciplines. OCAD U continuously builds on its traditional, studio-based strengths, adding new approaches to learning that champion cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and the integration of emerging technologies. In the Age of Imagination, members of
- [Nottingham Trent University, Advanced Textiles Research Group](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/atrg-university-of-nottingham/)
- [Newcastle University, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE)](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/architecture-planning-landscape-newcastle-university/) - Experimental Architecture considers the application of living technologies, such as protocells and programmable smart chemistry, in the context of architectural prototypes, as well as current architectural systems. Mapping directly onto LASG’s pursuit of Living Chemistry systems involving artificial biology systems, the partnership will provide theoretical and practical insights towards a 21st century understanding of technology,
- [National Academy of Sciences](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/national-academy-of-sciences/)
- [Michigan State University, Toolbox Dialogue Initiative](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/project-toolbox-university-of-michigan/) - The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative provides a philosophical yet practical enhancement to cross-disciplinary, collaborative science. This enhancement comes primarily in the form of a dialogue-based “Toolbox workshop”, and it is intended for interdisciplinary and interprofessional teams of collaborators. Rooted in philosophical analysis, Toolbox workshops enable cross-disciplinary collaborators to engage in a structured dialogue about their research
- [Leonardo Museum of Creativity and Innovation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/leonardo-museum-for-art-technology/) - The Leonardo opened in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 8, 2011 to fulfill its mission to fuse science, technology and art in experiences that inspire creativity and innovation in people of all ages. In 2010 the Museum commissioned Philip Beesley and his collaborators within the Living Architecture Systems Group to install the Hylozoic Veil
- [Interactive Architecture Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/interactive-architecture-lab-the-bartlett-school-of-architecture/) - The Interactive Architecture Lab is a multidisciplinary research group interested in the behaviour and interaction of things, environments and their inhabitants. Areas of current research include adaptive responsive environments; kinetic design and robotics; multisensory interfaces; wearable computing and prosthetics; the ‘internet of things’; performance and choreography. Situated within the 12-month Masters programme, MArch Architectural Design
- [ICEE Success](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/icee-success/) - ICEE works with Texas, national, and international partners to develop, implement, and research the integration of the arts and innovation thinking with required learning in science, math, and language arts in K-12 schools and out-of-school settings. Nationally-recognized researchers, educators, businesses, governments, universities, and school systems point out that, in order to be successful in the
- [Formlabs](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/formlabs/) - Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 250 people across offices in Germany, Japan, and China. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world. With the Form 2 SLA 3D printer, Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer, Form Cell manufacturing solution, and Pinshape
- [Filum Ltd.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/filum-ltd/) - Filum Ltd. is an award-winning design firm specializing in responsive, transportable environments. A key focus of our work includes design based on natural structures to build in resiliency for unforeseen change with the environment and interaction by users.
- [ETH Zurich, CAAD](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/caad-eth-zurich/) - Manuel Kretzer is responsible for coordinating and leading the postgraduate Master of Advanced Studies class’s digital design and production modules. His research aims at the notion of a soft and dynamic architecture with a specific focus on new (smart) material performance. In 2012 he established the materiability research network, a platform that brings together architects,
- [Drexel University, School of Education](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/school-of-education-drexel-university/) - The School of Education traces its roots back to when Drexel University was known as the Drexel Institute, and offered teacher training as part of its curriculum for women. Today, the School of Education's mission goes well beyond teacher training. We offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees and a wide variety of certificate, certification and
- [Cornell University, Sabin Design Lab](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/sabin-design-lab-cornell-university/)
- [Concordia University, Topological Media Lab](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/topological-media-lab-concordia-university/) - The Topological Media Lab approaches media arts and technologies research as a creative endeavour that cuts across disciplines and fields of experience. The TML describes its atelier research as studying processes of “subjectivation, agency and materiality from phenomenological, social and computational perspectives.” It approaches this by suspending assumptions about what we think are ego’s, humans,
- [Clearpath Robotics](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/clearpath-robotics/) - Clearpath Robotics is a world leader in mobile robotics and develops a variety of robot platforms built for research and educational applications. Clearpath Robotics specializes in the design and build of robotic platforms through combined expertise in software, hardware, controls and perception. With a multi-disciplinary approach, we offer a wide range of technical services backed
- [City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/school-of-creative-media-city-university/)
- [Central Saint Martins UAL, Design & Living Systems Lab](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/design-living-systems-lab-central-saint-martins/) - The Design and Living Systems Lab is a pioneering research laboratory that explores the interface of biological sciences and design to challenge established paradigms and envision new sustainable materials and forms of production for the future. The Lab has grown out of 8 years of Prof. Carole Collet‘s research activities at Central Saint Martins, University
- [Blackwell Structural Engineers](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/blackwell-structural-engineers/) - Blackwell has been providing structural engineering services to architects, developers and building owners since 1987. We excel at solving tough problems and achieving architectural vision, producing efficient structures supported by tight contract documents. We offer full consulting engineering services on a broad spectrum of projects, from the new construction of university facilities, offices, retail buildings,
- [Biopac](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/biopac/) - BIOPAC is a leading provider of Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems for life science research. We develop innovative, high-quality, life sciences educational and research hardware and software including customizable educational solutions; cutting edge tools in ambulatory, MRI, lab, real-world, and virtual environments; and world-class support to exchange domain specific knowledge, perfect methodology, and achieve physiological
- [Autodesk, The Living](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/the-living-autodesk/) - The Living, a first-of-its-kind Autodesk Studio, explores the future by building full-scale functioning prototypes today. Our projects apply generative design, biology, and new materials to real built projects in the context of technology, culture, and the environment. Recently, The Living was ranked third by Fast Company in its list of World’s Most Innovative Companies in
- [Athabasca University, RAIC Centre for Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/raic-centre-for-architecture-athabasca-university/) - Consistent with goals of the LASG Partnership, the RAIC Centre for Architecture has created a world class architectural education that takes the best of traditional and online learning and combines them into a model for education in the 21st Century. Like the research proposed by the LASG we are developing conceptual paradigms, curriculum models and
- [Atelier Iris van Herpen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/atelier-iris-van-herpen/) - Iris van Herpen stands for a reciprocity between craftsmanship and innovation in technique and materials. She creates a modern view on Haute Couture that combines fine handwork techniques with digital technology. Van Herpen forces fashion to the extreme contradiction between beauty and regeneration. It is her unique way to reevaluate reality and so to express
- [University of Waterloo](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/partner/university-of-waterloo/) - In the heart of Waterloo Region, at the forefront of innovation, the University of Waterloo is home to world-changing research and inspired teaching. At the hub of a growing network of global partnerships, Waterloo is shaping the future by building bridges with industry and between disciplines, institutions and communities. The Living Architecture Systems Group is

## Research Stream

- [Scaffolds](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/meshwork-design-systems/) - Scaffold is focused on advancing resilient architectural test-beds that integrate lightweight and flexible components. These components contain compartments and membranes that incorporate responsive computational and fluid circulation systems. Scaffolds are developed with tensile strength, stability and durability in materials such as acrylics, memory shape alloy and mylar to improve the performative quality of required structures.
- [Synthetic Cognition](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/human-machine-interaction-design/) - Synthetic Cognition integrates computation and controls to develop interactive systems that visualize and synthesize performance behaviours. The systems integrate multi-modal monitoring and massively distributed sensor arrays employing real-time functions for sensing and learning occupant presence and actions. A curiosity-based learning algorithm (CBLA) responds to continuous feedback and occupant-feedback from test-beds. Permanent integration of empathic technologies
- [Metabolism](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/synthetic-biology-and-biosystems/) - Metabolism is focused on developing functional self-renewing systems capable of sustained long-term growth in changing environments. These systems will be integrated in artificial skins and fuels showing qualities of living, composed from fluid-based inorganic chemistries. Synthetic systems of metabolism could act as a regenerative layer for building surfaces, similar to ivy on building structures, and
- [Human Experience](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/cognitive-and-physiological-research/) - Human Experience explores the emotional and cognitive impact of near-living environments on human occupants. Participant movement, facial expression, and nervous system activity will be used to construct a profile of the relationship between person and the responsive environment. The analysis methods and technical feedbacks gathered from Stream 2 will provide the data required to study
- [Interdisciplinary Methods](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/interdisciplinary-working-methods/) - Interdisciplinary Methods studies and develops new working methods for multidisciplinary collaborations within the partnership. Additionally, this stream is interested in teaching methods for interdisciplinary collaboration to impacts curriculum and the future of creative thinking. Projects include: STEAM-based Curriculum Development; Paradigms, Models and Design Methods for Interdisciplinary Working Methods.
- [Theory](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/research/theory-and-histroy/) - Theory provides historical and theoretical reflections on the notion of Living in the context of the LAS research partnership. The activities of this stream is working towards developing a collective language and theoretical understanding of living systems through the aesthetic philosophy of Organicism. This stream is also dedicated to developing future trajectories and imagining possibilities

## Project

- [Transforming Space: Aegis and Noosphere](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/transforming-space/)
- [Amatria](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/amatria/)
- [Living Shadows](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/living-shadows/)
- [Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/iris-van-herpen-sculpting-the-senses/)
- [Threshold](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/threshold/)
- [Aria: Sentient Constellation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/aria-sentient-constellation/)
- [Robots Among Us: GBA HCI Summer School 2025](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/robots-among-us-gba-hci-summer-school-2025/)
- [Materia Prima Centre](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/materia-prima-centre/)
- [Futurium Noosphere](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/futurium-noosphere/)
- [Dream Worlds: Living Shadows Kit](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/dream-worlds/)
- [Second Land: A Ground Veiling](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/second-land/)
- [Constellation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/constellation/)
- [Sargasso](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/sargasso_project/)
- [Liquid Ghost Mannequins](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/liquid-ghost-mannequins/)
- [Cradle](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/grove-cradle/)
- [Shadows and Whispers: Echoes and Reflections](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/shadows-and-whispers-echoes-and-reflections/)
- [Robotic Speculations Workshop: TU Delft Interactive Environments Minor 2023](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/robotic-speculations-workshop-tu-delft-interactive-environments-minor-2023/)
- [Endless Connections](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/endless-connections/)
- [Sentient Veil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/sentient-veil/)
- [Shadows and Whispers: Emerging Forms at the Edges of Nature](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/shadows-and-whispers-emerging-forms-at-the-edges-of-nature/)
- [Poietic Veil: Living Architecture Prototype Testbed](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/poietic-veil-living-architecture-prototype-testbed/)
- [Interactive Environments Minor TU Delft 2022](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/interactive-environments-tu-delft-2022/)
- [Sensory Seas: Morphogenesis Dress](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/sensory-seas/)
- [Shift Souls & Hypnosis](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/shift-souls/)
- [Lucid: The unreality of seeing](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/lucid-the-unreality-of-seeing/)
- [Hacking Infinity](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/hacking_infinity/)
- [Magnetic Motion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/magnetic_motion/)
- [Meander](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/meander/)
- [Grove](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/grove/)
- [Poietic Veil Tilburg, Is it Alive?](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/poietic-veil-tilburg/)
- [Hello, Robot. Hylozoic Grove](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/hylozoic-grove/)
- [The Work of the Living Architecture Systems Group](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/the-work-of-the-living-architecture-systems-group/)
- [Nebula Prototype: Liminal Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/nebula-prototype-liminal-architecture/)
- [Ar Frout Reef](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/ar-frout-reef/)
- [CAST-LASG Workshop](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/cast-lasg-workshop/)
- [Radiant Soil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/radiant-soil/)
- [Living Architecture Systems](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/living-architecture-systems/)
- [Ocean](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/ocean/)
- [Machine Learning for Interactive Systems](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/machine-learning-for-interactive-systems/)
- [Sentient Chamber](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/sentient-chamber/)
- [Dissipative Architectures](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/dissipative-architectures/) - Matthew Chan
- [Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/living-architecture/)
- [Epiphyte Membrane](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/epiphyte_membrane/)
- [Living Architecture Test-Bed](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/living-architecture-test-bed/)
- [Radiant Soil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/radiant_soil/)
- [Epiphyte Spring](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/epiphyte_spring/)
- [Interactive Environments Minor TU Delft 2020](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/interactive-environments-minor-at-tu-delft/)
- [Excitable Matter And Structure-borne Behaviour And Sense](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/excitable-matter-and-self-formative-structures-of-behaviour-and-sense/)
- [Lumen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/lumen/)
- [LEO Riverview](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/riverview-column/)
- [Gesture and Form](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/gesture-and-form/)
- [Cicada Electroacoustic Actuator](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/cicada-electroacoustic-actuator/)
- [Cyber-physical Furniture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/cyber-physical-furniture/)
- [Anthozoan Veil: Science Centre Workshop](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/anthozoan-veil-workshop/)
- [Anthozoan Veil: De Electriciteitsfabriek](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/anthozoan-veil/)
- [Regenerate Forsyth](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/winston-salem-living-lab/)
- [Superbloom: An Emancipation Story](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/superbloom-an-emancipation-story/)
- [The Colloquy of Mobiles](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/the-colloquy-of-mobiles/)
- [Hylozoic Ground Collaboration: Breathing Pore and Protocell](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/hylozoic_ground_collaboration_breathing_pore_and_protocell/)
- [Wild Designs](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/wild-designs/)
- [Hylozoic Matter](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/hylozoic_matter/)
- [Epiphyte Chamber](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/epiphyte_chamber/)
- [Chun Long Tiao 'Spring Dragon Tail'](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/chunlongtiaospringdragontail/)
- [Astrocyte](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/astrocyte/)
- [Aletheia](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/aletheia/)
- [Aerial Well Study](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/project/aerialwellstudy/)

## Project

- [Epiphyte Membrane](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/epiphyte-membrane/)
- [Hylozoic Ground Collaboration: Breathing Pore and Protocell](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/hylozoic-ground-collaboration-breathing-pore-and-protocell/)
- [Chun Long Tiao 'Spring Dragon Tail'](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/chun-long-tiao-spring-dragon-tail/)
- [Magnetic Motion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/magnetic-motion/)
- [Sargasso](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/sargasso/)
- [Epiphyte Spring](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/epiphyte-spring/)
- [Aerial Well Study](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/aerial-well-study/)
- [Hylozoic Matter](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/hylozoic-matter/)
- [Epiphyte Chamber](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/epiphyte-chamber/) - Epiphyte Chamber is envisioned as an archipelago of interconnected halo-like masses that mimic human sensations through subtle, coordinated movements. Across each floating island, densely interwoven structures and delicate canopies made of thousands of lightweight digitally-fabricated components are drawn together in nearly-synchronized breathing and whispers. Audiences walk into highly sensual, intimate sculptural spaces that support small
- [Hacking Infinity](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/installation/hacking-infinity/)

## Publication

- [Aether](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/aether/) - Living Architecture installations behave in expressive ways that can be controlled using simple software interfaces. Aether: Living Architecture Software Suite can support many different kinds of Living Architecture constructions. Aether can be used for applications including small kits explored by young users, sculptures and environments composed by artists, and test-bed environments studied by scientists. Like
- [Biopolyester](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/biopolyester/) - This folio is focused on redefining the fashion industry’s supply chain, transitioning from a take-make-dispose linear model to a reuse-re-make-revive circular model, effectively taking into consideration product’s end-of-life. By fusing design, material science, and circular principles, the research explores the potential of kombucha bacterial cellulose as a replacement of polyester in support of a circular
- [Global Impact Report](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/global-impact-report/)
- [Living Architecture Exploration Kits](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-architecture-exploration-kits-introductory-assemblies/) - Download Living Architecture Exploration Kits: Component Catalogue Download Living Architecture Exploration Kits: Introductory Assemblies This folio describes a series of exploration kits that have been developed by the Living Architecture Systems Group. These exploration Kits encourage experimentation with interactive architectural constructions. The web-based software and the physical kit components that have been included within this
- [Sentient Chamber](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/sentient-chamber/) - This book documents the Sentient Chamber installation at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington. November 2, 2015 – May 31, 2016 Sentient Chamber is a new interactive installation exploring a revolutionary new kind of building, raising fundamental questions about how architecture might behave in the future. Might future buildings begin to know and care about
- [Second Land: Ground Veiling](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/second-land-ground-veiling/) - This folio documents an installation that was constructed by the members of a Living Architecture Systems Group workshop at Domaine de Boisbuchet, Poitiers, France, in 2019. Specialized organic power cells employing natural potatoes as an electrolyte source were used within the installation. The folio presents a step-by-step guide of assembly for main parts of this
- [Ecosystem of Exploration](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/ecosystem-of-exploration/) - This publication provides detailed documentation of current research and discovery kits developed by the Living Architecture Systems Group. The Living Architecture Systems Group has developed a series of flexible discovery and creation kits that combine interactive electronics, geometric constructions, modular software, and expressive patterns of sound, light, and motion. These kits can help enrich the
- [Kinetic Architectures and Geotextile Installations](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/kinetic-architectures-and-geotextile-installations/) - This book documents architectural installations developed by Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature
- [Printing with Biofoams](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/printing-with-biofoams/) - In an attempt to expand the diversity, inclusivity and flexibility of urban settlements without leaving a permanent mark on the environment, Printing with Biofoams: Transient futures exploration investigates novel regenerative materialities that have the ability to respond and adapt to changing external as well as internal conditions. Smart materials are dynamic, responsive and adaptable in
- [Learning from Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/learning-from-living-architecture/) - This publication will explore how the LASG uses its testbeds to support STEAM learning. It will provide background on the STEAM movement as a response to both economic conditions and insights into learning and cognition that have shifted our understanding of where innovative thinking comes from and how it might be fostered. Through three case
- [Noösphere](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/noosphere/) - This publication documents the inner workings of the Noosphere sculpture. Noosphere is an evolving interactive spherical sculpture that acts as a powerful public beacon, a positive symbol of shared sustainable futures. The exhibitions of Noosphere have been seen by hundreds of thousands of in-person visitors in Toronto and Berlin and by millions of online viewers.
- [Living Shadows for Living Architecture Environments](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-shadows-for-living-architecture-environments-2/) - This folio describes a new Living Shadows initiative within the Living Architectures Systems Group’s (LASG’s) exploration of augmented reality environments. Living Shadows uses real-time projections to create a virtual world that augments the physical shadows of an LASG testbed. Creatures based on the sculpture’s physical components inhabit this virtual world. Set free as “living shadows,”
- [Sibyl](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/sibyl/) - This book is published to accompany the Hylozoic Series: Sibyl installation at the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia, 2012. The series of projects shown within this book explores a new generation of responsive spaces. The immersive environments of the Hylozoic Series invite viewers to raise fundamental questions about how architecture might behave
- [Hylozoic Ground](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/hylozoic-ground/) - Canada's entry to the 12th international Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, offers a vision for a new generation of responsive architecture. The collaborative work conceived by Philip Beesley is an immersive, interactive architectural installation fitted with arrays of sensors and kinetic devices. Lightweight interlinking systems are interwoven with next-generation chemistry that supports exchanges within
- [Spatial Robotic Experiences as a Ground for Future HRI Speculations](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/spatial-robotic-experiences-as-a-ground-for-future-hri-speculations/) - Abstract - This work illustrates how artistic robotic systems can provide a reservoir of unfamiliarity and a basis for speculation, to open the field toward new ways of thinking about HRI. We reflect on a collaborative project between design students, a media art studio, and design researchers working with the baggage handling department of a
- [Living Architecture Testbed](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-architecture-testbed/) - A Living Architecture testbed sculpture is now in development for the Delft Science Centre. This publication describes the multi-year project bringing this visionary, immersive environment to TU Delft. A new testbed sculpture will be installed at the entry of the new Science Centre facility. The project will act as a public beacon that gathers the
- [CITA works](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/cita-works/) - CITA works documents over 40 projects, events and research collaborations conducted between 2005 and 2014 by the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA). Through individual project descriptions accompanied by photographic documentation and design drawings, CITA works provides readers with insights into our design-led practice-based architectural research which queries how computation challenges the way we
- [White Papers 2019](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/white-papers-2019/) - The Living Architecture Systems Group is an interdisciplinary partnership of academics, artists, designers, and industry partners dedicated to researching and developing next-generation architectural environments. Projects produced by this group are now showing qualities that come strikingly close to life. These experimental works can move, respond, explore, learn, and adapt. Open boundaries and expanded dimensions run
- [LASG Symposium 2019 Proceedings](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/lasg-symposium-2019-proceedings/) - On March 1-3, 2019, the Living Architecture Systems Group Symposium gathered together a research network of architects, artists, engineers, scientists and artists exploring responsive and adaptive qualities in contemporary architecture. The Symposium 2019 Proceedings is a compendium of abstracts of papers presented at the Symposium that investigate boundaries between living forms, synthetic materiality, interactive technologies
- [Star Hub Kit: Exploring Archimedean Polyhedra](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/star-hub-kit-exploring-archimedean-polyhedra/) - This folio accompanies a construction kit that has been developed by the Living Architecture Systems Group employing soft, resilient star-shaped socket joints combined with short push-in struts. By combining arrays of these joints and struts, many kinds of geometric organizations can be easily explored. The particular forms supported by this construction system include transitions between
- [Fabricate 2024](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/fabricate-2024/) - Fabricate 2024: ‘creating resourceful futures’ is the fifth volume in the series of fabricate publications. The first conference – ‘making digital architecture’ – explored the ways in which technology, design, and industry are shaping the world around us. Since then we have become finely attuned to the negative impacts of this shaping. The 2024 conference,
- [CITA Complex Modelling](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/cita-complex-modelling/) - CITA Complex Modelling investigates the infrastructures of architectural design models. By questioning the tools for integrating information across the expanded digital design chain, the book asks how to support feedback between different scales of design engagement moving from material design, across design, simulation and analysis to specification and fabrication. The book conveys the findings of
- [Fabricate 2020](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/fabricate-2020/) - Fabricate 2020 is the fourth title in the FABRICATE series on the theme of digital fabrication and published in conjunction with a triennial conference (London, April 2020). The book features cutting-edge built projects and work-in-progress from both academia and practice. It brings together pioneers in design and making from across the fields of architecture, construction, engineering,
- [Biopolymers for Responsive Architectural Scaffolds](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/biopolymers-for-responsive-architectural-scaffolds-rethinking-firmitas/) - This folio presents the results of a series of chemical experiments for creating biopolymers that might be developed as architectural building materials. By working with biologically derived materials the experiments explore the possibility of an architecture based on a dynamic system of decay and renewal as a means to longevity rather than solidity and durability
- [New Geometric Systems: Jekabs Zvilna and Integrative Form-Languages](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/new-geometric-systems-jekabs-zvilna-and-integrative-form-languages/) - New Geometric Systems: Jekabs Zvilna and Integrative Form-Languages surveys the graphic and three-dimensional work of Waterloo Architecture professor and mid-twentieth-century designer Jekabs Zvilna. Photography of original foam and wood models by Zvilna and new essays by Val Rynnimeri and Muhammad Tahir Pervaiz are followed by studies by undergraduate students working under the supervision of Philip
- [Poietic Veil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/poietic-veil/) - This folio documents an installation that was constructed by the Living Architecture Systems Group in collaboration with Science Centre Delft and the Interactive Environments Minor of TU Delft on the occasion of a workshop with TU Delft design students led by Living Architecture Systems researchers which ran November 7–12, 2022. The publication forms part of
- [Living Architecture Systems Description](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-architecture-systems-description/) - This publication documents a data framework entitled Living Architecture Systems Description that describes the components and assemblies that make up Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) physical testbeds. The publication forms part of a series of work-in-progress reports and publications by Living Architecture researchers and contributors. The Living Architecture Systems Description (LASD) is designed for computational
- [Living Architecture Electronics Kit](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-architecture-electronics-kit/) - This folio series describes a specialized system of modular distributed electronics control hardware developed by the Living Architecture Systems Group during 2012-2019. The Arduino-based custom electronics provide individual devices containing actuators and sensors with local “intelligence.” Software interfaces are included that support the flexible development of distributed systems that can be easily multiplied and prototyped.
- [Amatria](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/amatria/) - Amatria is a 2016 sculpture authored by the Living Architecture Systems Group located within Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana USA. This folio provides an overview of the technical organization of Amatria. Amatria is a permanent sculpture offering a delicate quilt-like overhead canopy composed of hundreds of thousands of custom-made transparent components. The experimental research foregrounding this
- [Threshold](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/threshold/) - Threshold is a sculpture group that serves as a gateway within the Norman Y Mineta San José International Airport Terminal B. Threshold showcases a pair of radiant, intricate worlds enclosed within glass cases, framing the passage from the baggage area out to the city beyond. Threshold explores concepts of elemental life and new technologies for
- [Meander](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/meander/) - Meander is a large-scale immersive testbed environment constructed within a historic warehouse building at the centre of a residential highrise development in Cambridge, Ontario. The meshwork scaffolds which comprise the testbed are organized as a series of species within an artificial ecosystem, gently flexing and responding to the movement of viewers. Similar to natural environments
- [Living Architecture Testbeds](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/living-testbeds/) - This publication provides background on the development of the LASG’s testbeds and the theoretical frameworks that shape their existence in the world. It describes the practical experience of working with the testbeds, including how agreements between the LASG and its testbed partners are developed and managed over time. Finally, it offers some examples of technical,
- [ACADIA 2013 Adaptive Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/acadia-2013-adaptive-architecture/) - The proceedings of the ACADIA 2013 ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE international conference contains the research of the 33rd annual conference of the association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. Research papers selected by blind peer review include topic streams organised by general topics including materials, energy, interactive systems, information, mechanisms, and structures. The book also includes design
- [Near-Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/near-living-architecture-works-in-progress-from-the-hylozoic-ground-collaboration-2011-2013/) - "Can architecture feel, and know, and respond to their occupants? Might buildings begin, in primitive ways, to come alive? The Hylozoic Series brings together researchers and industry collaborators from Canada, USA, and Europe in an inter-disciplinary research cluster attempting to develop a potent new kind of architecture. The group is devoted to developing new technologies
- [Resurgence of Organicism](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/resurgence-of-organicism/) - The exhibition Resurgence of Organicism originated as a graduate seminar taught by Sarah Bonnemaison at Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture. In Fall 2018, graduate architecture students investigated the history and theory of organicism—through a close reading of Caroline van Eck’s seminal book on the topic— to understand its architectural manifestations over the course of centuries,
- [Sounding Bodies: Experiments in Sonically Active Surfaces](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/sounding-bodies-experiments-in-sonically-active-surfaces/) - This research folio documents the technical and poetic development of an experimental architectural installation that points toward a new model of sonic materialism. ‘Sounding Bodies’, originally installed at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2019, used audio transducers to transform galvanized steel roofing material into inhabitable loudspeakers. Rather than considering sonic emitters as point sources whose physical nature
- [Chevron Column](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/chevron-column/) - This folio contains digital fabrication component cutting patterns and assembly instructions for constructing a diagrid chevron column using push-together laser-cut components. The assembly forms a part of a large collection of lightweight components developed by the earlier Hylozoic Ground Collaboration and the current Living Architecture Systems Group. This folio was produced in association with Ian
- [Geometry Kit: Archimedean Polyhedra](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/geometry-kit/) - The geometry kit provides an opportunity to explore the forms and language of traditional geometry, and build arrays and combinations of polyhedral forms. It is intended to create familiarity with the terminology and basic form-language of polyhedra and related constructions. The Geometry Kit: Archimedean Polyhedra folio is meant to accompany the physical kit as a
- [Fossilation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/fossilation/) - This research-creation folio presents the processual and technical development of a bio-inspired architectural installation that invests the ecological imprint of images. Originally presented during the 2021 ‘’Matières d’images’’ exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (Hors Pistes Festival), Fossilation is a large suspended bioplastic membrane that repurposes food waste. The installation includes an electronic
- [Learning to Engage with Interactive Systems: A Field Study on Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Public Museum](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/learning-to-engage-with-interactive-systems-a-field-study-on-deep-reinforcement-learning-in-a-public-museum/) - Abstract—Physical agents that can autonomously generate engaging, life-like behavior will lead to more responsive and user-friendly robots and other autonomous systems. Although many advances have been made for one-to-one interactions in well-controlled settings, physical agents should be capable of interacting with humans in natural settings, including group interaction. To generate engaging behaviors, the autonomous system
- [Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/co-corporeality-of-humans-machines-microbes/) - The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and interaction between humans and microbial life. Based on design-led research, this book explores how we can develop environments for a multispecies world. It focuses on the agency of both human
- [Euphoria & Dystopia](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/euphoria-dystopia/) - Euphoria and Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues is a compendium of some of the most important thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades at the international level. Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) from 1995 to 2005, the book celebrates the
- [Mobile Nation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/mobile-nation-creating-methodologies-for-mobile-platforms/) - "Dialogues about commercial applications for the mobile platform, new technological innovations, and market development often occur in separate forums about the sociology of mobile use and creative practices outside of the contemporary commercial market. Researchers, developers, and investors in these areas all have specific approaches that they seldom have an opportunity to share. For this
- [Evolving Systems within Immersive Architectural Environments](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/evolving-systems-within-immersive-architectural-environments/) - "Canada's Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) combines scientists, engineers, architects and artists working together to create large-scale prototypes of immersive architectural spaces with qualities that come strikingly close to those of living systems. 'Working in interdisciplinary groups combining architects, engineers and scientists, LASG is building environments that can move, respond, and learn; environments that renew
- [Architecture and Adaptation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/architecture-and-adaptation/) - "Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction,
- [Dissipative Architectures](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/dissipative-architectures/) - "To date, much of the associated architectural thinking and conceptualization has been restricted to a relatively narrow field of potential spatial and experiential implications, in particular around the notion of smart homes driven by preprogrammed behaviours. However an alternative point of departure is to consider a living system like a densely layered forest, where di
- [White Papers 2016](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/white-papers/) - Living Architecture Systems White Papers is a dossier produced for the occasion of the Living Architecture Systems Group launch event and symposium hosted on November 4 and 5, 2016 at the Living Architecture Systems Sterling Road Studio in Toronto and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture at Cambridge. The White Papers presents research contributions
- [Interacting with Curious Agents](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/interacting-with-curious-agents/) - Abstract— To enable long term, engaging social human-machine interaction, robots and other autonomous systems must be able to move beyond purely reactive interaction control strategies, and engage in shared-initiative interaction. In this paper, we describe an implementation of an interactive art sculpture which generates interactive behaviours using curiosity-based learning. Using its own internal motivation formulated
- [On Growth and Form: The Engineering of Nature](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/on-growth-and-form-the-engineering-of-nature/) - "In this conference we want to explore the complex interweavings between nature and artifice that make our world." On Growth and Form: the Engineering of Nature Edited by: Philip Beesley and Sarah Bonnemaison University of Waterloo School of Architecture 2001
- [Ourtopias](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/ourtopias/) - "Ourtopias seeks to explore the varied and future states of cities. The roles cities play in the economic, social and cultural lives of societies, such topics as the architectural, design and material culture of cities, densification, urban renewal, branding, zoning, adaptive re-use, gentrification, social responsibility and historic preservation are explored. It is the purpose of
- [Curiosity-Based Learning Algorithm](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/curiosity-based-learning-algorithm/) - "The ability to engage human observers is a key requirement for both social robots and the arts. In this paper, we propose an approach for adapting the Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity learning algorithm to distributed interactive sculptural systems. This Curiosity-Based Learning Algorithm (CBLA) allows the system to learn about its own mechanisms and its surroundings through
- [Planet B: 100 Ideas for a New World](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/planet-b-100-ideas-for-a-new-world/) - "Can architecture integrate near-living functions? The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) is bringing together researchers and industry collaborators from Canada, USA, and Europe in an interdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to an emerging trend of architectural design that questions definitions of life itself. Applying knowledge from interdisciplinary research, LASG is developing built environments with qualities that
- [Expanding Bodies: Art - Cities - Environment](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/expanding-bodies-art-cities-environment/) - "The ACADIA 2007 conference Expanding Bodies: Art, Cities and Environment invited researchers to consider questions: how are perceptions affected by remote sensing? How will cities develop in relation to responsive, intelligent buildings, and what happens when interactive systems are introduced into the environment? The conference papers focus on expanding physical boundaries and expanding bodies of
- [On Growth and Form: Organic Architecture and Beyond](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/on-growth-and-form-organic-architecture-and-beyond/) - "D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson demonstrated new working methods for understanding the influence of physical forces within the environment. The projects described in this book are based on analysis and design methods whose development owes much to Thompson's research. The architectural projects discussed in this book explore structural systems based on tensile and 'tensegrity' systems in which
- [Solar House: Team Montréal Entry to the Solar Decathlon](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/publication/solar-house-team-montreal-entry-to-the-solar-decathlon/) - "The Solar Decathlon is a biennial international competition that challenges university teams across the United States, Europe and Canada to compete in designing, building and operating a 100% solar powered house. This book documents the 2007 entry of TEAM MONTREAL, a consortium between l'école de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), l'Université de Montréal faculté de l'amenagement, and

## Presentation

- [Other](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/presentation/other/)
- [LASG Symposium 2019](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/presentation/living-architecture-systems-group-symposium-2019-update/)
- [LASG Symposium 2016](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/presentation/living-architecture-systems-group-symposium-2016/)

## Video

- [Podcast S1E1: Principles, Aesthetics and Sustainability of Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/webinar-s1e1-principles-aesthetics-and-sustainability-of-living-architecture/)
- [An Open Software Ecosystem for Designing Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/an-open-software-ecosystem-for-designing-living-architecture/)
- [The Spatialized Digital Milieu: An Infrastructure Approach to the Design of Responsive Environments](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/the-spatialized-digital-milieu-an-infrastructure-approach-to-the-design-of-responsive-environments/)
- [A future of living architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/a-future-of-living-architecture/)
- [What I can offer is an architecture of hope](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/architect-philip-beesley-what-i-can-offer-is-an-architecture-of-hope/)
- [Amatria's 3rd Birthday Celebration](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/amatrias-3rd-birthday-celebration/)
- [Presentations: Interactive Design](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/presentations-interactive-design/)
- [About Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/about-architecture/)
- [Meander: Precarious Action within Aether](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/meander-precarious-action-within-aether/)
- [Conversation 3: Breath](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/conversation-3-breath/)
- [Meander Opening](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/meander-opening/)
- [Robotics Public Debates 2019](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/norman-foster-foundation-robotics-public-debates-2019/)
- [FABRICATE 2020 Video On Demand](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/fabricate-2020-video-on-demand/)
- [FABRICATE 2020 West Panel](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/fabricate-2020-west-panel/)
- [FABRICATE 2020 East Panel](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/fabricate-2020-east-panel/)
- [Boisbuchet | In conversation with | Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/boisbuchet-in-conversation-with-philip-beesley/)
- [Reader in Design Computation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/martyn-dade-robertson/)
- [Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/simone-ferracina/)
- [Blackwell Structural Engineers](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/david-bowick/)
- [Introduction of Stream Six](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/sarah-bonnemaison/)
- [Living Architecture Systems](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/dana-kulic/)
- [Symposium 2016 Keynote: Alive](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/symposium-2016-keynote-mark-cohen/)
- [Attuning Matter](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/attuning-matter-dana-cupkova/)
- [Breathe](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/breathe-manuel-kretzer/)
- [Soft Kinetics](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/soft-kinetics-vera-parlac/)
- [The Universal Human Attraction to Vitality](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/the-universal-human-attraction-to-vitality-colin-ellard/)
- [Symposium 2019 Keynote: Envisioning the Internet of Things](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/envisioning-the-internet-of-things-katy-borner-with-andreas-bueckle/)
- [Symposium 2019 Keynote: Less Interference/More Dance](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/less-interference-more-dance-paul-pangaro/)
- [Exploring Organicism](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/exploring-organicism-sarah-bonnemaison/)
- [Worldmaking as Techne: Participatory Art, Music and Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/worldmaking-as-techne-participatory-art-music-and-architecture-mark-david-hosale/)
- [Sketches of Tectonic Culture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/sketches-of-tectonic-culture-michael-stacey/)
- [Form from Process: Jekabs Zvilna and Integrative Form Languages](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/form-from-process-jekabs-zvilna-and-integrative-form-languages-val-rynnimeri/)
- [Autodesk Technology Centers & Residency Program](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/autodesk-technology-centers-residency-program-ellen-hlozan-matthew-spremulli/)
- [The Future Depends on Us Being Better Collaborators](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/the-future-depends-on-us-being-better-collaborators-jd-talasek/)
- [Design-to-Robotic Production and Operation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/design-to-robotic-production-and-operation-henriette-bier/)
- [Embodied Computation and Autonomous Architectural Robots](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/embodied-computation-and-autonomous-architectural-robots-axel-kilian/)
- [Botanical Fur](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/botanical-fur-carole-collet/)
- [fora robotica: Investigating a Living Bio-Hybrid Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/fora-robotica-investigating-a-living-bio-hybrid-architecture-phil-ayres/)
- [Monarch Sanctuary](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/monarch-sanctuary-mitchell-joachim/)
- [Wild & Domestic: Architecture and the Nonhuman](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/wild-domestic-architecture-and-the-nonhuman-andrew-kudless/)
- [Sensibilities of Artificial Intelligence](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/sensibilities-of-artificial-intelligence-matias-del-campo/)
- [In Theoretical Physics: PB, IvH and the LASG](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/in-theoretical-physics-pb-ivh-and-the-lasg-michael-awad/)
- [Chaosing into Balance](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/chaosing-into-balance-navid-navab/)
- [Being-in-the-Breathable: Field Work in Mobility and Atmosphere](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/being-in-the-breathable-field-work-in-mobility-and-atmosphere-robert-bean/)
- [Biometrics in Participatory Collective Arts](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/biometrics-in-participatory-collective-arts-alan-macy/)
- [Living Construction](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/living-construction-martyn-dade-robertson/)
- [Porøs: Phenomenon + Apparatus](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/poros-phenomenon-apparatus-neil-forrest/)
- [New Materials for an Era of Material Change](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/new-materials-for-an-era-of-material-change-mette-ramsgaard-thomsen/)
- [4D Printing: Design and Dynamic Forms](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/4d-printing-design-and-dynamic-forms-tim-miller-ross-stevens-and-bernard-guy/)
- [Research Exposed: Living Wall System Prototype](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/research-exposed-living-wall-system-prototype-petra-gruber/)
- [Feasibility Fueled Experimentation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/feasibility-fueled-experimentation-michael-fox-juintow-lin/)
- [Knit, Wound, Woven](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/knit-wound-woven-andrew-wit/)
- [Darkness by Day](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/darkness-by-day-catie-newell/)
- [Learning Through Interaction](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/learning-through-interaction-dana-kulic/)
- [Toward Playful Intelligence in Shared Reality](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/toward-playful-intelligence-in-shared-reality-haru-ji-and-graham-wakefield/)
- [Toward a Unified Behaviour Previsualization and Control System for LASG](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/toward-a-unified-behaviour-previsualization-and-control-system-for-lasg-matt-gorbet/)
- [Engaging People in Interactive Architectural Ecosystems](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/engaging-people-in-interactive-architectural-ecosystems-tomasz-jaskiewicz/)
- [Improvisatory Events Using SC: A Modular Software Suite](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/video/improvisatory-events-using-sc-a-modular-software-suite-sha-xin-wei-and-brandon-mechtley/)

## News

- [Iris van Herpen Explores Sensory Crossovers in Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-explores-sensory-crossovers-in-fashion/)
- [Science and Culture: Sentient architecture promises insight into our evolving relationship with AI](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/science-and-culture-sentient-architecture-promises-insight-into-our-evolving-relationship-with-ai/)
- [Fashion & Architecture, Redefined: Iris Van Herpen and Philip Beesley at the Royal Ontario Museum](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/fashion-architecture-redefined-iris-van-herpen-and-philip-beesley-at-the-royal-ontario-museum/)
- [Is Philip Beesley the Most Enigmatic Architect in Toronto?](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/is-philip-beesley-the-most-enigmatic-architect-in-toronto/)
- [Transforming Space: Philip Beesley exhibition coming to ROM](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/transforming-space-philip-beesley-exhibition-coming-to-rom/)
- [Living Architecture ‘Astrocyte’ Questions Whether Buildings Can Think and Care](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/living-architecture-astrocyte-questions-whether-buildings-can-think-and-care/)
- [Living Architecture Systems’ Immersive Soundscape ‘Astrocyte’ Says A Lot About Listening](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/living-architecture-systems-immersive-soundscape-astrocyte-says-a-lot-about-listening/)
- [Artist Philip Beesley Merges Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, and Interactivity to Create “Living” Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/artist-philip-beesley-merges-chemistry-artificial-intelligence-and-interactivity-to-create-living-architecture/)
- [7 Fashion Duos on the Rewards of Collaboration](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/7-fashion-duos-on-the-rewards-of-collaboration/)
- [Six Highlights of Toronto’s Upcoming EDIT Design Festival](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/six-highlights-of-torontos-upcoming-edit-design-festival/)
- [Philip Beesley on Prototyping and Producing Responsive Installations, Van Herpen Couture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-on-prototyping-and-producing-responsive-installations-van-herpen-couture/)
- [Distorting Reality at Iris Van Herpen and Schiaparelli at Couture Fashion Week](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/distorting-reality-at-iris-van-herpen-and-schiaparelli-at-couture-fashion-week/)
- [SPRING 2017 COUTURE Iris van Herpen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/spring-2017-couture-iris-van-herpen/)
- [An Interview with Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/an-interview-with-philip-beesley/)
- [Exhibit | Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/exhibit-iris-van-herpen-transforming-fashion/)
- [Iris van Herpen is Pushing the Boundaries of Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-is-pushing-the-boundaries-of-fashion/)
- [Couturier Iris van Herpen on the Future of Sustainable Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/couturier-iris-van-herpen-on-the-future-of-sustainable-fashion/)
- [Iris van Herpen on the Importance of Handicraft and the Future of Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-on-the-importance-of-handicraft-and-the-future-of-fashion/)
- [‘Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion’ at the ROM](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-transforming-fashion-at-the-rom/)
- [ROM’s Iris van Herpen exhibition focuses on the futurism of fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/roms-iris-van-herpen-exhibition-focuses-on-the-futurism-of-fashion/)
- [Iris van Herpen and Philip Beesley: a fashion and architecture due cut from uncommon cloth](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-and-philip-beesley-a-fashion-and-architecture-due-cut-from-uncommon-cloth/)
- [Studio Visit: Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/studio-visit-philip-beesley/)
- [Architect Philip Beesley on his Friendship with Iris van Herpen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/architect-philip-beesley-on-his-friendship-with-iris-van-herpen/)
- [Iris van Herpen and Philip Beesley at the ROM](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-and-philip-beesley-at-the-rom/)
- [Iris van Herpen Fall 2014 PFW](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-fall-2014-pfw/)
- [The Unspeakable Shaking Ground](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-unspeakable-shaking-ground/)
- [Philip Beesley: Pluripotent Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-pluripotent-architecture/)
- [Radiant Soil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/radiant-soil/)
- [Under the sea: How this architect turned Toronto's city hall into the ocean](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/under-the-sea-how-this-architect-turned-torontos-city-hall-into-the-ocean-2/)
- [Philip Beesley Transforms Spaces with Living Sculptures](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-transforms-spaces-with-living-sculptures/)
- [Behind the Scenes: Philip Beesley Adds to Iris van Herpen’s Paris Exhibition](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/behind-the-scenes-philip-beesley-adds-to-iris-van-herpens-paris-exhibition/)
- [Living Architecture Systems Group Partnership recognized as SSHRC Impact Award Finalist](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/professor-philip-beesley-a-finalist-for-the-2022-sshrc-impact-award/)
- [Fossilation at the Centre Pompidou](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/fossilation-at-the-centre-pompidou/)
- [Monash University Opens World-Class Robotics Research Facility](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/monash-university-opens-world-class-robotics-research-facility/)
- [Spool Cyber-physical Architecture #5 on Interdisciplinary Data-integrated Approaches has just been published!](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/spool-cyber-physical-architecture-5-on-interdisciplinary-data-integrated-approaches-has-just-been-published/)
- [Project LEO turns Riverview Highschool students into creators by combining arts and science](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/project-leo-turns-riverview-highschool-students-into-creators-by-combining-arts-and-science/)
- [“Threshold” – an exploration of creation through technology and aesthetics](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/threshold-an-exploration-of-creation-through-technology-and-aesthetics/)
- [Inspired by living architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/inspired-by-living-architecture/)
- [Philip Beesley Brings a Living Galaxy to Venice](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-brings-a-living-galaxy-to-venice/)
- [Dream-like Space Brought to Life in Venice](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/dream-like-space-brought-to-life-in-venice/)
- [Philip Beesley and the Living Architecture Systems Group opens installation at Venice Architecture Biennale](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-and-the-living-architecture-systems-group-opens-installation-at-venice-architecture-biennale/)
- [How Will We Live Together? Venice Biennale 2021 Explores the Architectural Potential in a Post-Pandemic World](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/how-will-we-live-together-venice-biennale-2021-explores-the-architectural-potential-in-a-post-pandemic-world/)
- [The Breath & the Clay LASG Panel Discussion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-breath-the-clay-lasg-panel-discussion/)
- [DigitalFUTURES Interactive Design Talk](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/digitalfutures-interactive-design-talk/)
- [Bits - Meander by Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/bits-meander-by-philip-beesley/)
- [A sculpture that moves, lights up and makes sounds](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/a-sculpture-that-moves-lights-up-and-makes-sounds/)
- [Large permanent living architecture sculpture unveiled in Cambridge, Ont.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/large-permanent-living-architecture-sculpture-unveiled-in-cambridge-ont/)
- [New 'living' sculpture in Cambridge offers vision for sustainable future](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/new-living-sculpture-in-cambridge-offers-vision-for-sustainable-future/)
- [Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sagmeister-walsh-beauty/)
- [Wonderfully Clever Designs Using ACRYLITE® Make It To The “Olympics” Of Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/wonderfully-clever-designs-using-acrylite-make-it-to-the-olympics-of-architecture/)
- [CITA Complex Modelling Book Launch](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/cita-complex-modelling-book-launch/)
- [STARTS Prize Forum 2020: Andrea Ling](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/starts-prize-forum-2020-andrea-ling/)
- [Colloquy of Mobiles Exhibition](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/colloquy-of-mobiles-exhibition/)
- [Ada](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/ada/)
- [Meander Opening](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/meander-opening/)
- [Symposium 2019](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/symposium-2019/)
- [Symposium 2016](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/symposium-2016/)
- [The home of the future might constantly adapt to its residents](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-home-of-the-future-might-constantly-adapt-to-its-residents/)
- [Haute Couture: The most extraordinary looks from Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2020](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/haute-couture-the-most-extraordinary-looks-from-fashion-week-spring-summer-2020/)
- [The Aleph Project at MMCA Seoul](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-aleph-project-at-mmca-seoul/)
- [These Robotic Jungles Want to Eat You - Hylozoic Series](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/these-robotic-jungles-want-to-eat-you-hylozoic-series/)
- [Sydney Bienale Installation Video - Hylozoic Series: Sibyl, 2012](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sydney-bienale-installation-video-hylozoic-series-sibyl-2012/)
- [How to grow a biological city of the future](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/how-to-grow-a-biological-city-of-the-future/)
- [Complexity and Evolving Synthetic Soil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/complexity-and-evolving-synthetic-soil/)
- [Hylozoic Ground 2011 Video - Venice Biennale 2011 Canadian Pavilion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hylozoic-ground-2011-video/)
- [Breathing Pores Video - Venice Biennale 2011 Canadian Pavilion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/breathing-pores-video-venice-biennale-2011-canadian-pavilion/)
- [Interactive Network Video - Venice Biennale 2011 Canadian Pavilion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/interactive-network-video-venice-biennale-2011-canadian-pavilion/)
- [Topologies - Venice Biennale 2011 Canadian Pavilion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/topologies-venice-biennale-2011-canadian-pavilion/)
- [Sargasso Installation Blog](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sargasso-installation-blog/)
- [Crossroads of the West: Hylozoic Veil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/crossroads-of-the-west-hylozoic-veil/)
- [Hylozoic Veil: Philip Beesley Interview video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hylozoic-veil-philip-beesley-interview-video/)
- [Hylozoic Soil video - Component Demonstrations](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hylozoic-soil-video-component-demonstrations/)
- [IRIS van HERPEN avant gardiste HAUTE COUTURE for fall 2012](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-avant-gardiste-haute-couture-for-fall-2012/)
- [Versace glitters, Dior renews, Van Herpen stuns](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/versace-glitters-dior-renews-van-herpen-stuns/)
- [Couture's graceful aliens at Iris Van Herpen](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/coutures-graceful-aliens-at-iris-van-herpen/)
- [Sterling Rd: Artistic hotbed, but with development plans looming, for how long?](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sterling-rd-artistic-hotbed-but-with-development-plans-looming-for-how-long/)
- [Simons victorious](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/simons-victorious/)
- [Q&A: Iris van Herpen on Couture, Her Shrink-Wrapped Models, & More](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/qa-iris-van-herpen-on-couture-her-shrink-wrapped-models-more/)
- [Iris Van Herpen and 'a Different Way of Thinking'](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-and-a-different-way-of-thinking/)
- [Here's How You Make High Fashion Inspired by Magnetic Fields](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/heres-how-you-make-high-fashion-inspired-by-magnetic-fields/)
- [Iris van Herpen uses 3D printing and magnets to form Spring Summer 2015 fashion collection](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-uses-3d-printing-and-magnets-to-form-spring-summer-2015-fashion-collection/)
- [Magnetic Motion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/magnetic-motion/)
- [Editor’s picks from Paris Fashion Week A/W 2015: womenswear collections](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/editors-picks-from-paris-fashion-week-a-w-2015-womenswear-collections/)
- [“Hate the Raindrop” and Other Reflections on DASER](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hate-the-raindrop-and-other-reflections-on-daser/)
- [Iris van Herpen's FW collection Lucid for fall 2016 features dreamlike 3D printed dresses](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpens-fw-collection-lucid-for-fall-2016-features-dreamlike-3d-printed-dresses/)
- [Top 10 Moments From Paris Fashion Week](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/top-10-moments-from-paris-fashion-week/)
- [Creativity in Lucid Dream States: Iris van Herpen's A/W 2016-17](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/creativity-in-lucid-dream-states-iris-van-herpens-a-w-2016-17/)
- [Author of 'Interactive Architecture' on the built environment in the age of ubiquitous computing](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/author-of-interactive-architecture-on-the-built-environment-in-the-age-of-ubiquitous-computing/)
- [Iris Van Herpen Is Revolutionizing the Look and Tech of Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-is-revolutionizing-the-look-and-tech-of-fashion/)
- [Report: Beginning from the Endless End: A Community of Thinking: The Experience of the European Graduate School](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/report-beginning-from-the-endless-end-a-community-of-thinking-the-experience-of-the-european-graduate-school/)
- [Gorgeous Ethereal Dresses That Feature 3D Printed Squid, Octopus and Other Deep Sea Creatures](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/gorgeous-ethereal-dresses-that-feature-3d-printed-squid-octopus-and-other-deep-sea-creatures/)
- [Nuit Blanche offering Toronto a leaner selection of dusk-to-dawn art projects](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/nuit-blanche-offering-toronto-a-leaner-selection-of-dusk-to-dawn-art-projects/)
- [Putting Maps to the Test | A Review of Mapping Macrocosms](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/putting-maps-to-the-test-a-review-of-mapping-macrocosms/)
- [Experiments in Imperfection: Iris van Herpen's Couture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/experiments-in-imperfection-iris-van-herpens-couture/)
- [The Robots Have Eyes, Vitra Design Museum Exhibit Warns](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-robots-have-eyes-vitra-design-museum-exhibit-warns/)
- [Hello Robot: Design Between Human and Machine](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hello-robot-design-between-human-and-machine/)
- [Sound art at the Gardner: seeing with your ears](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sound-art-at-the-gardner-seeing-with-your-ears/)
- [Listen Hear: The Art of Sound at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/listen-hear-the-art-of-sound-at-the-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum/)
- [All ears: Listen Hear adds a new dimension to the Gardner Museum experience](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/all-ears-listen-hear-adds-a-new-dimension-to-the-gardner-museum-experience/)
- [The ethical shape of sensitive machines](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-ethical-shape-of-sensitive-machines/)
- [Beesley's new sculptural environments employ artificial intelligence and synthetic biology](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/beesleys-new-sculptural-environments-employ-artificial-intelligence-and-synthetic-biology/)
- [The Work of the Living Architecture Systems Group: Texas A&M University Exhibition Catalogu](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-work-of-the-living-architecture-systems-group-texas-am-university-exhibition-catalogu/)
- [Iris van Herpen collaborates with architects for hypnotizing couture presentation](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-collaborates-with-architects-for-hypnotizing-couture-presentation/)
- [Architecture and Design Workshops: The Top 5 of Summer 2019](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/architecture-and-design-workshops-the-top-5-of-summer-2019/)
- [Iris van Herpen: From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, <br>a New Approach to Fashion](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen/)
- [Robotics in Architecture debate video at Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/robotics-in-architecture-debate-at-norman-foster-foundation-madrid/)
- [Philip Beesley & CITA - Sargasso Cloud, Responsive Environment 2009 video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-cita-sargasso-cloud-responsive-environment-2009-video/)
- [Exhibit Conveys Climate With Architecture for the Five Senses](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/exhibit-conveys-climate-with-architecture-for-the-five-senses/)
- [The Evening of Philip Beesley, DEAF2012, Photo Gallery](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/the-evening-of-philip-beesley-deaf2012-photo-gallery/)
- [Sargasso Cloud - time lapse video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sargasso-cloud-time-lapse-video/)
- [entrevista Hylozoic Soil (Philip Beesley) / (IN) POSICIÓN DINÁMICA](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/entrevista-hylozoic-soil-philip-beesley-in-posicion-dinamica/)
- [Living materials for the built environment video: Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim - Talks at Google](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/living-materials-for-the-built-environment-rachel-armstrong-mitchell-joachim-talks-at-google/)
- [It’s alive! Hylozoic Ground](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/its-alive-hylozoic-ground/)
- [Hylozoic Ground video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hylozoic-ground-video/)
- [Philip Beesley: Responsive Environments](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-responsive-environments/)
- [Installations by Architects: Geotextiles by Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/installations-by-architects-geotextiles-by-philip-beesley/)
- [Best of 2010 - Event Reports: Philip Beesley's Aurora at Nuit Blanche](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/best-of-2010-event-reports-philip-beesleys-aurora-at-nuit-blanche/)
- [Sculpture at Salt Lake City's new museum, The Leonardo, fuses technology, art and life: Hylozoic Ground](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/sculpture-at-salt-lake-citys-new-museum-the-leonardo-fuses-technology-art-and-life-hylozoic-ground/)
- [Hylozoic Ground: Time Lapse Video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/hylozoic-ground-time-lapse-video/)
- [At 3 stories high, unusual exhibit takes center stage at The Leonardo: Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/at-3-stories-high-unusual-exhibit-takes-center-stage-at-the-leonardo-hylozoic-ground-by-philip-beesley/)
- [Leonardo Features Experimental, Responsive Architecture: Hylozoic Ground radio interview](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/leonardo-features-experimental-responsive-architecture-hylozoic-ground-radio-interview/)
- [Exhibition Review: Salt Lake Triffids Land at Leonardo! Take Cover! Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Veil](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/exhibition-review-salt-lake-triffids-land-at-leonardo-take-cover-philip-beesleys-hylozoic-veil/)
- [Interactive sculpture is a template for carbon-negative homes](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/interactive-sculpture-is-a-template-for-carbon-negative-homes/)
- [Philip Beesley: Installations at a strange borderland](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-installations-at-a-strange-borderland/)
- [Toronto - Phillip Beesley: Allen Lambert Galleria](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/toronto-phillip-beesley-allen-lambert-galleria/)
- [Philip Beesley Architect: Sargasso Video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-architect-sargasso-video/)
- [Creative Process: Architect Philip Beesley](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/creative-process-architect-philip-beesley/)
- [LEXUS HYBRID ART – The Art of the Future Returns to Moscow](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/lexus-hybrid-art-the-art-of-the-future-returns-to-moscow/)
- [RE-STITCHING: A round-table discussion generated by STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward Video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/re-stitching-a-round-table-discussion-generated-by-stitches-suzhou-fast-forward-video/)
- [Changing face of modern art - Hylozoic Series: Vesica](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/changing-face-of-modern-art-hylozoic-series-vesica/)
- [DeSForM 2012: Philip Beesley Diffusive Form and Near‐Living Environments Lecture Video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/desform-2012-philip-beesley-diffusive-form-and-near‐living-environments-lecture-video/)
- [Futuristic Wonder - Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Series: Vesica](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/futuristic-wonder-philip-beesleys-hylozoic-series-vesica/)
- [Entrevista Philip Beesley - Primer Premio VIDA 11.0 video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/entrevista-philip-beesley-primer-premio-vida-11-0-video/)
- [ACADIA Discourse: Philip Beesley and Skylar Tibbits](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/acadia-discourse-philip-beesley-and-skylar-tibbits/)
- [2012 Artist Interview Series: Philip Beesley video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/2012-artist-interview-series-philip-beesley-video/)
- [18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/18th-biennale-of-sydney-all-our-relations-video/)
- [Protocell Mesh, Nottingham Photo Gallery](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/protocell-mesh-nottingham-photo-gallery/)
- [Epiphyte Chamber Vogue Photo Gallery](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/epiphyte-chamber-vogue-photo-gallery/)
- [A Chamber Of Lights That Feels What You Feel](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/a-chamber-of-lights-that-feels-what-you-feel/)
- [Iris Van Herpen SS15, Paris Backstage Photos](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-ss15-paris-backstage-photos/)
- [Beesley, It Lives! Video](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/beesley-it-lives-video/)
- [Iris Van Herpen Ready To Wear Fall Winter 2015 Paris](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-ready-to-wear-fall-winter-2015-paris/)
- [Accelerate internship marks first-ever collaboration between Mitacs and U of W humanities student](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/accelerate-internship-marks-first-ever-collaboration-between-mitacs-and-u-of-w-humanities-student/)
- [Philip Beesley & Rob Gorbert - Embodied Systems for Learning: Work in Progress from the Living Architecture Systems Group video lecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesley-rob-gorbert-embodied-systems-for-learning-work-in-progress-from-the-living-architecture-systems-group-video-lecture/)
- [Art of Science: Philip Beesley’s Sentient Chamber](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/art-of-science-philip-beesleys-sentient-chamber/)
- [Iris Van Herpen: Fall 2016 Slideshow](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-fall-2016-slideshow/)
- [Iris Van Herpen Full Show Video Fall 2016 Paris Fashion Week](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/iris-van-herpen-full-show-video-fall-2016-paris-fashion-week/)
- [How architect Philip Beesley uses artificial intelligence to create transformative environments.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/how-architect-philip-beesley-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-create-transformative-environments/)
- [Brief Architecture and Fashion Comparison](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/brief-architecture-and-fashion-comparison/)
- [Beesley uses tech to stretch architectural boundaries](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/beesley-uses-tech-to-stretch-architectural-boundaries/)
- [Philip Beesley's Sentient Veil comes alive at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/news/philip-beesleys-sentient-veil-comes-alive-at-the-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum/)

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- [Podcast S1E2: Biology, Computation, and Care in the Anthropocene](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s1e2/)
- [Podcast S1E1: Principles, Aesthetics, and Sustainability of Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/living/)
- [Podcast S1E3: Biology, Computation, and Care in the Anthropocene - Part 2](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s1e3/)
- [Podcast S3E3: Living Architecture: the role of ceremony, ritual, and critical pedagogy in being-in-the-world.](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s3e3/)
- [Podcast S3E2: Collaborating with living systems: How mycelium can help us rethink architectural practice](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s3e2/)
- [Podcast S3E1: Bridging the gap between living and architecture: metabolic buildings, technological species, and a culture of care](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s3e1/)
- [Podcast S2E1: Listening to Many Voices: Inclusivity and Living Architecture](https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s2e1/)

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