Portsmouth School of Architecture (ARCH)

Profile

• Research & KT coordinator
• IT coordinator
• CURe - Centre for Urban Regeneration, chair
• SCAN Board member
• Pass staff coordinator
• A wide range of knowledge and expertise in architectural practice, architectural education and research
• Established electronic Design Studio, an innovative teaching-learning environment
• Successful HEFCE Funded project for the 'Creative use of Computers in Design, Best Teaching Learning Practice' and 1st International symposium on Digital Creativity 2000
• Visiting Scholar at MIT & UCLA
• Sustainable Cities - postgraduate studio

Research Groups

Urbanism - co chair
Urbanism - the essential order and coherence of the urban fabric and its special buildings, and the way that this adds value to a city's civic, cultural and social life. Research on computational design codes and creative design applets for urban regeneration, which concerns itself with a powerful analytical and generative approach to shape and spatial systems.

Creating a Low Carbon South East - Low Carbon Awards - Susprupol project, November 2007

'City - University, distributed workplace' conference Easter 2008

Progressive Technologies

• Explorations and innovations involving theories of computation dealing with problem solving, computational theory and complexity theories, formal models of computation, issues involving the logical processes of design thinking, covering languages of architectural form, their description by means of formal grammars, their interpretation, and their role in structuring design thinking.

• In particular research work that re-examines central issues of design theory in the light of recent advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, algorithmic processes, and the theory of computation.

• International Symposium Digital Creativity September 2008

• Pyciscality of Virtual Space - collaborative research project with the School of Creative Technologies, 2007/8