Cities in Flux: Eco-Mobility?

This collaborative lecture is a joint effort between Critical Digital, Harvard GSD and the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL London:
Who? Yasmine Abbas, DDes 2006, Harvard University Graduate School of Design + Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Master of Science in Virtual Environments 2001, Bartlett, UCL + Ben Croxford, Senior Lecturer on the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett
Where? Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Room 109
When? Monday January 22, 2007, 9am •

Ava Fatah gen. Schieck is a Registered Architect in Germany with years of experience in practice. She holds a Master of Science in Virtual Environments (2001) from the Bartlett, UCL. She is primarily interested in exploring the relation between new technology and architecture in particular within the historic context. Ava is a Senior Research Fellow, Bartlett, UCL. She has worked on several research projects at the Bartlett investigating the relation between the physical, the digital, and the social. Currently she is involved in the research into the use of location-based computing in an urban context in the historic city of Bath as part of the Cityware project. Previous research include interface design for Augment Reality collaborative environments and the impact on the design process, information spaces and automotive design.

Ben Croxford has been responsible for developing the Bartlett’s research into air quality. This has involved developing novel pollution monitors through to leading on cross-disciplinary research linking air quality to health and spatial layout. He has extensive experience in the monitoring and modeling of various environmental factors in and around buildings especially temperature, humidity and air pollution. He has worked on several research projects at the Bartlett, investigating distribution of carbon monoxide in streets, air quality in offices and also air quality in dwellings with gas cookers. He has designed and developed the StreetBox instrument for measuring carbon monoxide that is being commercially produced by Learian Ltd. This has since been further developed with Learian into a new, smaller much more affordable product, the ICOM. A large number of these are being used on various research projects including personally supervised MSc projects. Ben Croxford is a senior lecturer on the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering. He has successfully developed and managed the dissertation part of the course for the last 5 years, directly supervising around 80 students. He also supervises 5 PhD students with topics ranging from sustainability analysis of solar cookers in Sudan to air conditioning use in Malaysia.

I would like to particularly thank Jan, Jie-Eun, Doug, and Marc for the support/technical/preparation on this side of the Atlantic, and Ava, Jason, Patrick on the UK side ;)