On Wednesday January 18th, 11am
Zeynep Aksöz Balzar talked about Artificial Narratives: Design in the Age of AI – She is an architect and a creative coder. She is one of two partners of Vienna based design and research collective Open Fields. Currently she is a Research Associate and a lecturer at University of Applied Arts Vienna, an Assistant Professor at TU Vienna in the Department for Structural Design, Faculty in IAAC Barcelona. Through her ongoing research, teaching, and practice Zeynep explores generative design processes and the implementation of AI based processes into design, architecture, and urbanism. Her focus lies in developing emergent design approaches through the collaboration of human and artificial intelligence.
Zeynep is the recipient of Research Prize for Architecture from the National Chamber of Architects, Austria and a former Marie Curie fellow. Together with Mark Balzar, Bernhard Sommer, and Galo Moncayo she is the recipient of FWF PEEK funding for their Project Vibrant Fields. In collaboration with Nicolaj Kirisits she received INTRA funding for the project titled Morphology of Sound.
Her creative and scientific work has been published in books such as Fabricate, Design Transactions, in conference proceedings including Design Modeling Symposium, Acadia as well as in architecture magazine Manege. Zeynep has exhibited her work at the Vienna Design Week, Bratislava Design Week, in KADK Copenhagen, Salona di Mobile in Milan, London Design Festival, Daniels School of Architecture in Toronto, and Architecture Biennale die Venezia.
Zeynep received her Doctoral degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Institute of Architecture under supervision of Klaus Bollinger. She was a Marie Curie Fellow and an early-stage researcher as part of the international training network Innochain. She holds a MArch degree from the Architectural Association of London’s Emergent Technologies and Design Program and MSc degree from TU Wien.
The form of the seminar was hybrid: in Seminarraum FAV05; HA0503; Favoritenstr. 9-11 as well as online.
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