Human-in-the-Loop – How Human-Machine Collaboration could Shape the Future of Digital Design and Fabrication
Poster Online Lecture Series »Talking Matters«, Copyright: Cécile Bidan and Salif Sawadogo, adapted by NODE Berlin
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, the Cluster lecture series »Talking Matters« began. At the kick-off event, architects Kathrin Dörfler and Romana Rust spoke about »Human-in-the-Loop – How Human-Machine Collaboration could Shape the Future of Digital Design and Fabrication«.
The lecture was given in English. It was part of the online lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« entitled »Talking Matters«.
Abstract
As an alternative to the vision of fully automated design and construction processes, hybrid, mutually augmented human-machine processes could form a paradigm shift in architecture and digital fabrication. This talk will provide insights into how such hybrid design and fabrication chains use machine intelligence and robot capacities while at the same time involve the participatory engagement of humans and thus create mutual gain.
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Kathrin Dörfler, Prof. Dr. sc. ETH, TU München
Kathrin Dörfler is an architect and researcher in the field of robotic fabrication. Her research focuses on on-site robotic and mixed-reality fabrication. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from TU Vienna, and a PhD degree in Digital Fabrication from ETH Zurich. Together with Romana Rust, she co-founded the Architecture studio dorfundrust. Her articles have been published by GAM and Springer and she has participated in various exhibition projects. Kathrin Dörfler was both PhD and postdoc at Gramazio Kohler Research at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication. In summer 2019, she joined TU Munich as a Tenure Track Professor to establish a research group at the TUM Department of Architecture and the TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering.
Romana Rust, Dr. sc. ETH, Senior Research Assistant, ETH Zürich
Romana Rust is Senior Assistant at Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich within the Design++ initiative – Centre for Augmented Computational Design in AEC. She is also Co-coordinator of the Immersive Design Lab, a lab for collaborative research and teaching in the field of extended reality (XR) in architecture and construction. She has led several workshops and her research has been published in multiple international conferences. Her particular interest is the development of innovative computational approaches that integrate design, materiality and fabrication. She is member of the core developer team of COMPAS, the open-source computational framework for collaboration and research in architecture, structures and digital fabrication. Romana studied architecture at Graz University of Technology and graduated in 2012 with honors. She holds a Doctor of Sciences degree in Digital Fabrication from ETH Zurich, which she received in 2017. Together with Kathrin Dörfler she runs the architecture collective dorfundrust.