Design at dusk Centenary Edition

13 July, 2018

University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning invites the founders of Design Lab Mary Lou Maher and John Gero to talk about how and why they started the university’s first-ever, Design Lab. They will discuss the early days of the Design Computing degree and the evolution of design research, computer and AI modelling, as well as design cognition and neurocognition.

This event will officially launch the new Design Wing, a collaborative workspace for researchers working in the Design Lab and academics teaching in the Design programs.

Join the event for a tour of the new wing and to hear about the design process behind the lab renovation.

Date and time: Friday 13 July 2018, 3:30pm – 6:00pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 250, Level 2, Wilkinson Building, 148 City Rd, University of Sydney

Please register here

All enquiries can be directed to Martin Tomitsch, (p) +61 2 9351 4610, (e) martin.tomitsch@sydney.edu.au

Program

3.15pm: Guests arrive for 3.30pm start

3.30pm: Mary Lou Maher and John Gero

5pm: Networking drinks and official Design Wing opening

About the speakers:

Mary Lou Maher and John Gero founded the Design Lab, built a team of researchers, and established the Bachelor of Design Computing degree.

Mary Lou Maher is Professor and Chair of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte. Maher graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Civil Engineering and continued on to complete her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. She has held esteemed positions at Universities across the United States, as well as the University of Sydney (1990 – 2011), where she held Professor and Chair of Design Computing position.

Maher is interested in the design and evaluation of innovative digital/physical environments and new media that enhance information systems, creativity and design. Her research draws on and contributes to human-computer interaction, intelligent systems, computer-supported collaborative work, design science, and computational creativity. Some highlights of her recent research are models of surprise as a basis for innovation analytics, gesture and tangible interaction design, crowdsourcing design process models, and strategies for flipped classrooms in CS education.

John Gero is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University. Formerly he was Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, at the University of Sydney.

Gero’s recent research focuses on cognitive and neurocognitive studies of designing and design education, social behaviour in design, computational models of creative design, and visual representation and reasoning.