SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop Cluster Interacting with the City

Flora co-led the SG2011 Workshop Cluster Interacting with the City in SmartGeometry 2011, Copenhagen.

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IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Awards

Flora leads the RMIT team who was awarded the IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Awards for the project "Two Cities as a Living Lab".

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News

  • 8 June 2011 - the multidisciplinary team, with members from computer science, architectural design, textile design, and mechatronics disciplines, was awarded the RMIT Learning and Teaching Investment Fund. This team will run the Augmented Spatiality studio in RMIT in Semester 2, 2011.
  • 27 March - 3rd April 2011 - Flora co-led the SG2011 Workshop Cluster Interacting with Cities in SmartGeometry 2011, Copenhagen. Our exhibited works included multidimensional tangible table prototypes using Kinect and online data sources (Google Maps, Yahoo, Twitter, real-time weather data) for collaborative design and modeling. Read our blog for more info.
  • 5 February 2011 - Flora received a scholarship to attend Apple University Consortium's Cocoa Workshop at Sydney on 16-18 Feb 2011.
  • 6 January 2011 - Flora and Przemek Jaworski will lead Interacting with the City, one of the 10 clusters selected out of 46 proposals, in SmartGeometry 2011 workshop and conference at Copenhagen on 28th March - 2nd April.
  • November 30th 2010 - Flora received the 2010 Ian Permezel Memorial Award from RMIT, conferred by the Vice Chancellor.
  • November 10th-17th 2010 - Transafe project, one of the five finalists of the RMIT 2010 Design Challenge: Crime, was exhibited at Melbourne GPO. The paper and video can be found here.
  • November 7th 2010 - Flora and her team from RMIT won the IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Awards 2010.
  • October 30th 2010 - Flora spoke at the conference on "Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication" at University of Malaga, Spain.
  • October 21st 2010 - Hugo Mulder from Arup London and Flora presented their paper at ACADIA'10 conference.
  • April, 9th, 2010 - Flora was the runner-up for Best Presentation Award in CAADRIA 2010 for 'A System for Form Fostering' paper.

 

Recent Publications

  • Salim, F. D., Mulder, H., Burry, J. R. (2011) Form fostering: A novel design approach for interacting with parametric models in the embodied virtuality, ITcon Vol. 16, Special Issue Use of Gaming Technology in Architecture, Engineering and Construction , pg. 133-148
  • Toth, B., Salim, F., Frazer, J. Drogemuller, R. (2011) Support for Energy-Oriented Design in the Australian Context, Proceedings of Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference 2011: Architecture and Sustainable Development, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 2011.
  • Hamilton, M., Salim, F., Cheng, E., Choy, S.L. “Transafe: A Crowdsourced Mobile Platform for Crime and Safety Perception Management”, ISTAS 2011: IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, May 23-25, 2011. PDF
  • Toth, B., Salim, F., Frazer, J. Drogemuller, R., Burry, J.  (2011). “Closing The Loop Of Design And Analysis”. Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2011, Newcastle, Australia
  • Khoo, C. K, Salim, F. D.  (2011). “Elastic Transformable Structure For Responsive Spatial Model Through Parametric Animation”. Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2011, Newcastle, Australia.
  • Sharaidin, M. K., Salim, F. D.  (2011). “Affordable, Performative, And Responsive: Designing Affordable Responsive Architectural Prototypes Through Physical And Digital Modeling”. Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2011, Newcastle, Australia.
  • Davis, D., Salim, F. D., Burry, J.  (2011). “Designing Responsive Architecture: Mediating Analogue And Digital Modelling In Studio”. Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2011, Newcastle, Australia. PDF
  • Sharaidin, M. K., Salim, F. D.  (2011). “Affordable, Performative and Responsive: Designing Affordable Responsive Architectural Prototypes through Physical and Digital Modelling”. Adaptive Architecture 2011 Conference, London, United Kingdom.
  • Salim, F. D., Mulder, H. M., Jaworski, P., Ransom, J. W., Cutellic, P., Iseki, T., Di Leo, S., Köm, Y. (2010), Collaborative Design and Live Interaction with Parametric Models using UbiMash, International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), vol 8, issue 3, pg. 377-398. PDF
  • Salim, F. D., Mulder, H., Jaworski, P. (2010), 'Demonstration of an Open Platform for Tangible and Social Interactions with Responsive Models', Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2010 Conference - Life in:formation, New York, US, 21-24 October 2010. PDF
  • Salim, F. D., Burry, J., Taniar, D., Lee, V. C., Burrow, A. (2010), 'The Digital Emerging and Converging Bits of Urbanism', eCAADe 28th conference - Future Cities, Zurich, Switzerland, 15-18 September 2010. PDF
  • Salim, F. D. (2010), 'Towards adaptive mobile mashups: opportunities for designing effective persuasive technology on the road', in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINAW'10), IEEE, US. PDF
  • Salim, F. D., Mulder, H., Burry, J., 'A System for Form Fostering: Parametric Modelling of Responsive Forms in Mixed Reality', in Proceedings of the Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2010, Hong Kong, China. (Best Presentation Runner-Up) PDF
  • Fernando, R., Salim, F. D., Burry, J., 'Patterns, Heuristics for Architectural Design Support',  in Proceedings of the Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2010, Hong Kong, China.
  • Salim, F. D., Burry, J. (2010), 'Software openness: evaluating parameters of parametric modelling tools to support creativity and multidisciplinary design integration', in the 2010 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA'2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6018/2010, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 483-497. link