UCL. Research Cluster 3, Architectural Design M.Arch (Lecturer 2011-2017)

From 2011 to 2017, I led a Research Cluster within The Bartlett’s Master’s in Architectural Design (MArch AD), focusing on the emerging intersections between architecture, robotics, and interactive systems. The cluster operated as a design-research studio, blending speculative design with hands-on experimentation in computation, kinetics, and responsive environments. Students were encouraged to prototype and perform their ideas at full scale, developing installations that explored how buildings and machines could sense, learn, and adapt. Each year the cluster evolved its theme—from adaptive architecture and robotic fabrication to performative ecologies—reflecting rapid technological and cultural shifts. It became a formative space for cultivating new modes of practice where architecture was treated as a behavioural system rather than a static object. Many of its alumni have gone on to establish significant international practices in interactive design, demonstrating how architectural education can lead innovation through collaboration and open experimentation.

Over the 6 years, I had the great pleasure and privilege of teaching design alongside Prof Stephen Gage, Dr Ollie Palmer, Dr Chris Leung. William Bondin, Francois Mangion, Vincent Hughe, Jessica In, and Yuri Suzuki. In many ways RC3 was the main prototype for the Masters in Design for Performance and Interaction programme that I founded and directed from 2017.