Round Table Event
FRIDAY 17th of January 2014 16:30-18:00
Manchester School of Architecture, Chatham Building. Open for public
Professor Michael Weinstock
Michael Weinstock is an Architect, currently Director of Research and Development, and Director of theEmergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to buildings. See for example The architecture of emergence: the evolution of form in nature and civilisation (Wiley, London, 2010). Whilst his principal research and teaching has been conducted at the Architectural Association, he has published and lectured widely, and taught seminar courses, studios and workshops on these topics at many other schools of Architecture in Europe, including Brighton, Delft, Rome, Barcelona, Vienna and in Stuttgart; and in the US at Yale and Rice. He has made a significant contribution to the theoretical discourses of architecture, to the pedagogies of the discipline, and on practice. He has been a leader in bringing awareness and understanding of natural systems and the historical and current impacts of complexity, climatic and ecological changes on human architectures, and of the natural and human dynamics that are currently driving changes in all the systems of nature and civilisation.
Professor Michael Batty
Michael Batty is, by training, an architect-planner and geographer. He is currently Bartlett Professor of Planning (Emeritus) at University College London where he is Chairman of the Management Board of CASA. His research work involves the development of computer models of cities and regions, and he has published many books and articles in this area. His book Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005) won the Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2010. His most recent books are The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, Cambridge. MA, 2013) and the edited volumes Virtual Geographic Environments (ESRI Press, Redlands, CA, 2011) and Agent Based Models of Geographical Systems (Springer, Berlin, 2012). He is editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. The work of his group can be seen on the CASA web sitehttp://www.casa.ucl.uk/ and in his blogs http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/ and http://www.complexcity.info/
Professor Gert de Roo
Gert de Roo is full professor in Physical Planning, Head of Department of the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen and President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). He is also one of the founding fathers of AESOP's thematic group on Complexity & Planning.
His main interest are decision theory and management science concenring interventions within the physical environment. He has developed various desicion making models among others inspired on concepts derived from Complexity Science. AMongst his resent books are Fuzzy Planning, the role of actors in a fuzzy governance environment (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007), A Planners' Encounter with Complexity (together with Silva, Ashgate, Farnham, 2010), Planning & Complexity: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (together with Hillier & Van Wezemael, Ashgate, Farnham, 2012).