Toronto Wearables Meetup 17


Toronto Wearables Meetup Details

 
DateThursday, November 22, 2012 - 12:00am to 2:00am

Location

OCAD U, 205 Richmond, St. W., Room 7301

David Cecchetto, OCAD University
David Cecchetto is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University. He has published a number of chapters and articles, co-edited a collection, and has a monograph titled Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism forthcoming in 2013 with the University of Minnesota Press. David completed his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cultural, Social, and Political theory at the University of Victoria, where his dissertation garnered both the University's and Canada's top honours. As an artist working with sound, he has presented work internationally.

Carol Moukheiber and Christos Marcopoulos, U of T RAD Lab

Carol Moukheiber is Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She is also co-founder and partner in the architecture practice Studio NMinusOne (n-1). She has previously worked in the offices of SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, San Francisco, New York, and Bruce Mau Design, Toronto. At the domestic scale, her work has focused on the home as an immersive environment – one capable of generating new physical and emotional experiences -- through the enhancement or recalibration of its infrastructure, or set of programs. She is the co-editor of Wild Wild Urbanism, Redesigning California [CCA 2006], and co-author of The Living, Breathing, Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future [Thames & Hudson]. Her design work has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and published widely in academic and mainstream media including Praxis Journal of Architecture, Domus, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant providing support for the newly launched RAD, Responsive Architecture at Daniels laboratory. Studio NMinusOne has been selected by the New York Architectural League for their Emerging Voices lecture series, 2012.

Christos Marcopoulos is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. He is also co-founder and partner in the architecture practice Studio NMinusOne (n-1).  Christos has extensive professional working experience having worked in the offices of OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, led by Rem Koolhaas, and SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, San Francisco. His technical expertise has been instrumental in the development of Studio NMinusOne’s projects. His work on the domestic environment has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the co-editor of Wild Wild Urbanism, Redesigning California [CCA 2006], and co-author of The Living, Breathing, Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future [Thames & Hudson]. His built work has been published widely in academic and mainstream media including Praxis Journal of Architecture, Domus, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Studio NMinusOne has been selected by the New York Architectural League for their Emerging Voices lecture series, 2012.

DateThursday, November 22, 2012 - 12:00am to 2:00am

Website Location

OCAD U, 205 Richmond, St. W., Room 7301

Wearable Sample
Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 12:00am to 2:00am

David Cecchetto, OCAD University
David Cecchetto is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University. He has published a number of chapters and articles, co-edited a collection, and has a monograph titled Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism forthcoming in 2013 with the University of Minnesota Press. David completed his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cultural, Social, and Political theory at the University of Victoria, where his dissertation garnered both the University's and Canada's top honours. As an artist working with sound, he has presented work internationally.

Carol Moukheiber and Christos Marcopoulos, U of T RAD Lab

Carol Moukheiber is Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She is also co-founder and partner in the architecture practice Studio NMinusOne (n-1). She has previously worked in the offices of SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, San Francisco, New York, and Bruce Mau Design, Toronto. At the domestic scale, her work has focused on the home as an immersive environment – one capable of generating new physical and emotional experiences -- through the enhancement or recalibration of its infrastructure, or set of programs. She is the co-editor of Wild Wild Urbanism, Redesigning California [CCA 2006], and co-author of The Living, Breathing, Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future [Thames & Hudson]. Her design work has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and published widely in academic and mainstream media including Praxis Journal of Architecture, Domus, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant providing support for the newly launched RAD, Responsive Architecture at Daniels laboratory. Studio NMinusOne has been selected by the New York Architectural League for their Emerging Voices lecture series, 2012.

Christos Marcopoulos is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. He is also co-founder and partner in the architecture practice Studio NMinusOne (n-1).  Christos has extensive professional working experience having worked in the offices of OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, led by Rem Koolhaas, and SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, San Francisco. His technical expertise has been instrumental in the development of Studio NMinusOne’s projects. His work on the domestic environment has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the co-editor of Wild Wild Urbanism, Redesigning California [CCA 2006], and co-author of The Living, Breathing, Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future [Thames & Hudson]. His built work has been published widely in academic and mainstream media including Praxis Journal of Architecture, Domus, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Studio NMinusOne has been selected by the New York Architectural League for their Emerging Voices lecture series, 2012.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U, 205 Richmond, St. W., Room 7301
Keywords: 
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