We are pleased to announce that the first Digital Architecture Research Centre (DARC) Open Lecture of the academic year will be given by Dr Dietmar Köring with his lecture titled, ‘Computational design, digital participation and deterritorialisation’ on Tuesday 6 October at 18.00 BST. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, all open lectures will be held online via Microsoft Teams, please use this link to join.
Dietmar Köring is an architect, researcher, and educator living in Cologne. He is is head of the architectural research office Arphenotype, where he focuses on blurring the boundaries of different artistic disciplines. Dietmar was a research fellow at TU Berlin / CHORA City & Energy from 2012 to 2017 and has taught Digital Design at TU Braunschweig from 2010 to 2012, he was Guest Professor for Virtual Realities & Experimental Architecture at the University Innsbruck ./Studio3 in 2011, Technology and Design Lecturer at the Cologne Institute for Architectural Design / C-I-A-D and visiting lecturer for digital design at the DeMontfort University Leicester. From 2011 to 2012 he was assistant professor for Smart City Concepts at the Technical University Cologne.
He studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, the University of Western Sydney and at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, were he graduated as in 2005 as Dipl.-Ing. (FH). Dietmar received his MArch in 2007 at the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London and his Dr.-Ing. at the Technical University of Berlin in 2018.
Through his career he has worked internationally for offices such as Coop Himmelblau, Graft, 3deluxe and Andrew Wright Associates. His research has been awarded by the Jaap Bakema Fellowship / NAI and his works have been internationally published and exhibited. Dietmar has given international lectures, guest critiques and workshops.
Dr Dietmar Köring’s lecture will discuss algorithmic governmentality and how our co-existence with machines transpires.
Please use this link to join the open lecture via MS Teams on Tuesday 6 October at 18.00 BST, all welcome.