A building system of participatory architecture
Cybernetics theory established principles of control and communication between animals and machines almost a century ago. In face of increasing urban challenges, these theories are more relevant than ever in discussing automation and cooperation between humans and machines within the information age.
a light installation at the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) Roving Architecture Exhibition (RAX)
Metrics Cinema
manτεία is a new media performance that examines our relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) in the digital era. Through an immersive audio-visual experience, the performance tests the boundaries of aesthetics in generative neural networks and interrogates our desire to find meanings in algorithmic outputs, where the struggle to produce meaningful experience is evident.
In partnership with HKBU and supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme (ACDFS)
‘Current’
An Expanded Live Cinema
"A 2019 micro-cinema project that speculated on what the future of volumetric broadcasting cinema may look and future like. It collected worldwide headline stories of the same year, and narrated them in a seamless 3-dimensional media environment. 'Current' stands at the convergence of livestream economy, volumetric cinema, AI optimisation, and Personalised Narratives."
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@current.cam
'Volumetric Cinema'
Metaverse Workshop & Community Review
"30 participants from all-walks-of-life were openly invited to co-create five micro-cinema that tell the story of local urban fabrics in Hong Kong using XR and AI tools. A community review was organised to premiere the work and invited local communities to review and discuss the effects and potentials of urban redevelopment. The project was exhibited and supported by UABB 2022."
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@current.cam x @R.E.Ar_
and workshop participants
‘AI in+form’: Bio-inspired Solar Design
CumInCAD Conference Workshop Series
"A series of international workshops on Artificial Intelligence (AI) application in bio-inspired solar architecture design."
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@R.E.Ar_
and workshop participants
'Round-the-Table VR'
VR Roundtable Series
"A series of interdisciplinary roundtables that took place in web-based VR, which invited over 18 institutions, organisations, and businesses from architecture, media, and software industries to discuss the future of decentralised education and phygital exchanges."
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@R.E.Ar_
Volumetric Persona
Extended Reality Workshops
In this workshop, the Current Team speculates with participants possible ways of digitally representing personas in an increasingly 3-dimensional media environment. In particular, emerging trends in omniverse, digital humans, and how such 3D data can be synthesised and automated with the use of neural networks as scalable workflows. A persona is defined as ‘a particular type of character that a person seems to have and that is often different from their real or private character’; in this sense, digital personas may assist users to voluntarily and consciously participate in the virtual world, creating behavioral data via interaction with their 3D environments.
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@current.cam
and students
Collaborative Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Workshops
In this workshop, students were invited to collaborate with synthetic intelligences to engage in speculative design, including training and asking AI with philosophical texts and questions. The narrative co-generated by the AI and the students are then visualised as deepdreams, encapsulated by a time voxel, which was a product of utilising medical imaging softwares to analyse visuals in the AI’s deepest dreams.
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@current.cam
and students
Co-Learning Space
Collective Design Of Learning Spaces Using Immersive Digital Twins And Virtual Reality Technologies
‘Co-learning Space’ is an ongoing project that utilises methods of blended learning and two-way communication between university teachers and students in the design of learning spaces. Through co-design exercises, teachers and students may better understand each other’s needs and visions, while learning to work together in a creative manner, assisted by 3D modelling and virtual reality (VR) technologies.
In the initial phase of the project, the design team worked with educators at CUHK CLEAR to define nine teaching and learning innovation agenda, and showcased current efforts in the field through a series of open-call poster sessions in nine thematic virtual spaces.
Virtual Space Design:
Yuechun LI (CUHKarchitecture)
ChristyHsu, Mavrichev, Ellasuper (Sketchfab)
Pin World, Oculus Classic Home, SM Sith Lord (MozillaHubs)
Virtual Space Curation: Provides Ng (CUHKarchitecture)
A Voxel-based Approach to Intelligent Discrete Aggregation
Dataflow and design process engineering
This research experiment with various generative algorithms to understand how 3-dimensional data structure can be standardised using voxels to translate complex geometries between different software environments. The pipeline is being continuously updated with the latest algorithms and based on collective reflections with workshop participants from institutions worldwide.
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@R.E.Ar_
and workshop participants
21e8: BIM + Blockchain + AI
Blockchain research in collaboration with industry partner 21e8.nz
This research looks at blockchain applications within the architectural industry, collaborating with industry partners to propose data and communication structure models for the integration of BIM, blockchain, and AI. Forming peer-to-peer (p2p) multi-accessible systems that may act as socioeconomic drivers to participatory changes in design production.
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Provides Ng
Control and Communication
history and theory research
Searching through a history of Control and Communication, Cybernetics, Information and Game theories formed the basis to this theoretical study of information economics in architecture.
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Provides Ng