Benay Gürsoy

Benay Gürsoy is a PhD candidate in Architectural Design Computing Program at Istanbul Technical University and a fulltime instructor at Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Architecture where she currently teaches Basic Design Studio, Architectural Geometry and Design Computing courses. She received her B. Arch (2007) and M.Arch (2010) degrees from METU Department of Architecture and Program of Architectural Design. Her interests and teaching focuses on cognitive studies of the design process, basic design education, digital fabrication, material tectonics, and computational and generative design methodologies.

 

Iestyn Jowers

Iestyn Jowers is a Research Fellow in the Design Group at Open University, UK. Prior to joining the OU he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Product Development, TU Munich alongside of Kristi Shea. He has also worked as a Research Fellow, at the Institute of Engineering Systems and Design, the University of Leeds, and as a Research Associate, at the Engineering Design Centre, the University of Cambridge. He has a PhD in Computational Design from the Open University, an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics, and a BSc in Mathematics, both from the University of Manchester. He also has a PGCE in Secondary Mathematics from Oxford Brookes University.

 

Mine Özkar

Mine Ozkar is an associate professor of architecture at Istanbul Technical University, where she also serves on the executive committee for the Program in Computational Design. She teaches graduate level design research methods, a computational design studio, several computational theory courses and an undergraduate architectural design studio. She earned her MS in design inquiry and PhD in design and computation from MIT. In some of her previous work, she has interpreted the history and theory of progressive pedagogy in art and design from a computational perspective. Her current research focuses on shape representation for creative computing, visual/spatial computation, and design methods as well as the integration of foundational design education and computational knowledge. She also publishes on the on-going global and local curriculum reforms in architectural education. She recently co-edited a book titled Shaping Design Teaching and was a Visiting Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture Computation Group during Spring term of 2013.

 

George Stiny

Professor George Stiny is a theorist of design and computation and has been on the faculty of MIT Department of Architecture since 1996. Educated at MIT and at UCLA, where he received a PhD in Engineering, Stiny has also taught at the University of Sydney, the Royal College of Art (London), the Open University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. Stiny's particular contribution to the field has been in the invention and refinement of the idea of shape grammars, and his work stands as a critique of the vast majority of existing computer-aided design systems. He is the author of Pictorial and Formal Aspects of Shape and Shape Grammars, Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts with J. Gips, and most recently of Shape: talking about seeing and doing.

http://shapetalkingaboutseeinganddoing.org