Immersive Legacies: Lunchtime Talk

Throughout Heritage Week, lunchtime talks will be taking place at Wellington Museum with speakers from the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China, T.R. Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey and the Faculty of Architecture & Design, Victoria University of Wellington.

Starting with Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel and Assistant Professor Sky Lo Tian Tian on Tuesday the 29th of October.

Immersive Architectural Legacies – The Construction of Meaning in Speculative Virtual Realities.

Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel.

Faculty of Architecture & Design, Victoria University of Wellington
Marc Aurel will discuss how new realities can be constructed to enrich the experience of and create opportunities in virtual environments. He will introduce the way that Immersive technologies serve as a medium to communicate speculative ideas and engage discussion, transporting a user to a site inaccessible in reality that allows them to generate their socio-cultural authenticity interpreted according to their understanding.

Immersive Participation: Bringing Design to the People.

Assistant Professor Sky Lo Tian Tian.

School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China.

Design is now part of everyday life. People can be involved in design activities such as personalising the UI of their webpage, to the clothing they wear, and even the food they eat and drink such as Starbucks.

One other very personal item is housing. This is an item that is very personal yet also influences the surrounding environment. This talk discusses how an immersive environment can bring about design participation collaboratively among neighbours and still bring about personalised design between them.