Prof Tuba Kocaturk

My expertise centre upon the creative, generative and collaborative use of information and communication technologies and digital media in Built Environment and in Design. I have taught, conducted research, delivered keynotes/workshops and published extensively (including edited books, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings) in the areas of Intelligent Built Environment, Digital Design Pedagogy, Design-Driven Innovation, and Augmented Digital/Physical Place Making. My work is predominantly practice-based and advocates the use of “design thinking” and “system thinking” as a methodology for knowledge production (in research and education), and “trans-disciplinary thinking” as a strategy for cross-sector innovation (for the industry). I have developed and led various postgraduate research and taught programmes and practice-based design studios exploring the creative, collaborative and innovative adoption of digital and media technologies in architectural and urban design. I am the founding co-director of Resilient Urban Ecosystems (RUE) Research Network and also European Network of Design.

Architectural and Urban Design

Smart Cities and Urban Resilience

Design Cognition and Computation

Spatial Computation and MR in Built Environment

Digital Heritage and Augmented Storytelling

Intelligent Built Environment

Human-Centric Sensing and Ambient Intelligence 

Design Thinking / System Thinking / Transdisciplinarity

Recent Invited Speaker Roles, Keynotes, International Workshops 

(December 2020) Keynote, Annual Conference of Institute of Frontier Materials (IFM), Re-thinking Material Innovation in the Age of Experience.    

(September 2020) Organizer (Moderator), International (Online) Webinar titled: A new Agenda for Innovation where Creativity Meets Science & Business.          

(June 2020) Keynote Speaker, Online Webinar Series organized by IMAGINE, From Designing Things to Designing within/for Systems.                                  

(June 2020) Invited Speaker, Milan Design Week, Panel Discussion on Design, Society and Distance Learning: What Will Survive to What?                            

(2019) Invited Lecture, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Architecture, Wellington, New Zealand                                                                          

(2019) Invited Speaker, DIADEM Annual Design Conference, July 2019, Werribee                                                                                                              

(2019) Invited Speaker, MAV Technology Annual Conference, May 2019, Geelong

(2019) Invited Speaker, Milan Design Week, Worldwide Conference on Sustainable Innovation, at Design in the Age of Experience Event by Dassault Systemes, April 2019, Milan, Italy                                                                                                

(2019) Invited Speaker, UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Geelong City of Design Stakeholder Day, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, March 2019, Geelong

(2019) Invited Speaker, Singapore Design Week, UNESCO Creative Cities Network Public Forum, March 2019, Singapore            

Emerging Models of Transdisciplinarity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=fF5VqgQRR3M 

Current Special Projects:

Circular Economy Design Challenge, Design Competition and workshop series launched in collaboration with IFM, CSIRO, Centre for Supply Chain & Logistics, & Design Institute Australia (interdisciplinary team outputs to be presented at Geelong Design Week 2021).

Recent Funded Projects:

(2021) (In)tangible Heritage of the Greater Geelong: Public City Space as Virtual Museum, Arts Industry Commissions Program 2020, $20,000

(2020-21) Innovation Connections Grant, Application Framework for Graphene Sensing, $150,000 (MInD Lab, Imagine Intelligent Materials)

(2020) Use-Evaluation Study for Q-Mat: Social Distancing through sensing floors in public spaces, CAT2 funding, $6,820

(2019) Industry (Internationally) Funded Research: "A Prototype for a Parametric Modelling System for Railway Construction with VR/AR", $30,000

(2019) Industry Funded Research & Development: "Experiencing (In)tangible Heritage through eXtended Reality (XR)", $22,275

(2018) AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded "Creative Integration of Mixed Reality (MR) into Building Information Management (BIM) Environment" Primary Applicant and Supervisor for the Post-Doc Research Funding,  £52,346

(2017) HEFCE ISCF-PPF (Industrial Strategy Challenges Pump-priming Fund), funded "Digital Place-making: Mediating Urban Space through Mixed and Augmented Reality", Co-Investigator, £24,900.

(2017) INNOVATE UK, Design Foundations Competition award as Design Consultant for "Intelligent, real-time, hyper-local screen-based Urban outdoor advertising", Co-Lead Consultant, £50.000.

Guest Editor, Journal of Architectural Engineering and Design Management, Special Issue on “Intelligent Building Paradigm and Data-Driven Models of Innovation” (scheduled publication date 2019). 

Senior Editor of Internationl Journal of Architectural Computing, publisher: SAGE (since 2014)

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Building Research & Information, publisher Taylor & Francis (since 2018)

Editorial Board Member of Global Epistemics, a transdisciplinary book series established through a partnership between gloknos and Rowman & Littlefield International (since 2019)