Biography
I am Professor of Integral Design and the founding Director of MInD (Mediated Intelligence in Design) Research Lab at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Deakin (http://mindlab.cloud)
I am also the co-Director of Deakin's newly founded DesignMind, Design and Innovation platform (https://designmind.org.au), and representing the University at the UNESCO City of Design Work committe of Geelong.
My research and teaching expertise centre upon the creative, generative and collaborative use of information and communication technologies and digital media in Built Environment research and education. In recent years, I have been exploring the transformational potential of embedding computation, big-data, artificial intelligence, and real-time connectivity into the conception and realisation of buildings/urban spaces for a sustainable built habitat. My research is grounded-in and informed by practice, and involves the development of 'tangible models, tools and methods' with potential to create impact on industry practice, education, community practices and with policy implications.I strongly believe that Built Environment research cannot be separated from industry or education and the three must come together for the benefit and ultimate progress of our discipline.
I have taught, conducted research, delivered keynotes/workshops and published extensively (over 50 publications, 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. 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.
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 implemented various bespoke innovation methods and strategies, as a design consultant, to help companies through their innovation process.
I am the founding co-director of Resilient Urban Eco-Systems Research Group (in collaboration with ARUP, 2016), which brings together the complementary expertise of a highly interdisciplinary group of experts across Intelligent Buildings and Urban Informatics research fields, developing a vision and research agendas for the future.
Another initiative I’m currently co-leading is a pan-European “Transdisciplinary Design Network” (www.design-network.org) in collaboration with Design Council UK, Hochschule Anhalt/DIA Bauhaus in Dessau/Germany, and the European Institute of Design (IED) in Turin/Italy, to initiate and spearhead a leading-edge debate on emerging models of transdisciplinarity with the aim of exploring cross-sector impact pathways in INDUSTRY and EDUCATION.
I am an active member of the international CAAD and architectural computing community which links 4 international/sister organisations across Asia (CADRIA), North/South America (ACADIA, SIGRADI), and Europe (eCAADe), all dedicated to promoting collaborative research and development of computer aided architectural design research and education. And since 2014, I am the Senior Editor of International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), which is committed to deepening the understanding of the foundations of digital systems for Architectural and Urban Design and the technologies enabling their development and application.
Read more on Tuba's profileBiography summary
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.
Knowledge areas
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
Professional activities
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
Media appearances
Emerging Models of Transdisciplinarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=fF5VqgQRR3M
Projects
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)
Publications
Future proofing for hospital building design: from research to practice
S Memari, T Kocaturk, M Lozanovska, F Andrews, R Tucker
(2023), Architectural Engineering and Design Management, C1
A multiple feature fusion framework for video emotion recognition in the wild
N Samadiani, G Huang, W Luo, C Chi, Y Shu, R Wang, T Kocaturk
(2022), Vol. 34, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, C1
The interdisciplinary conceptualization of future proofing in the context of hospital buildings
Sanaz Memari, Tuba Kocaturk, Mirjana Lozanovska, Fiona Andrews, Richard Tucker
(2022), pp. 1-17, Building Research and Information: the international journal of research, development and demonstration, Abingdon, Eng., C1
The nature of innovation in hospital building design: a mixed grounded theory study
A Sal Moslehian, T Kocaturk, F Andrews, R Tucker
(2022), pp. 1-23, Construction innovation, Bingley, Eng., C1
Analysis of Factors Historically Affecting Innovation in Hospital Building Design
Anahita Moslehian, R Tucker, T Kocaturk, F Andrews
(2022), Vol. 15, pp. 249-269, Health Environments Research and Design Journal, London, Eng., C1
Circular economy in the Australian AEC industry: investigation of barriers and enablers
Salman Shooshtarian, M Hosseini, Tuba Kocaturk, Tony Arnel, Nicole T. Garofano
(2022), pp. 1-13, Building Research and Information: the international journal of research, development and demonstration, London, Eng., C1
A Sal Moslehian, R Tucker, T Kocaturk
(2022), Vol. 21, pp. 1-15, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, London, Eng., C1
Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) - Photogrammetry as the Surface for a Portable Museum
Domenico Mazza, Tuba Kocaturk, Sofija Kaljevic
(2022), pp. 677-686, CAADRIA 2022 : Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Architecural Design Research 2022 Conference, Sydney, N.S.W. and Virtual, E1
A Sal Moslehian, T Kocaturk, R Tucker
(2021), Vol. 49, pp. 265-280, Building Research and Information, C1
Discovering Traffic Anomaly Propagation in Urban Space Using Enhanced Traffic Change Peaks
G Huang, T Kocaturk, C Chi
(2021), Vol. 20, pp. 1363-1382, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, C1
R Wang, R Lowe, S Newton, T Kocaturk
(2020), Vol. 113, Automation in Construction, C1
A Novel Video Emotion Recognition System in the Wild Using a Random Forest Classifier
N Samadiani, G Huang, W Luo, Y Shu, R Wang, T Kocaturk
(2020), Vol. 1179, pp. 275-284, ICDS 2019 : Data science : 6th international conference, ICDS 2019, Ningbo, China, May 15-20, 2019, revised selected papers, Ningbo, China, E1
Gulnaz Aksenova, Arto Kiviniemi, Tuba Kocaturk, Albert Lejeune
(2019), Vol. 37, pp. 317-335, Construction management and economics, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Integrating user-behaviour as performance criteria in conceptual parametric design
Leyla Deniz Kiraz, Tuba Kocaturk
(2019), pp. 1-10, CAADRIA 2019 : Intelligent and informed : Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Wellington, N.Z., E1
Towards an intelligent digital ecosystem - sustainable data-driven design futures
Tuba Kocaturk
(2017), pp. 164-178, Future challenges in evaluating and managing sustainable development in the built environment, Chichester, Eng., B1-1
Oppia suomalaisesta BIM-kehitystyöstä
Gulnaz Aksenova, Arto Kiviniemi, Tuba Kocaturk, Albert Lejeune
(2017), pp. 1-12, Rakentajain kalenteri 2018, Malminkatu, Helsinki, B1-1
Gulnaz Aksenova, Arto Kiviniemi, Tuba Kocaturk, Albert Lejeune
(2017), pp. 71-81, Rakentajain kalenteri 2018, Malminkatu, Helsinki, B1-1
A socio-cognitive approach to knowledge construction through blended learning
T Kocaturk
(2017), Vol. 5, pp. 1-21, Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, Aalborg, Denmark, C1-1
[Re]searching [im]probable, [im]possible and [un]desirable design futures
Tuba Kocaturk, M Biggs, R Koeck
(2015), pp. 132-134, Perspectives on Architectural Design Research, Baunach, Germany, B1-1
Exploiting BIM in energy efficient domestic retrofit: evaluation of benefits and barriers
E Gholami, Arto Kiviniemi, Tuba Kocaturk, S Sharples
(2015), ICCBEI 2015 : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, E1-1
Deceptive landscape installation: algorithmic patterning strategies for a small pavilion
Asterios Agkathidis, Tuba Kocaturk
(2014), Vol. 2, pp. 71-79, FUSION : Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng., E1-1
Emerging socio-technical networks of innovation in architectural practice
Tuba Kocaturk
(2013), Vol. 11, pp. 21-36, International journal of architectural computing, London, Eng., C1-1
Hybrid architecture: coupling structural understanding and architectural education
R Balbo, Tuba Kocaturk, A Veliz
(2013), pp. 1191-1197, ICSA 2013 : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Guimaraes, Portugal, E1-1
Challenges of Integrating BIM in architectural education
Tuba Kocaturk, Arto Kiviniemi
(2013), Vol. 2, pp. 465-474, eCAADe 2013 : Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, E1-1
Exploiting BIM in energy efficient refurbishment: a paradigm of future opportunities
Elaheh Gholami, Stephen Sharples, Sepehr Abrishami, Tuba Kocaturk
(2013), pp. 1-6, PLEA2013: Sustainable architecture for a renewable future : Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Passive and Low Architecture 2013, Munich, Germany, E1-1
Dialogs between physical and digital modelling methods on architectural design
Alejandro Veliz, Tuba Kocaturk, Benachir Medjdoub, Riccardo Balbo
(2012), Vol. 2, pp. 281-289, eCAADE 2012 : Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference : Physical Digitality, Prague, Czech Republic, E1-1
Tuba Kocaturk, Riccardo Balbo, Benachir Medjdoub, Alejandro Veliz
(2012), pp. 55-65, ECAADE 2012, VOL 1, Czech Tech Univ, Fac Architecture, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, E1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Experiencing (In) tangible Heritage through eXtended reality (XR).
Prof Tuba Kocaturk
City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants
- 2019: $20,250
Application Framework for Graphene Sensing Technology
Prof Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Rui Wang
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
- 2021: $25,000
- 2020: $25,000
(In)tangible Heritage of the Greater Geelong: Public City Space as Virtual Museum
Prof Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Sofija Kaljevic, Dr Domenico Mazza
City of Greater Geelong
- 2021: $20,000
Industry and Other Funding
A Prototype of Railway Traffic Construction BIM Parametric Modelling System with VR/AR Extension (TBV)
Dr Rui Wang, Dr Jun Wang, Prof Tuba Kocaturk
Shanghai Langjia Traffic Environment Technology Co Ltd
- 2019: $30,000
Application Framework for Graphene Sensing Technology
Prof Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Rui Wang
Imagine Intelligent Materials Ltd
- 2020: $75,000
A Spatially Intelligent Arts Centre.
Prof Tuba Kocaturk, Prof Stefan Greuter, Dr Rui Wang
The Trustee for Geelong Performing Arts Centre Trust
- 2022: $155,000
- 2021: $75,000
Supervisions
Anahita Sal Moslehian
Thesis entitled: A Grounded Theory of Design Innovation in Hospital Design
Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture and Built Environment), School of Architecture and Built Environment