Human-centric building design
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In the last post I talked about my trip across to Pittsburgh and the day before the Encoding Experience Summit started properly. The summit kicked off in the gorgeous Singleton Room in Roberts Hall. The facilities at CMU are really first rate. The discussions started the evening before continued with barely a pause. Katherine Flanigan, head of the SALUS Lab at CMU, kicked things off. She and her team did an absolutely incredible job of preparing the event. The morning session was spent building "nutrition labels" for different experiential scenarios. A fresh and incredibly compelling approach for capturing cross-disciplinary thoughts…
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On Tuesday morning I took the train to Geneva well before the sun was up. I flew from Geneva to Washington Dulles, on my way to Pittsburgh. Interestingly I didn't need to get on the fun bus system in Dulles airport, but I did get a nice view of one. Our group was all staying in the Courtyard by Marriott at the University Center in Pittsburgh. Dagmara and I had arrived a day early in case our help was needed with the Encoding Experience Summit we were in town for. This actually meant we had time to tour the Carnegie…
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After a great few days in Dublin with the Enlivened Design team, on Thursday night I flew to Zurich. These days I generally fly from Zurich as a) there are more flight options, b) the train to get there - while longer than to Geneva - is often more direct and c) the trains back home tend to run later. (Living near Neuchatel I can actually fly from Geneva, Basel, Bern or Zurich; depending on the destination these other options sometimes make sense.) When I'd booked the flights to Dublin earlier in the year, Zurich was the most sensible choice.…
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This week was our annual Enlivened Design team offsite. This year we decided to meet in the fine city of Dublin., On Monday I flew across from Zurich to Dublin. After checking in to the hotel some of us headed into the city. I took this photo as the statue reminded me of Daisy. We tried a few different restaurants before finding one that could accommodate 8 people at short notice. We ended up at Daata, one of the best looking South Asian restaurants I've ever been in. It was great to catch up with folks. The food was good,…
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This week a new video dropped on YouTube highlighting my team's work and how we're working with University College London to drive forward our research. Something implied in the video is that we're at the point where we're looking for research collaborations that would allow us to test out specific usage scenarios for our technology. If you're interested in assessing the human experience of architectural or urban designs using embodied agentic AI, do get in touch!
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After a great start to this year's Autodesk University in Las Vegas, day 2 kicked off well, too. I had a bit of a brainwave in the Expo: rather than taking the photo from the front, I took it from the back and the selfie camera automatically flipped it. Neat! After scoping it out during the Day 1 keynote, I went early to a great spot near the puppy park to watch the Day 2 keynote. One segment of great interest was the Autodesk Operations Solutions update by Steve Hooper.I was particularly curious about the work being done to integrate…
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On Sunday I started the journey across to Las Vegas for this year's Autodesk University. I took the train to Zurich and flew from there to San Francisco: it was actually pretty cool flying via SF for AU, as there were several Autodesk and Autodesk-adjacent folks taking the same flight. Arriving in Las Vegas internationally is usually very smooth, but now that SFO has MPC (a real godsend, if ever there was one) but Vegas hasn't, it was actually better to come via SF (at least in terms of the options available to me - there's no direct flight into…
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The summer lull is definitely now over, as we're just a few weeks from Autodesk University 2026 and our preparation is kicking into high gear. As mentioned last time our class is recorded, but things are progressing elsewhere, too: invitations have gone out for our Tuesday afternoon event (we're already half-full with the existing RSVPs) and the last spots for the Braindate just prior to it have now been filled. On the lead-up to AU, expect to see a number of articles and blog posts show up about my team's work. The first went live this week on the Autodesk…
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My session for AU2026 has been recorded! I hope that some of you will come along to the live session in Las Vegas, or otherwise watch it via the AU digital experience. You can register for the in-person session here.
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If you're interested in designing for human experience, neuroarchitecture or other well-being related design fields, the Enlivened Design team would love to meet with you at Autodesk University 2026! (I've posted a quick video summarising some of the below information on LinkedIn.) We currently have three activities planned - although this may expand as we get nearer the event. 1. A Braindate to discuss "The Role of Design Technology in Enhancing Human Experience". Tuesday September 15th at 1pm. Braindates are new to this AU: there will be a special area in the Expo for semi-formal (informal but planned somewhat in…