Biographies

Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)

Hélène Aarts is working as a visual artist and assistant professor in drawing at the faculty of The Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). She also developed new drawing curricula for the faculty of ‘Industrial Design’ at TUE and before she was assistant professor at the faculty of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology. In drawing classes, in recent papers and in lectures she focuses on idea generation, experiencing space and research by drawing.

Menatalla Ahmed Agha (Menna Agha) is a trained architect and a scholar. She holds a bachelor in architecture and a master’s in design. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp. Menna is a third generation displaced Nubian which largely informed her research interest. Her research deals with issues of involuntary resettlement from a spatial perspective, with a special focus on Nubian displacement. Ms. Agha has work experience in field of academia, development and architecture practice. She was a lecturer at the German University in Cairo, in addition to collaborating on several projects with development agencies.

Elsa Bouillot is an architect fascinated by the questions of reusing construction materials. She is now taking part in «Plateforme des Acteurs pour le Réemploi des Éléments de Construction à Bruxelles».

Dewi Brunet is a trained urban planner and now an artist specialized in folding. He is passionate about the connections between origami, design, mathematics, botany, fashion and architecture.

Dennis is an experienced design engineer and product developer with a passion for Design Thinking, Mechanical Engineering, Service Design and creative thinking. He has worked as a technical advisor for a rotational moulding company and as a design/project engineer for Jan De Nul. Currently he is starting his own company in mobile market research because he felt that there aren’t enough accessible tools for validating certain design decisions during an innovation/design project.

Roland Fuhrmann is a German artist. Born in Dresden 1966 he studied fine art at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle/Germany and at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. Since 1998 he is living in Berlin and works in the field of public art, kinetic object, photo and video. His permanent works stay in Berlin, Dresden, Potsdam, Halle, Minden, Goch and Warsaw/PL. He even exposed in several museums and galleries in Germany and abroad. During the last years he held lectures and workshops at Antwerp Design Seminar & Lectures, University of Antwerp; École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel; Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle; 5th International Congress on Construction History in Chicago; Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus...

www.rolandfuhrmann.de

balloon architects

Andreas Gratl, born 1969 in Austria, is an architect and civil engineer and studied architecture at Graz University of Technology (A). After some work experience (key qualifications: concept design, urban design and planning) at several offices like Arch. Richard Gratl, Arch. Raimund Rainer, Arch. Heinz Mathoi-Streli and Arch. Szyszkowitz-Kowalsky he founded balloon architects with Iris Rampula and Johannes Wohofsky in 2003. From 2005-2013 he worked as lecturer at Graz University of Technology (Institute of Housing, Institute of Spatial Design). He is member in the Federal Chamber of Architects and Engineering and since 2015 chairman at the HDA (House of Architecture Graz).

www.balloon-rgw.at
www.hda-graz.at

NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Faculty of Architecture and Design. Department of Architecture and Technology. TRANSark. Making is Thinking.

Johanna Gullberg is an architect. After studying architectural history at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the University of Warwick, England, she wanted to combine historiography with practice, and in 2005 she graduated as an architect from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. After working at several architectural firms, she made an artistic research project comprising interpretations of architectural history at the Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy, and then moved on to becoming a lecturer and researcher at Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden. Gullberg is currently a PhD candidate at the NTNU. Her research revolves around case studies within the educational milieu Making is Thinking, which aims to challenge architectural design habits by offering courses and workshops that enable experiences of hands-on making and performative actions.

NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Faculty of Architecture and Design. Department of Architecture and Technology. TRANSark. Making is Thinking.

Nina Haarsaker graduated as architect from NTNU in 2001, after philosophy studies and architecture studies in Madrid, Delft and Lund. Her professional experience is from local office Arkiplan AS, and with partner in TiPi Architecture: the last project seen at http://aarstidshus.blogspot.no. Since 2002 she has been working part-time as assistance professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, NTNU teaching both basic and master courses. Nina has been course Coordinator for first year students at the Master program in Architecture since 2013, with focus on materials and tectonics. She is currently in charge of cross-disciplinary idea-generating course “Experts in Team- Making is Thinking”, and the last semester of diploma master students of Architecture at NTNU.

Schenk Hattori Architecture Atelier

Daisuke Hattori is born in Japan and studied at the Keio University in Tokyo and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (CH). He has been working for Sleth Architects in Arhus (DK), Eric Lapierre Experience in Paris (FR) and Clavien Rossier Architectes in Geneva (CH). He has been conducting a research studio at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Rotterdam.

Currently he is living an working in Tokyo as a co-founder of Japanese Belgian Schenk Hattori Architecture Atelier, an architecture practice that is actively and consciously enganging architecture in both east and west.

Graz University of Technology

Franziska Hederer, born 1972 in Austria, studied architecture in Graz (A) and Delft (NL) and is Associate Professor at the Institute of Spatial Design at Graz University of Technology. With her study On the Oscillating Boundaries of Architecture she received the venia docendi for Spatial Perception and Experimental Design in 2015. Her research and teaching focuses on the exploration of artistic practices, especially the performing arts, as tools for spatial perception and for sensitizing our understanding of space. Teaching activities at KTH-Stockholm, TU-Liverpool and University of Applied Arts / Vienna.

She also realizes performances in public space and serves as the coordinator of the architecture program at FORUM STADTPARK Graz.

http://www.raumgestaltung.tugraz.at
http://www.theoperativespace.com
http://forumstadtpark.at

Delft University of Technology

Industrial designer JanWillem Hoftijzer (MSc) worked for several design agencies in the Netherlands. Today, he teaches and manages design drawing education and staff at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology.

JanWillem believes that sketching is a crucial competence for all designers, even more so for design students. Citing John Ruskin (1856): “the discipline of drawing tunes the sensitivity of the drawer to a higher pitch, it refines the drawer’s vision”, he believes you need draw to be able to see. Next to his job that concerns the design drawing discipline, JanWillem works part-time on his PhD research project called ’Designing for Do-It-Yourself’. 

With a background in architecture, Hannes has progressively expanded his creative and theoretical boundaries as an artist. Primarily active as a maker and videographer, he continuously observes his surroundings and the subconscious ethology. His films illustrate a search for what has become of the urban landscape, where culture has become blind to its habits and environment. His installations and artworks aim to inconvenience the interaction between humans and their daily objects to further question their habits.
With an abundance of interests and skills, such as speculative design, architectural acupuncture, hacking, moulding, woodwork and audio-visual arts, he conveys his concerns about a society that has lost its self-awareness. His works and theoretical writings have earned him to win e.g. the Henry van de Velde Prize 2015 and a number of publications for an unconventional approach towards architecture and beyond.

Julien Ineichen is co-founder of En Commun, an association of practitioners who aim to provoke the citizen engagement in the fabric of the city.
He spent the last 10 years in Recife looking for one dream: swimming back in the Capibaribe, the main river of this tropical city which is nowadays an open sewer.
He focuses his work on collaborative conception and bases his practice on urban prototyping to implement trans-disciplinary projects.

More information about the thesis of Julien can be found here.

Aerocircular - R&D Director

Stein holds a Master of Science Degree in Materials Science. He has over 14 years experience in the aerospace sector. After first working experiences in the Quality Assurance field, Stein moved to the aircraft structural design community, i.e. as a Research & Innovation responsible for the international ASCO Group. He is visiting professor at K.U.Leuven teaching Aircraft Materials and involved in numerous regional and international aerospace and innovation working groups. He is also a registered expert for the European Commission.

KOSMOS Architects

Artem Kitaev is a partner of KOSMOS Architects, a virtual architectural office, collaborating between Moscow, Basel, New York and Bangkok.

Key competitions, awards etc.

• Nomination Swiss Art Awards 2017.
• NIKE Sport Center, Moscow, 1 prize. Under construction.
• H.C. Andersen Museum, Denmark, 1 prize.
• Street Architecture Competition, New York, 1 prize (collaboration with ‘Foam’)
• Skolkovo innovation district. Winners of 1st phase.
• Queensway Competition, New York, 2 prize.
• Airport Interior, Yekaterinburg, 1 prize.
• Curators of exhibition Forum Basel in Swiss Architecture Museum (collaboration with ‘Plan Comun’ and Andreas Ruby)
• Columbia GSAPP Incubator participants

Key built works:

• Pavilion for Garage Art Museum. Prize “Best building in wood”
• EMA: renovation of an ex-factory into an arts center.
• Exhibition “Hosting the Inhuman” in MMOMA.
• “Thread”: wall that unites. Pavilion in Hungary

Professional experience: OMA New York, Herzog de Meuron Basel (4,5 years).

Teaching experience:

• AA Visiting School Moscow, workshop leaders.
• Moscow Architecture Institute, professor assistant.
• Hello Wood workshop, Hungary, workshop leaders.
• Chulalongkorn University INDA, Bangkok, adjunct professors, leaders of design studio.

Dianjen Lin is a London-based interdisciplinary designer with the academic rigour of a researcher, the analytical rationality of a scientist and the aesthetic sensitivity of an artist.
With over 6 years of professional experience, she has worked across system design, research, speculative design, costume/fashion/graphic design, filmmaking, photography, contemporary art curation, and silver metalwork. The broad skill set has equipped her with unconventional intelligence and an aptitude for creative communication and innovative thinking.
With an innate awareness of the symbiosis between humanity and nature, she believes that design should always be drenched in sustainability and dignity, which has led to her success in winning the Kering Award 2017 of Sustainability Innovation for Stella McCartney. Her design trajectory has thus been focusing on ameliorating the status quo by active engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Link to UAntwerp page

Louis Mejean is an architect who graduated from the ENSA-Marseille in 2011. His involvement in the office bauA (Marseille) led him to participate in different projects and competitions including for public equipments. Enriched by this experience, he started to work as an independent. His curiosity led him to diversify his activities, as working on mountain environment, collaborating on international projects and workshops or taking part in architectural competitions. Engaged in a research process to rethink his profession as an architect, participatory approaches and social dimensions of architecture became the core of his activity through the association En Commun in Lausanne (Switzerland) where he is now established.

Isaiah is an architectural and urban designer. He has worked for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Kengo Kuma, and OMA NY. At OMA, Isaiah was a leading designer on a winning proposal for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development titled Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge: A Comprehensive Strategy for Hoboken. Isaiah is currently a senior designer at SOM NY and a licensed city planner. Isaiah holds an MUP from Harvard and MArch from Yale.

Together as co-founders of the Open, Isaiah Miller and Henry Ng have worked with NYC Planning and the Office of Emergency Management to develop the 2015 publication NYC’s Risk Landscape: A guide to Hazard Mitigation, and on a proposal for a new Supreme Court Building for the Philippines.

Barcelona City Council - Councillor Architecture, Urban Landscape and Heritage / Chair of the Commission for Ecology, Urban Planning and Mobility

(Lleida, 1972) Councillor for Architecture, Urban Landscape and Heritage at Barcelona City Council and the Chair of the Commission for Ecology, Urban Planning and Mobility. Graduate in architecture and urban planning from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Lecturer at the Barcelona School of Architecture's Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Organisation since 1998. Author of various architectural, urban-planning and public-space projects in Barcelona, which notably include the new layout for Plaça de les Glòries, the Guineueta and Encants markets and the urban redevelopment of the Selva de Mar area. He has combined his professional activities with teaching at an international level. Author of various publications dealing with Barcelona, including: La Diagonal, un procés urbà: el projecte urbà en la reforma de la ciutat and Glòries, reforma urbana i espai públic. In 2014 he was chosen among 42 up-and-coming architects worldwide and for the ArchMarathon Awards for his project: The refurbishment and extension of the Mercat de la Guineueta in Barcelona.

Henry Ng is a designer and researcher based in NYC. He has worked for AMO, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and WorkAC in NYC. His work has been published in Architectural Record, Volume, Hunch, and Pidgin Magazine, and has been exhibited at the IABR Rotterdam. Henry currently works at Foster and Partners where he is a lead designer on a large scale development in Brooklyn that tackles post-Sandy waterfront regulation and is expected to be the largest mass timber building in the country. Henry holds a BA and MArch from Yale.

Together as co-founders of the Open, Henry Ng and Isaiah Miller have worked with NYC Planning and the Office of Emergency Management to develop the 2015 publication NYC’s Risk Landscape: A guide to Hazard Mitigation, and on a proposal for a new Supreme Court Building for the Philippines.

Pati Núñez Agency

(Barcelona, 1976) Journalist, Curator and PR Consultant. She is the Director of Open House Madrid festival of architecture and CEO of PR Agency and Intelligence Analysis Consultancy Cultural Affairs Bureau. She co-curated the exhibition "The Legacy of Coderch" and has produced some art and architecture films. Recently Pati Núñez has published the book Remembering Coderch. Pati Núñez acts as writer and cultural critic in several publications. She also teaches courses about strategy, communication and architecture.

Pati Núñez began her career as a communication consultant working with cultural institutions such as "laCaixa" Foundation or the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. Pati Núñez has worked with prestigious architects and artists and cultural institutions.

Colapso Studio

Colapso Studio is a design practice open to all kind of creative projects, but mostly focused on the design of spaces, either permanent or ephemeral, and objects.
The studio has a team that mutates depending on the needs of each project. We believe that a multidisciplinary approach enriches the results; we understand design as an experience and believe that the result should be nice and simple.

Founded by Susana Piquer, she graduated as a Technical Architect and complemented her studies with a Post Graduate Degree in Interior Design and a Master’s Degree in Art Direction. After working with artists and creative agencies she founded Colapso Studio on 2014, and since then she combines projects with teaching in different Design Schools.

Truwant + Rodet

Truwant + Rodet is an office based in Basel (Switzerland), active in architecture, urban research, territorial visions and design. It was founded in 2013 by Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet. In addition to this activity, they each hold an assistant position at EPFL. Dries Rodet taught as an assistant from 2011 till 2013 for the studio of Jeannette Kuo at the EPFL in Lausanne, and collaborated on the publication "the A-typical Plan". Since 2013 he is part of the studio FORM led by Kersten Geers. Truwant + Rodet won in 2017 the Swiss Art Award.

NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Faculty of Architecture and Design. Department of Architecture and Technology. TRANSark. Making is Thinking.

Gro Rødne is an architect and an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, NTNU. Since 2015, she has been the project manager of TRANSark: www.ntnu.edu/transark. She graduated in 1993 as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture at NTH, and continued at the Academy of Fine Arts. Gro was one of three founders of Agraff Architects (www.agraff.no), and has been a working partner, chair and member of the board (2001-2016). Gro has been course Coordinator for the first year of the Master program in Architecture during six years and has been the initiator and coordinator of the master course Making is Thinking. She is developing the pilot “Making is Thinking” as a part of TRANSark, including an experimental learning lab.

http://makingisthinking.net

Link to UAntwerp page

KOSMOS Architects

Leonid Slonimskiy is a partner of KOSMOS Architects, a virtual architectural office, collaborating between Moscow, Basel, New York and Bangkok.

Key competitions, awards etc.

• Nomination Swiss Art Awards 2017.
• NIKE Sport Center, Moscow, 1 prize. Under construction.
• H.C. Andersen Museum, Denmark, 1 prize.
• Street Architecture Competition, New York, 1 prize (collaboration with ‘Foam’)
• Skolkovo innovation district. Winners of 1st phase.
• Queensway Competition, New York, 2 prize.
• Airport Interior, Yekaterinburg, 1 prize.
• Curators of exhibition Forum Basel in Swiss Architecture Museum (collaboration with ‘Plan Comun’ and Andreas Ruby)
• Columbia GSAPP Incubator participants

Key built works:

• Pavilion for Garage Art Museum. Prize “Best building in wood”
• EMA: renovation of an ex-factory into an arts center.
• Exhibition “Hosting the Inhuman” in MMOMA.
• “Thread”: wall that unites. Pavilion in Hungary

Professional experience: OMA New York, Herzog de Meuron Basel (4,5 years).

Teaching experience:

• AA Visiting School Moscow, workshop leaders.
• Moscow Architecture Institute, professor assistant.
• Hello Wood workshop, Hungary, workshop leaders.
• Chulalongkorn University INDA, Bangkok, adjunct professors, leaders of design studio.

Sergison Bates architects / London Metropolitan University

Angel Solanellas Terés is an architect and researcher based in London.
Graduated in 2011 and master in Theory and Practice in Architectonic Design in 2013 both at ETSAB, UPC. He has been involved in different research groups in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and he is currently developing his PhD Thesis at CERCLE Research group. In his professional roll he collaborated three years with Ramon Sanabria Arquitectes Associats in Barcelona developing middle and big size public facilities. Angel joined Sergison Bates architects in 2016, where he works in the development of housing projects in Antwerp, Munich and other European cities. Angel combines research and professional work with teaching experience being Associate Professor in design at ETSAB during the period 2013-2015, Assisting professor of Stephen Bates at ESTAB in 2016 and currently collaborating with Stephen Taylor at the London MET.

Bailleul Design Office

Design & teaching, inspiring & stimulating. This thread runs through the working life of Jelke Stoop (1976). She studied Product Development in Antwerp, and for 15 years worked as a lecturer and freelance designer. In 2015 she became a manager at the Bailleul Design Office in Ghent, a team of 12 experts in creative communication.

In her designs, Jelke Stoop puts people first. As a student too – her graduation project was on interactive spectacles for the visually impaired. At Bailleul, her projects looks for a response to this challenge. Designs for private companies or public bodies, for tourism, culture or marketing, for young or old, begin and end with people: target group, clients, colleagues. Making stories together that move people, stick in their minds: this is the beauty of the craft.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Anne Britt Torkildsby has a background in industrial design from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden, holds a PhD in design from The Swedish School of Textiles, and is now associate professor/senior researcher at The Norwegian Laboratory of Universal Design, part of the biggest university in Norway, i.e. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Her research interests are in the areas of critical design thinking applied in universal design settings (design methodology) as well as universal design in general. At the laboratory, all matters related to vision, hearing and mobility with regard to buildings, outdoor areas, transport and design are studied. The findings furthermore contribute to the knowledge on universal design – hence how to make sure the physical world of tomorrow is a better place to be than the physical world of today!

https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/anne.torkildsby
http://www.ntnu.edu/ivb/norwegian-research-laboratory-for-univeral-design

Truwant + Rodet

Truwant + Rodet is an office based in Basel (Switzerland), active in architecture, urban research, territorial visions and design. It was founded in 2013 by Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet. In addition to this activity, they each hold an assistant position at EPFL. Charlotte Truwant has joined in 2014 the academic chair of Prof. Harry Gugger at LABA. She is researching on spatial representation, environmental aesthetics and contextualism. Truwant + Rodet won in 2017 the Swiss Art Award.

Kristof Vaes is assistant professor of design, addressing the human perspective of care and care technology. His research and teachings focus on design for interaction, inclusive design and product semantics.

Link to UAntwerp page

Vaikla Studio

Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla is a spatial researcher and an interior architect who explores the social and artistic dimensions of space and recently defended her doctoral thesis Re-purposing Space: the Role and Potential of Spatial Intervensions at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is a supervisor of transdisciplinary projects in EAA and has gained international experience at RMIT University of Melbourne as a lecturer and guest research fellow. Tüüne-Kristin is the curator the SISU interior architecture symposiums in Tallinn/Lucerne and editor-in-chief of the SISU–LINE interior architecture research journal.

Tüüne-Kristin and Urmo Vaikla are the founders and partners of Vaikla Studio.
They have represented Estonia at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale with a project How Long is the Life of a Building? and are currently working with the spatial design project for the 2017 Estonian Presidency of the EU Council in Tallinn and Brussels with their team.

Vaikla Studio

Urmo Vaikla is a practicing interior architect, his field of interest is film-making and photography about the relationship of people and spatial environment. Urmo has worked as associate professor in the Department of Interior Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts and served as the president of Estonian Society of Interior Architects.

Tüüne-Kristin and Urmo Vaikla are the founders and partners of Vaikla Studio.
They have represented Estonia at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale with a project How Long is the Life of a Building? and are currently working with the spatial design project for the 2017 Estonian Presidency of the EU Council in Tallinn and Brussels with their team.

Achilles Design

Achilles Design is a leading strategic design and product development consultancy with over 20 years of expercience. We help organizations achieve sustained relevance by bridging the gap between business strategy and design.

Our integral approach delivers a total user experience, that is essential to the success and development of a product, service or brand.
The bottom end is we create better experiences that help your business grow, and contribute to a sustainable world.

Ward Vancoppenolle and Tom Verbist are both Product Development graduates at Antwerp University with expertise in Service design, strategic design, front end development and concept development.

Born in 1976 and graduated in 2000, Stefan Vandervelden holds a master in Product Development (Antwerp). He first worked for 5 years as a designer marketing communication and as a product developer at Barco, a global technology company developing visualisation products. The past 12 years he has been working at Reynaers Aluminium, a global system developer of fenestration and façade solutions, leading a team that works on concept studies, research projects and VR-services for architects. In a domain where product design meets architecture, he worked on many projects shifting from merely mechanical and product design to integration of electronics, digital services and VR.

Sergison Bates architects

Camiel Van Noten is an architect and researcher based in London.
Graduating in 2012 at the KULeuven, his graduation project investigated alternative homeownership structures in East New York, an area gravely struck by the foreclosure crisis. After working in Paris for two years, Camiel joined Sergison Bates architects in 2014. As a project architect he works on many large-scale housing projects in Belgium. In 2016 he contributed to EUtopia, the possibility of an island, an exhibition to mark and celebrate the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia.
Camiel taught an interdisciplinary studio for the master students of the University of Antwerp and regularly contributes to academic discourse as a visiting critic at numerous institutions including the London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and the KULeuven.

Achilles Design

Achilles Design is a leading strategic design and product development consultancy with over 20 years of expercience. We help organizations achieve sustained relevance by bridging the gap between business strategy and design.

Our integral approach delivers a total user experience, that is essential to the success and development of a product, service or brand.
The bottom end is we create better experiences that help your business grow, and contribute to a sustainable world.

Tom Verbist and Ward Vancoppenolle are both Product Development graduates at Antwerp University with expertise in Service design, strategic design, front end development and concept development.

Link to UAntwerp page

Aerocircular - Chief Sustainability Officer

Toon Wassenberg is a Master of Bioscience Engineering (MSc) and holds a postgraduate degree in Cleantech Management. He worked as an environmental and sustainability policy advisor at regional, national and European level for over 15 years. Today, Toon is a self-employed business manager, sustainability expert and freelance writer focussed on environmental issues and futureproofed transitions such as circular economy. At Aerocircular he is responsible for the outflow of parts, components and materials.

Sarah Westphal is a visual artist based in Belgium and Germany. In her multidisciplinary work, including installation, photography and sculpture, she examines the history of a place and takes as her point of departure mankind’s impact on his or her surroundings to materialize the phenomenon of memory.

BAS Bergen Architecture School, Norway

Thomas Wiesner (°1956) is a Danish architect, visual artist and educator based in Copenhagen. MA 1983 from the School of Architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Work at Henning Larsen Architects before establishing his own atelier parallel with various collaborative artistic endeavours.

W. has educative practices at various Scandinavian and European architecture, art, theatre and design schools. W’s research interest centres on oblique contemporary dwelling issues & overlooked quotidian matters through the investigation of architectural spatial / phenomenological conditions via simple analogue design tools and the latest available, handheld digital paraphernalia. W. has, since 2005, been investigating the nature of body / space morphologies and haptic cognitions of inconspicuous architectural situations via extensive, micro-video recordings under the web moniker of Sam Renseiw.

Since 2010, Thomas Wiesner is professor in artistic approaches and architectural design at BAS Bergen Architecture School, Norway.