SG2010 Cluster: Parametrics and physical interactions

	This cluster is enabling and encouraging the use of physical/tangible interfaces, sensor devices, and their integration in the design process. As parametric relationships between the virtual and physical reality are bridged and can be simulated, situational variations of parameters that exist in the physical realm can be reflected in the virtual parametric model. For example, parametric models can adapt to external circumstances (e.g. air movement, solar radiation, surrounding objects, spatial conditions, and user interaction patterns etc) and generate real-time feedback through the connected physical devices. In this way architectural models can be created, simulated, and directly informed by this interaction. Special set of libraries, plug-ins and features for interaction with GC will be created before the workshop. During the workshop these will be used to create installations. The installations will consist of parametric architectural model(s) defined in GC and an external set of hardware components (Arduino, Wii-motes etc, sensors) that ‘capture’ parametric relations in the physical environment. A physical response will be an integral part of the installation.
	Hugo Mulder is a Senior Engineer with Arup’s Advanced Technology + Research London Group. He graduated from TU Delft in 2003. He has been in Arup since 2002 and was involved in various projects including the European Extremely Large Telescope enclosure design. Hugo's interests include responsive architecture and responsive structures. In SmartGeometry 2009, he developed a system for interactivity between the physical and the virtual worlds. Using an Arduino, a servo, and a camera, he designed GenerativeComponents forms that are responsive to human's physical gestures.
	Flora Dilys Salim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), RMIT University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science. She is now working on a major Australian grant about assimilation of architectural and services design. Her focus in the project is to establish a framework for software interoperability and transdisciplinary information sharing between parametric design and energy analysis software. Her research interests are context-aware systems, conceptual modelling, data mining, and adaptive systems. In SmartGeometry 2009, she developed a mechanism for Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote) to interact with parametric forms in GenerativeComponents. She is a lecturer in numerous postgraduate Computer Science courses, teaching distributed computing, database systems and .NET programming.
	Przemek Jaworski (pronounced Pshemek Yavorski) is a Computational Designer at Foster+Partners and a member of Specialist Modelling Group since 2006. He graduated from Bartlett, UCL (Adaptive Architecture and Computation Course), and Wroclaw University of Technology (MSc in Architecture and Urban Planning). In the past he was involved in demoscene movement (1995-2000) as a coder and graphic designer, programming 3d real-time effects in C++/OpenGL. His interests include semi-intelligent and self-organizing systems, real-time simulations and physical computing. During SmartGeometry 2009 Master Class he co-developed generative growth system for data visualisation of waste disposal and collection in New York (agent based). His experience encompasses GC, Microstation VBA, Processing, Arduino and Open Frameworks.