DUB is our grassroots, cross-campus alliance of students, faculty, and industry partners interested in HCI and Design & UW. DUB Community Day is an annual event aimed at bringing us together to reflect on our community, welcome newcomers, share fresh ideas, and socialize. Talks will be broadcast on Zoom, but networking will be in-person only.
Our agenda:
The retreat is being organized on the DUB mailing list, including information on how to RSVP and participate.
Bridging Realms: Architecture and HCI
Prof Sayegh will delve into the dynamic interplay between architecture and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He will explore the potential that emerges at the crossroads of these two disciplines, drawing from the innovative projects at his firm INVIVIA and his research at the REAL Lab at Harvard University unveiling the potentials of transformative power of this convergence.
Prof Sayegh is an architect, designer, and educator and the principal of INVIVIA – an award winning design firm head the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab at Harvard University GSD where he has been teaching as a practicing professor for more than two decades.
His courses and practice focus on technologically driven transformative design, exploring potentials of media and technology integrated built environment, Interaction design and the study of architectural and urban space thought through the impact of changing technology. His work is characterized as the cross between between the disciplines of architecture, digital art and design in coming up with innovative solutions to new and complex problems.
In addition to his design work he has a deep interest in the visual arts and has been a recurring visiting professor at the Harvard Carpenter Center of Visual and Environmental Studies offering courses in the areas of media and the built environment such as; Sculpting Motion, Interactive Spaces, Augmented Architecture, Cinematic Architecture, and Responsive Environments.
Prof. Sayegh, has served as key faculty in many harvard university interdisciplinary initiatives at Harvard among them the Alive group with Wyss Institute at Harvard and LDT the laboratory of Design Technologies. He has published and exhibited extensively and in many prestigious venues including the Guggenheim NY, The Duomo in Florence, The Storefront of Art and he has been part of many architecture and art biennales including Moscow, Kwangju, and Venice Biennales.
REAL Lab looks into the topics that cross the disciplines between the built environment, technology and human experience.
INVIVIA his design firm has a diverse set of clients including municipalities, corporations and NGOs such as Microsoft, Boeing, LG, The city of Copenhagen, Bergamo in Italy, City of NY, Calgary, MIT/DARPA, NY Museum of Natural History, The IOC, Hewlett Packard, SAMSUNG, and more.