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Theories of Architecture Fellowship Program 2023/2024

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Shanti Sumartojo, Associate Professor of Design Research | Design Department

Monash Data Futures Institute  | Emerging Technologies Lab

Monash University, Australia.

During her two-week visiting period at the Architecture Department, Prof. Shanti Sumartojo shared her ongoing research work on ‘atmospherics’ and the intersections of architectural and ethnographic research methods with our research staff and students. Her sociology background and her current work on how people experience design via imaging and imagination, has served her as a solid platform to study the many ways in which we engage our environments: via our technologies, our sensorial and perceptive apparatuses, our cognitive abilities, our collective and communal interactions. In different modalities, Shanti’s expertise and scholarly work served as a conduit to open productive discussions and rich conversations on the multiple means and methods available to the architect to aid us make sense of the complex entanglements of digital, visual, sensorial and designerly elements that constitute our modes of environmental and social existence.