30/06/2024
✨UN - NATURAL MAT(T)ERIAL EXHIBITION // ΜΕΕΤ ΤΗΕ PARTICIPANTS - Athina Papadopoulou (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Health, and Design NYIT and Co-Director ReMEDiaLab) - Mario Medina Vilela (Visiting Assistant Professor,
NYIT School of Architecture and Design) - Christian Pongratz (MSHD Director, Professor and Co-Director ReMEDiaLab)
👉Athina Papadopoulou, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Architecture, Health and Design at the School of Architecture and Design. Her current research focuses on programmable wearable environments addressing aspects of personal health and well-being, and on the exploration of bio-based material
fabrication addressing aspects of environmental health and wellbeing. She is the co-founder and co-director of NYIT ReMEDiaLab – A research laboratory investigating Regenerative Material Environments for Medical and Design Interactive Applications.
Athina received her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Design Computation, with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Presidential, Vergottis, and Leon Hyzen Fellow. She was also a member of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab and
the MIT Computational Making Group. As part of her Ph.D. dissertation, she developed Affective Matter, a novel material system that interacts with the body to aid in emotion selfregulation and communication. She is the inventor and co-inventor of several patent-pending and patented technologies involving materials with programmable behavior that adapt or respond to environmental conditions, user’s physiology or needs.
Prior to joining the New York Institute of Technology, Athina taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Boston Architectural College. She received a Diploma in Architectural Engineering and a Postgraduate Master’s in Design Theory from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where she is also a registered architect. Her work has been published in science and design journals including Nature, Cognitive Science, and Architectural Design, in computation and human-computer interaction conferences, and international design venues, including the Milan Furniture Fair and the Venice Biennale.
👉Mario Medina Vilela is a Computational Designer and Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture, Health & Design at the School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology. Mario’s research and work lies at the intersection of Computation, Digital Fabrication and Bio Design investigating how traditional building design methods and materials can be reinvented through advanced fabrication tools such as 3D printing, robotic and digital fabrication to promote sustainable, circular, health and well-being design solutions.
Prior to SoAD, Mario was the lead Computational Designer and Project Manager at Protolab Architects working on engineering computational design workflows for design and fabrication in Climbing Walls, and Art Installations and an Adjunct Faculty at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design teaching Design Studios and Computational Design Seminars. His background in Architecture allowed Mario to work at multiple design offices such as Pickard Chilton, working on multiple highrise buildings across the country.
Mario received his Master of Science in Architectural Computation from the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, London in 2019. Mario’s master dissertation focused on employing computational workflows to segmentize mesh
geometries towards computational knitting. In 2016, Mario received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design from the University of Houston, Texas.
👉Christian R Pongratz is the Senior Advisor to the Provost and Professor of Architecture. From 2017-2019, he was the Interim Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education. In order to facilitate increased collaboration among New York Tech‘s disciplinary silos he is initiating new collaborative programs and teamwork driven projects engaging people, communities and
industry. He co-founded the Creative Tech Innovation Council together with Isabel Draves (New York Creative Tech Week) and by forming transdisciplinary teams explores how innovation emerges at the intersection of design research, technology and business serving communities and solving broader environmental, social and economic issues.
Prior to joining New York Tech, Christian R. Pongratz was the director and founder of the Digital Design and Fabrication Program and Master of Science Specialization in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University, where he also was a professor. He taught at the School of Architecture, University of
Texas at Austin from 2000 – 2002, and was visiting professor at Yeungjin Jr. College, Taegu, Korea, the Busan International Architectural Design Seminar, Busan, Korea, and at the Architectural Association.
He is a jury member for the Pinnacle Awards by the MIA since 2007. He studied Architecture at TUM and Sci-Arc, and is a licensed architect in Germany with registration in Berlin. Before establishing his own practice, he worked in New York for Peter Eisenman and John Reimnitz, and was involved with the design of international, invited design competitions and with prestigious commissioned buildings. Together with Maria Perbellini, in 2002 he co-founded and is a principal at pONGRATZ pERBELLINI Architects, an architectural design practice and researchoriented atelier investigating computation with material-based processes. PPA’s expertise in digital design and fabrication technologies engages with an architecture of experience and explores geometries, textures, and surface structures, and their material properties, behaviors, and performances.
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