ICD Research Talk – Maria Yablonina

We are pleased to invite you to the next ICD Talk. Maria Yablonina will give a lecture on Designing[with]Machines:  Task- and Site-Specific Robotic Teams for Architectural In-Situ Making. The talk will serve as the public PhD lecture for Maria, who has successfully defended her PhD!

Maria Yablonina's thesis explores an approach to the design of robotic fabrication systems and workflows wherein the hardware and the design parameters are treated as interdependent variables. This approach, entitled Designing[with]Machines, offers an opportunity to develop robotic hardware and software systems from scratch, allowing them to be tailored to fit the criteria of the design and fabrication processes. The proposed methodology includes simultaneous development of hardware, software and architectural design parameters, which can be described as a series of interdependent relationships between the machine, the site, the material, and the designer. Within these relationships, the typically rigid technical parameter boundaries of robotic hardware become compliant and adjustable in response to the design criteria.

Maria Yablonina was a doctoral researcher at IntCDC until she was appointed as associate professor at the University of Toronto in 2020.