Designer }{ Researcher
Academia
Exhibitions/
Screenings
Press
Contact
//I am Ava Aghakouchak, an architectural designer finding her place in-between architecture, art and technology. My work focuses on the interaction between the user and built environment through the use of human-machine interfaces. I use performative arts as a tool to exhibit the effects of wearable technologies on the body-mind system. My recent work examines ideas of enhancement and amplification of human senses in order to gain control and eventually design the sensorial experience of the user.
//I believe studying the loop between the built environment, human senses and external behavior can help with more adaptive, responsive and respective designs for the man of future.
Education
//PHD CANDIDATE in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (JAN 2017 - PRESENT)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Gage, Dr. Christopher Leung
//MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (SEP 2015 - SEP 2016)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
BPro Architectural Design, Discrete Design Lab
//BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE in ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING (SEP 2010 - JULY 2015)
School of Architecture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology
//HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA in MATHEMATICS (SEP 2006 - JULY 2010)
Kherad Educational Complex, Tehran, Iran
Experience
//DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION, MARCH (SEP 2019 - PRESENT)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON
Contextual Theory Tutor
//DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION, MARCH (APR 2018 - PRESENT)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON
Thesis Report Supervisor
//ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, BA (SEP 2018 - PRESENT)
CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, CANTERBURY
Sessional Design Tutor
Workshops
//Resensing the Constant (SEP 2019)
PLATFORM 28, TEHRAN
Lead Instructor
//A DAY WITHOUT SCREENS (JUN 2018)
HERE EAST, LONDON
Co-organizer
//HETEROTOPIAN BODIES (MAY 2018)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON
Lead Instructor
//PRESS PLAY: VI ARDUINO WORKSHOP (SEP 2017)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON
Instructor
//PRESS PLAY: V ARDUINO WORKSHOP (SEP 2016)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON
Teaching Assistant
//PROTO ECOLOGIAS, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP (APR 2016)
MUSEU DO AMANHA, RIO DE JANEIRO
Assistant
//INTERACTIVIDADE1 ARDUINO WORKSHOP (APR 2016)
FABLABLIVRE SP, SAO PAULO
Teaching Assistant
Talks
//PhD Research Conference 2019. Bartlet School of Architecture. 2019.
//Back to where it all started. Here East. 2018.
//(Neuro)Science of Architecture. Contemporary Architects Association of Iran. 2018.
//Sarotis and Making of. Resonate Media Arts Festival. 2017.
//Neuroscience and Architecture. Bartlett School of Architecture. 2017.
//Sentimental Soft Robotics. Royal College of Arts. 2016.
Crits
//MArch, Architectural Design. Bartlett School of Architecture.
//MArch, Design for Performance and Interaction. Bartlett School of Architecture.
//BArch, Architectural Design. Westminster University.
//REDCAT, CalArt's Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA. 2020.
//Mr. Majidi and the Electricity Box. VO Curations, London, UK. 2019.
//Lesser Senses. Walmer Yard, London, UK. 2019.
//The Impakt Festival. Utrecht, Netherlands. 2019.
//Wolf Kino Cinema. Berlin, Germany. 2019.
//Doclisboa International Film Festival. Lisbon, Portugal. 2019.
//Dutch Design Week 2019. Manifestations, Eindhoven, Netherlands. 2019.
//ARS Electronica. Postcity Linz, Linz, Austria. 2019.
//PhD Research Projects Exhibition 2019. Bartlett School of Architecture, London. 2019.
//Harper's Bazaar 150th anniversary Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. 2017.
//Innovation in Haptics. Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK. 2017.
//Tomorrows. Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece. 2017.
//BodyHack Con. Austin TX, USA. 2017.
//Memememe. Crypt Galley (St Pancras), London, UK. 2017.
Digital
//Le Monde
//Design Milk
//Tracks-ARTE.TV
//Adafruit
//El Futuro Es Apasionante
//Discover Haptics
Printed
//Sarotis. Pasajes Arquitectura. 2017.
Address; Bartlett School of Architecture,
22 Gordon Street,
Bloomsbury, London.
WC1H 0QB.
Email; ava.aghakouchak.15@ucl.ac.uk
Tel; +44 7492 70 2320