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
//PART-TIME LECTURER (OCT 2020 - PRESENT)
CONTEXTUAL THEORY, DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION (MARCH)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//SUPERVISOR (SEP 2019 - PRESENT)
CONTEXTUAL THEORY, DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION (MARCH)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//MARCH THESIS SUPERVISOR (APR 2018 - PRESENT)
DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION (MARCH)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//ASSOSIATE LECTURER (SEP 2018 - PRESENT)
ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN (BA Hons)
Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK
Workshops
//LEAD INSTRUCTOR AND ORGANIZER (SEP 2019)
Platform 28
Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
//CO-ORGANIZER AND CONTRIBUTOR (JUN 2018)
A DAY WITHOUT SCREENS
Bartlett School of Architecture, Sainsbury-Wellcome Center, Sadler's Wells
Here East, London, UK
//LEAD INSTRUCTOR (MAY 2018)
Heterotopian Bodies
Design for Performance and Interaction (MArch)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//INSTRUCTOR (SEP 2017)
PRESS PLAY: VI ARDUINO WORKSHOP
Interactive Architecture Lab (MArch)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//TEACHING ASSISTANT (SEP 2016)
PRESS PLAY: V ARDUINO WORKSHOP
Interactive Architecture Lab (MArch)
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
//ASSISTANT (APR 2016)
PROTO ECOLOGIAS, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
Museu Do Amanha, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
//TEACHING ASSISTANT (APR 2016)
INTERACTIVIDADE1 ARDUINO WORKSHOP
FABLABLIVRE SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Talks
//Possible Futures Lecture Series. Design for Performance and Interaction. 2020.
//Lesser Senses. Walmer Yard. 2019.
//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.
//Proyector Video-Art Festival. Madrid, Spain. 2020.
//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