Designer }{ Researcher

Academia
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
Exhibitions
​
​
​
​
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

//ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, BA (SEP 2018 - PRESENT)

CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, CANTERBURY

Sessional Design Tutor

​

//DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTION, MARCH (APR 2018 - PRESENT)

BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON

Thesis Report Supervisor

​

Workshops

//A DAY WITHOUT SCREENS (JUN 2018)

HERE EAST, LONDON

Co-organizer

 

//HETEROTOPIAN BODIES (MAY 2018)

BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

Instructor

​

//PRESS PLAY: VI ARDUINO WORKSHOP (SEP 2017)
BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON
Teaching Assistant

​

//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.

​

​

​

//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.

​

​

​

Address; Bartlett School of Architecture,

         22 Gordon Street,

         Bloomsbury, London.

         WC1H 0QB.

Email;   ava.aghakouchak.15@ucl.ac.uk

         ava.agak@gmail.com

         aa@interactivearchitecture.org

Tel;     +44 7492 70 2320