Making Matters

Abstract: Making is the core activity to the training of designers. As a design educator and an architect by training, Sheng-Fen Chien (Nik) explores the making process with college students, grade school kids, as well as community people to improve the awareness and foster co-creators of built environments. Products (matters) from the making process are catalysts for changes, personal changes and/or social changes. As a researcher and a programmer by hobby, Nik examines interactions between makers and tools they make to know more about human intelligence and creativity. In this talk, Nik will share matters of making through themes of form making, object making and community making.

Bio: Nik holds a PhD in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She is an Associate Professor in the Architecture Department, as well as the Graduate Program on Techno Art, of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She co-founded the Association of Humanitarian Architecture (AHA Taiwan) empowering underprivileged communities through design/build co-creations.

Additional info:

https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/2022/08/19/atlas-welcomes-professor-sheng-fen-nik-chien-visiting-scientist-and-scholar

Making Matters

Abstract: Making is the core activity to the training of designers. As a design educator and an architect by training, Sheng-Fen Chien (Nik) explores the making process with college students, grade school kids, as well as community people to improve the awareness and foster co-creators of built environments. Products (matters) from the making process are catalysts for changes, personal changes and/or social changes. As a researcher and a programmer by hobby, Nik examines interactions between makers and tools they make to know more about human intelligence and creativity. In this talk, Nik will share matters of making through themes of form making, object making and community making.

Bio: Nik holds a PhD in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She is an Associate Professor in the Architecture Department, as well as the Graduate Program on Techno Art, of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She co-founded the Association of Humanitarian Architecture (AHA Taiwan) empowering underprivileged communities through design/build co-creations.

Additional info:

https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/2022/08/19/atlas-welcomes-professor-sheng-fen-nik-chien-visiting-scientist-and-scholar