After completing my Masters MSc Computing and Design with Paul Coates at Uel i worked for four years at Ian Ritchie Architects. The Royal Albert Rowing Centre is one of the many building I worked on in these four year. I started my academic career at UCL where I taught for three years in the Degree Programme followed by one year in the MSc Virtual Environments. In 2001 I began teaching in the degree programme at UEL before taking up the position of Programme Leader for the Diploma in Architecture Programme in 2006.

Programme Leader for the Diploma in Architecture / Design Tutor

An intest in complexity theory and its relevance for Architecture has led my research from abstract experiments in algorithmic generative design a larger concern with the city as complex urban system. ‘How can the urban’s morphological structure support social relation in order to ‘produce’ or protect the public sphere’ is one of the central interests.

Diploma in Architecture

ARM101, ARM102, ARM105, ARM201, ARM202, ARM205,

Parametricism and Space Making

Civic Aspects of Migrant Worker Villages in the Pearl River Delta

HE Building Typologies,  Educational Institutions and their relationship to the City

The Civic City

-  VIPA EU - consortium for virtual campus for architects, http://adm.at:8080/vipa.adm.at

-  The VIPA Project - Notes on the pedagogical approach to design education using active 3d worlds ECAADE 06 Volos Greece

-  Urbs II – EU Erasmus, Sokrates-programme, Intensive programme, urb-2 / urban research lab, http://www.urbs-network.de

-  Interacting Unities: An Agent-Based System, A. Turner, R. Thum, Generative Art Milan, http://www.generativeart.com

-  Architectural Design and Problem Worrying in Trespassing – Shaping Spatial Practice, Secession Vienna

-  Coates Thum & Derix, Dust Plates & Blobs, Generative Art Milan 2002, http://www.generativeart.com        

-  Thum & Derix Self Organising Space, Generative Art Milan 200, http://www.generativeart.com

-  Coates & Thum, Parallel Architecture and Agent based modelling, Greenwich 2000 University of Greenwich London 2000

  - on going collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna  in the field of Algorithmic Design

The paper explores the interaction between pedestrians and their environment by regarding it as a process occurring between the two. It is hypothesised that the recurrent interaction between pedestrians and environment can lead to a structural coupling between those elements. In a landscape where each agent locally modifies its environment that in turn affects its movement, while the other agents respond to the new environment at a later time, indicating that the phenomenon of stigmergy is possible to take place. It is found that it is the environment’s internal rules that determine the nature and extent of change.

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