I've worked as an Adjunct professor and Year 4 Design Studio leader at INDA, International Program in Design and Architecture in Bangkok, Thailand, for the last 4 years (2019-2022). I’ve also been invited as guest lecturer and professor for seminars, reviews and workshops at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London; Aarhus School of Architecture; the Bartlett UCL; Hong Kong University; Hong Kong City University; EDUMEET Madrid; Space Saloon; OSSA.
As an educator and in my work with students, I'm interested in exploring, experimenting, and promoting collaboration and peer-to-peer learning practices. I introduce formats and routines dedicated to building and communicating students' own position and relationship with contemporary digital cultures, reflecting on climate change, trends and current global and trans-local developments, and discussing the principles for new civic typologies in spatial planning and architecture through research, writing and 3D game/video media narratives. Working with game engines, open-world games and social platforms, asset archives, and 3D modeling software, I want to better understand their culture-shaping role.
In May 2020, amid the global lockdown, I coordinated and developed virtual infrastructure, protocols, and a 3D online environment for Inda Parade 2020, the international end-of-the-year virtual student festival introducing the entire university program into new remote education formats. I started and coordinated the school's first public online lecture program, "Never The Right Time," imagined and proposed as an essential alternative space at the school for building, sharing perspectives and ideas about present and possible futures of education, participation, and practice, with speakers: Alice Bucknell, Lindsay Bremner, School of Commons, Dank Lloyd Wright and Tuliza Sindi. I am interested in urbanization processes and landscape terraforming in the context of climate change, information, and resource politics. In May/June 2022, I coordinated the field research trip "Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Regions" to document and theorize different tactics for inhabiting one of the harshest territories on the planet.
Exploring alternative pedagogies, I co-founded Monitor Lizard House project space in Bangkok and You Said You Like Dancing collective as a non-hierarchical porous ensemble open to all, organizing events blending formats of gallery, club, workshop, living room, and landscape into temporal zones for collective being, exchange, and joy.![]()
School of Many Schools focuses on peer-to-peer learning formats, building and exploring speculative future scenarios through world-building, cinema, games, and publishing.
Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education
Footnotes is a Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people organised by School of Commons. It will take place from 29. August to 1. September 2022, on the campus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Footnotes is conceived as a Live Action Role-Playing Game, which will unfurl from a speculative scenario. Assume a fictional character to interpret and design future realities. No prior experience needed.
Footnotes will be split into three workshop days and two conference days. You can register for the workshops and the conference separately, but you are also welcome to attend both. Choose between seven groups, each exploring a specific theme: Digital Cultures of Education, Art and Society, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, Knowledge Commons, Institutional Structures and Strategies, Ecological and Social Sustainability, the Institutional vs. the Non-Institutional.
participant
School of Commons
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Region
The Arctic, a fetishized territory, almost always exoticised and often considered a ‘frontier’ to human settlement and modernity, despite having been inhabited for millennia, falls across national, environmental, and mythological boundaries. One of the fastest-populating regions in the world, the Arctic lies at the intersection of climate change, post-colonialism, extractivism, indigenous sovereignty claims, and new trade routes. It is also a venue for radical urbanisation: resurrected indigenous architectural practices, reconstructed ruins, underground apocalyptic vaults, collapsing Cold War infrastructure, shifting design paradigms, avalanche-reactive zoning, and nostalgic cities. The unique spatial attributes of the contemporary Arctic formed the basis of “Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Region”, a research trip to document and theorise different tactics for inhabiting one of the harshest territories on the planet.
program leader with Eduardo Cassina
Experiencing Architecture, Summer Program, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
Never The Right Time: Public Lecture Series
We are dwelling in uncertainties of our world, its climate, accelerated and volatile market, blurred boundaries of profession, life opportunities and challenges, liquidated institutions. We share the vulnerability, dreams, ideas, desires and attitudes towards the common present and the future - learning how we could describe, define the world to recognize its diversity and our interdependence. It's hard to find a right time for all of that, therefore we need practices to stretch time and space where we can build imaginaries of our present.
'Never the Right Time Public Lecture Series" acts as an amplifier inviting radical thinkers and practitioners to discuss our common ground and ways of possible world building.”
During one year, I had a pleasure to invite and host incredible speakers: Alice Bucknell, Lindsay Bremner, Dank Lloyd Wright, School of Commons, and Tuliza Sindi. As well as collaborating on visual direction with Thai artist Cuscus the Cookoos who develeoped posters for the series.
independent lecture series
program coordinator
2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
metametameta.io
Metaverse has recently become one
of the hottest topics in the innovation driven media narratives. It’s not necessarily clear
what this is or might be. The market definition/s are yet to be promoted, and what is clear now is the
massive capital interest to pioneer in this venture. One thing is sure - the internet is not going anywhere and we need to evaluate,
discuss and build better personal and public spaces, practices, methodologies in the online/digital. Why we need to reevaluate contemporary digital developments and how to build
digital infrastructures as spaces to learn, play, exchange and experiment with different forms of governance and online cultures, as an active participatory process, becomes the core
question of the studio.
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
The School In Real Time
“Organizing a condensed 24-hour event series that mixes physical and virtual presence seemed very relevant to the current moment we live in. Social media has altered the way knowledge is consumed, as attention spans are becoming fragmented. At the same time, we have access to increasingly rich experiences of digital connectivity. In this context, architecture benefits greatly from plugging in to the broader circulation of ideas, so finding new ways of engaging with different parts of the world becomes crucial in forming a progressive architectural agenda”.
The program will explore how emergent tools, practices, and spaces of the immaterial realm are becoming a crucial form of architectural engagement.
studio leader in participation with students Nana Boonorm, Supanat Chaiyanopakul, Thanakorn Phonthanakornkul
Aarhus School of Architecture
Aarhus, Denmark, 2021
Faculty of Transmissions Research Paper
The Faculty of Transmissions looks at the potentials and new preferable forms of pedagogy, production, and mediation of knowledge. How do we form collaborations and how can we provide common ground for both the individual and collective growth is essential when establishing new learning frameworks, important as the alternatives to the institutions that are deep in crisis. It seeks to operate with community-rooted principles at multiple scales, across many generations, and timelines. This proposal discusses an alternative form of publicly funded and inclusive educational networks, reimagined through the infrastructure of web 3.0 and blockchain, inviting students, public, radical thinkers and anyone willing to participate and shape a dynamic curriculum composed as the school of many schools with the unlearning attitude at heart.
Gitcoin Grant project proposal
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Paradise Estate
Travel has long associations with the
idea of growth and progress. Having imperial and colonial roots, movement
in space and the arrival to the “destination” carries the promise of “new” as the “experience” of the “other” could
become transformative, rebooting the “self” - the body and mind of the visitor. This unfolding hyper-preservation and alienation of the place through the media-constructed image of the paradise paradoxically goes hand in hand with the
rapid development and transformation of the environment with attention economy as the main driving force. With so many bodies, species, machines, resources, and planetary-scale infrastructures involved deeply in the production of free time, the studio aims to focus on
land study to map and unlearn the concept of real-estate, exploring its complex territorial, cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of tourism. Working
with cinema as your medium, you will construct alternative environmental and
geo-political scenarios developed from your research and proposed changes in
human culture.
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021
EDUMEET. International Congress on Transfers for Innovation and Pedagogical Change 2020
Madrid, Spain, 2020
Charette, Catalyst of Pedagogies, the journal of AEE, Association of Architecture Educators
> see pdf here
Journal, 2020
What Texture Pack Is This? Post-Nostalgia in Academia,
Campfire Conference
Curator
with
Tijn van de Wijdeven
Monitor Lizard House,
Bangkok, Thailand, 2020
Design Studio Semiar by Merve Bedir
speaker
Hong Kong University
Hong Kong, 2020
Tool For Architectre Desing Studio Seminar
speaker
with Patrick Donbeck
Architectural Association
London, UK. 2020
Keep School Real, Inda Parade 2020, Virtual Student Festival
coordinator and designer
with Patrick Donbeck
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Home Is Design Build
summer program instructor and coordinator
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Satellite Lab Research Workshop
research workshop leader
Space Saloon Online
Tipping Points
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
You i i i i i and everything else
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Art Machines Symposium
keynote speaker
Hong Kong City University,
Hong Kong, 2019
Lecture at Faculty of Architecture, Thammasat University
Faculty of Architecture,
Thammasat University, 2018
New Generations Festival, speaker
Genoa, Italy 2015
Arts + Bits Festival, speaker
Academy of Fine Arts,
Katowice, Poland, 2015
OSSA Architectural Seminar, tutor
Cracow, Poland, 2015
CNIBA Conference, laws and innovations in design process
Katowice, Poland, 2015
TechnoKato, speaker and organiser for series of events
Katowice, Poland, 2015
