How do we shape our digital futures?
Globally, the tech market is now worth $5 trillion a year, Apple alone was the first publicly-traded U.S. company to reach $1 trillion in value. As our worlds’ become increasingly digital, Design West take a look at the spaces and places where the brightest tech minds gather.
How do you design for innovation? And does that design in-turn influence our visions of tomorrow?
Uniting architects and academics at the forefront of digital, Design West ask how the location, architecture, and technology of digital campuses shape both innovation and the communities around them.
From the iconic Apple Park in Silicon Valley, California to the new Bristol Digital Futures institute in Temple Quarter, we explore the cutting-edge design, engineering and psychology behind these ground-breaking centres of innovation.
Speakers
Cormac Farrelly Cormac joined AHMM in 2008 and works between the London and Bristol office. He has led a number of competition entries and feasibility studies for the practice. He was the Associate on the Birmingham Building Schools for the Future programme and winner of a RIBA National Award in 2014. He has led work on later living projects in Bristol and Cornwall, student residential and masterplanning projects for Bristol University. He was made an Associate Director in 2015 and Director in 2021.
Brian Eckersley is a leading Structural Engineer with over 30 years of experience and a passion for good design. His innovative approach to engineering saw him being involved in the world’s first ever, highly innovative loadbearing glass structures with Rick Mather Architect and on the seminal Tokyo international forum canopy. Since then he co-founded the award-winning structural engineering practice Eckersley O’Callaghan in 2004. Brian teaches at many UK schools of architecture including the Architectural Association, the Bartlett, The Royal College of Art and the University of Cambridge.
Prof Daniel Neyland is a social scientist and Professor of digital futures in the Bristol University Business School. For over 20 years he has worked on collaborative sociotechnical research projects, often working with computer scientists and engineers to come up with new ways of working and thinking. From studies of the everyday life of algorithms through to research on markets for digital data, he challenges assumptions regarding: the relationship between problems and solutions; what it means to govern and distribute relations of accountability and responsibility; and the process of research.
Bruce Gregory, Founder and Managing Director, Hub8 & Cynam.
Chair: Pippa Goldfinger.
This event is presented in partnership with AHMM, Eckersley O’Callaghan and University of Bristol.
