Design-Tech Talk 11

Step into the future of design innovation with Design-Tech Talk 11, a two-day online event exploring the evolving relationship between architecture, technology, and digital design.

Through a series of curated sessions, the event will investigate how emerging technologies continue to reshape creative practice and redefine the future of the built environment. The program brings together discussions around computational design, new digital tools, and the ongoing technological shifts influencing architecture and design today.

Whether you are an architect, designer, researcher, or enthusiast, Design-Tech Talk 11 offers a space to engage with forward-looking ideas, explore new perspectives, and connect with the broader design-tech community.

More information about guest speakers will be added soon.

Guest Speakers:

Franz Forsberg

Franz Forsberg is the co-founder of Spacio, a web-based AI design platform that lets architects sketch, analyze, and validate early-stage building proposals in one place. His background is in architecture (Hosei University, Japan; Architectural Association, London) building performance and parametric design (daylight, sun hours, energy, comfort…). He led work in this field at Link Arkitektur in Scandinavia before co-founding Spacio.

Frustrated by the gap between design tools that look good and analysis tools that give real numbers, Franz set out to build a single platform where geometry and performance data update together from the very first sketch. Today, Spacio helps architects move faster through the phase where decisions matter most, early design, without losing accuracy, buildability, or compliance.

Ekaterina Lukasheva

Ekaterina Lukasheva is a paper artist whose work bridges mathematics and sculpture. Born in Moscow, Russia, she developed an early fascination with architecture, art, and mathematical puzzles. She later earned an MSc in mathematics and computer science and a PhD in mathematics, forming a foundation that allows her to approach origami intuitively through geometry.

In addition to her artistic practice, she is the author of five books on modular origami and origami tessellations. Guided by her motto, “Create new shapes instead of reusing well-known ones,” she continuously explores the topology and limits of paper as a sculptural medium.

Artist statement: My work explores the intersection of mathematics and beauty through folded paper. Using principles of geometry, symmetry, and curved surfaces, I transform flat sheets into complex three-dimensional tessellations.

Each piece is both an artwork and an invisible engineering structure, designed so it can always return to its original flat form. I am driven by a desire to discover new geometries rather than repeat familiar ones, using paper as a medium to investigate what is possible within the constraints of a single sheet.

Tony Tsui

Tony Tsui is a multidisciplinary designer and founder of Noodo Lab, a Hong Kong–based design studio focused on advanced fabrication, digital production, and experimental making.

His work explores the intersection of design, computation, and manufacturing, with a particular focus on large-scale additive manufacturing, custom toolpath generation, digital heritage documentation, and sustainable material innovation. Through Noodo Lab, he develops products, installations, and fabrication systems that challenge conventional approaches to making, often creating bespoke workflows that blur the boundaries between design, craft, and technology.