Design-Tech Talk 13

Step into the future of architecture and design with Design-Tech Talk 13, a two-day online event exploring the ideas, technologies, and innovations shaping the next generation of creative practice.

Bringing together leading architects, designers, and innovators from around the world, the event highlights a diverse range of perspectives at the intersection of design and technology. Through engaging presentations and discussions, attendees will discover emerging tools, evolving workflows, and forward-thinking approaches that are transforming architecture and the broader design industry.

Whether you are an architect, designer, student, researcher, or technology enthusiast, Design-Tech Talk 13 offers an opportunity to gain fresh insights, expand your perspective, and connect with a global community passionate about the future of design.

An active membership is required to watch the recordings after the live event.

Program

Will be announced soon.

Guest Speakers:

Harlen Miller

Harlen Miller is an Associate Design Director | Senior Architect and Digital Innovations Co-Lead at UNS’s Amsterdam office with nearly 20 years of global experience with various firms and sub-consultancies. He relocated from Los Angeles to Europe in 2012, broadening his international reach and client base and has been fortunate to witness many of his design collaborations proceed into reality.

His technical specialty spans project management & delivery, digital innovation & research, as well as HR recruitment and the training of next-generation emerging designers. By utilizing digital tooling to craft compelling narrative concepts, his team has explored visionary and speculative typologies in Architecture, Fashion, Master planning, Transport, and Product Design.

Sara Codarin

Sara is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University’s College of Architecture and Design. Holding a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Ferrara, her work thrives at the intersection of technology and humanism. As a techno-optimist with a deep appreciation for robotics, her research bridges digital and physical spaces, exploring large-scale additive manufacturing, robotic fabrication, digital craft, storytelling, and generative AI for world-building.

An accomplished author, Sara recently published Robotics for Architectural Restoration (Routledge, 2026) and Architecture of Domesticity (Anteferma, 2026). Her contributions to the field earned her the 2022 Crain’s Detroit Notable Women in Design and Construction Award and the title of 2024 Italian Design Day Ambassador by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit. Her innovative projects have been widely showcased at prominent venues, including the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale IntelliGENS, Milan Design Week, the Detroit Month of Design, and various esteemed academic institutions.

Bhavleen Kaur Narula

Bhavleen Kaur is an architect, researcher, and educator exploring computational design, robotics, and other emerging technologies in architectural education. With over a decade of teaching and research across India, Europe, and the United States, her work spans scales and modes of inquiry, from drawing machines and operative mapping to programmable toolpaths and experimental robotic bodies. 

She is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Lead at the Robotics and Digital Fabrication (RDF) Lab at Florida International University (FIU), where she co-develops technologies, curriculum, and learning frameworks for NSF-funded projects in immersive robotic training for the future AEC workforce. She also serves as Academic Coordinator of the Doctor of Design program at FIU  and as a steering member of DigitalFUTURES International, helping build educational materials reaching learners in 15+ languages across 80+ countries.

Adam Vosburgh

Adam Vosburgh is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the M.S. Computational Design Practices program at Columbia GSAPP. He is interested in architecture as a software system, the critical use of geospatial data to describe the built environment, and the representation of architecture in interactive digital media.

His work has been exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, GA Gallery, and is in the permanent collection of the Foundation Cartier.

Previously, Adam worked as a junior architect at SANAA in Tokyo, and Office for Metropolitan Architecture in New York.

Adam received his M. Arch from Columbia GSAPP with the Honor Award for Design and Visualization, and his B.A. in Architecture from UNC Charlotte.

Tom Svilans

Tom Svilans is the CTO at Omtre AS and a researcher at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, developing solutions for the digital design, construction, and manufacturing of timber projects. His work spans the entire timber value chain, from forestry to construction and reuse, focusing on how imaging and communication technologies can connect design intelligence with timber fabrication. As a consultant, he specializes in the computational modeling, design development, and fabrication coordination of complex timber structures.

Tom holds a PhD from the Royal Danish Academy through the EU-funded InnoChain research network, where he developed digitally augmented material practices for large-scale, free-form timber structures in collaboration with Blumer Lehmann AG and White Arkitekter. His work has been presented and published internationally, and he has taught at several prestigious academic institutions, including the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), the Architectural Association (AA), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), and the Royal Danish Academy.

Shin Obinata

Shin Obinata is a designer and the founder of SEKISAI, a Tokyo-based design studio exploring new possibilities in color, texture, and form through 3D printing and computational design. His practice spans products, interiors, architecture, and fashion, with collaborations including Panasonic and ANREALAGE. Guided by a vision of moving from mass production to “Mass Expression,” he designs both objects and the processes that make them. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2026 and is an adjunct lecturer at Keio University SFC.