Alexander Clarke Workshops

Alexander Clarke is a designer and computer scientist from London. His research focuses on biomimetics and human-computer interaction towards the future of fabrication. He currently works as a robotics software engineer at Automated Architecture (AUAR), a London-based startup developing robotic micro-factories towards sustainable housing with timber construction.He builds highly interactive prototypes that blend art and science, craft and code, working extensively with parametric design tools like Grasshopper and computer vision, mechatronics, and woodworking. He has previously served as Lead Software Architect for a UCL gestural computing research project, exhibited his lighting and sculptural works at various new media art events and exhibitions, built demos for startups, and taught students to code.Alexander weaves a growing interest in biology and complexity science into his practice. During his Masters at LIS, he used machine learning to develop simulations of self-organizing behaviors in plant leaf development and, more recently, investigated how collectives of arachnids build adaptive, tensile nest structures across vast scales.