Tom Svilans, architectural designer, design consultant, and researcher, will give a lecture at the Computational Design: NEXT 5.0 conference about his explorations on the intersection of fabrication, materiality, and emerging technologies. Tom is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CITA (Centre for IT and Architecture) in Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on digital design across the timber value chain – from forestry to construction – and methods of integrating new imaging and information-communication technologies in the design and fabrication of engineered timber elements.Tom holds a PhD from the Royal Danish Academy, part of the EU-funded InnoChain research network. The PhD develops a digitally augmented material practice for the design and manufacture of large-scale free-form timber structures. It was supported by close collaborations with leading Swiss timber contractor Blumer Lehmann AG and multidisciplinary Scandinavian architecture practice White Arkitekter. Tom has presented and published his work internationally. He has taught, presented, or been a guest critic at, among other places, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, the Architectural Association (AA), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), and the Royal Danish Academy.