6pm Tuesday 7th December, Teams

“You have never met someone at a place unless it was also at a time. And you have never met someone at a time unless it was in a place.”

We can be standing on one spot on the Earth, and that physical location is the same as it was yesterday, a hundred years ago, or ten thousand. Yet on that same spot there might have been all kinds of activity. The site’s features might have changed over time, but the location is still one and the same. Could these “ghosts” from our perceived past, help us to further understand our place within space and time and better inform our understanding of the built environments we live in? Could augmented reality as a time-based medium somehow simulate time-travel by allowing us to experience things that stood in a location, in a different time, in a much more immersive way than photographs or recorded media have ever been able to do?

Matt will discuss his ongoing work on developing these proposals into a live project in Brighton with Dr Poorang Piroozfar who has been engaged in the realisation of the work with the MAVRiC Research Group.

Matt Reed is a freelance inter-media artist and designer specialising in architectural and stained glass design, video production and bespoke wallpapers for film and television. He has worked for all of the major TV networks and has had his work shown in London’s Institute of Contemporary Art and The National Portrait Gallery. His work is also included in a book entitled “The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London” which charts work in locations around London by some of the most respected artists working in stained glass between 1399 and 2015. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1113187/

Matt is currently studying for an MA in Architectural and Urban Design at the University of Brighton where he is exploring new ways of working with technology such as Augmented Reality and 3d scanning.

Poorang is a Reader in SoATE. Before moving into full-time into academia after his PhD in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, he practised as an architect and an urban designer for over ten years. His research investigates the drivers, requirements, benefits and responses to deployment of advanced technologies in Architecture, the Built Environment and Construction, and triangulates people, information, technology and environment to find out the most viable and highly acceptable solutions to the problems in the field. His work involves both hard and soft technologies, as well as the socio-cultural and human-machine interactions to achieve this goal.

Poorang is co-founder and director of @BEACON (Advanced Technologies in the Built Environment, Architecture and CONstruction) research group, founder and immediate past director of BERG (Built Environment Research Group), founder and director of Digital Construction Lab, at School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK, co-founder and chairman of NoNames Design Research and Studies, founder and director of MAVRiC (Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality inter-Connected) research group and a British Council Fund Reviewer.