factorymaker hosted a workshop last week with students from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s Master in AI for Architecture & Business Innovation, together with Angelos Chronis (infrared.city). The TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) opened the session with an introduction to TU Wien’s innovation ecosystem.
The workshop centred on two questions: how do you teach an algorithm to value the things planners can’t quite articulate, and how do you balance personal preferences with objective performance indicators in one system. In a hands-on session on the platform, students chose between generated layouts and talked through their reasoning, putting human-in-the-loop interaction directly into practice.
The session ties into SmartLayouts, factorymaker’s FFG-funded research project with TU Wien, which explores how planner judgement and quantitative evaluation can be combined within a single decision system. Bringing education, research and applied development into the same room is something we plan to do more of.
