Join UCLA Architecture and Urban Design for the first event in our
2019 IDEAS EVENT SERIES:
WILD IN THE STREETS
The average American adult spends 54 minutes a day commuting, more
than 11 hours a day staring at screens, has 1.4 real friends and 338
Facebook friends. _Wild in the Streets_ is about taking technology,
art and digital content off the screen and into the world.
PROGRAM
3 PM-4:30 PM: Tour of the IDEAS CAMPUS: Lab and Technology Demos
(SEPARATE RSVP HERE
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-aud-ideas-presents-wild-in-the-streets-lab-and-technology-demos-tickets-55285675945])
4:30 PM-6:30 PM: Presentations and Panel Discussion
_GREG LYNN, IDEAS Mobility Studio with Marta Nowak and Kaiho Yu_
_JEREMIE PAPON, R&D Imagineering Principal, Walt Disney Imagineering_
_MASASHI KAWASHIMA, Director of Asia Pacific Operations and Executive
Producer, Niantic, Inc. creators of Pokémon GO and Ingress_
_Moderator: NURIT KATZ, Chief Sustainability Officer/Executive
Officer, UCLA Facilities Management _
SPEAKERS
GREG LYNN, IDEAS MOBILITY STUDIO WITH MARTA NOWAK AND KAIHO YU
Named one of the 100 most innovative people in the world by Time
Magazine, Greg is a professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
and leads the IDEAS MOBILITY STUDIO. He is also the co-founder and
Chief Creative Officer of the Boston-based mobility company, Piaggio
Fast Forward. In addition to designing consumer products utilizing new
materials and manufacturing technologies with world-renound companies
like Vitra, Alessi, Nike and Swarovski. The author of nine books and
recipient of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Architecture
Award, Greg Lynn is considered to be among the 10 most influential
living architects by Forbes. Greg Lynn graduated from Princeton
University with a Masters in Architecture.
ABOUT THE IDEAS MOBILITY STUDIO
The IDEAS Mobility Studio is focused around the premise that
lightweight, intelligent electric mobility should enter architecture
and provoke a similar transformation that the elevator and escalator
provoked a century ago. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to
autonomous buses and cars, to autonomous aerial and land drones,
logistics and transportation is being reformulated rapidly. These new
forms of intelligent motion are impacting urban, suburban and rural
infrastructure. Students look at how structures are impacted by this
modernization, in particular, the interior circulation and building
envelope.
Jeremie Papon, R&D Imagineer Principal, Computer Vision and
Perception, Walt Disney Imagineering
Over the last 10 years, Jeremie has worked to bring intelligent
perception to machines in places as diverse as factory floors, rugged
roads, and the surface of Mars. These days, he is using machine
learning to bring magic to life in Disney’s parks and resorts. He
has publications in leading computer vision conferences and journals,
and has contributed to a number of open source projects in the space.
He wants to use innovative perception to allow machines to make
intelligent decisions at the edge, enabling experiences and
applications that would otherwise be impossible. Jeremie will be
presenting about "Pinocchio’s Promise – Bringing Characters to
Life with Machine Learning."
ABOUT WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING
Walt Disney Imagineering is the unique, creative force behind Walt
Disney Parks and Resorts that dreams up, designs and builds all Disney
theme parks, resorts, attractions, cruise ships, real estate
developments, and regional entertainment venues worldwide.
Imagineering’s unique strength comes from the dynamic global team of
creative and technical professionals building on the Disney legacy of
storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical
innovation and creativity.
Masashi Kawashima, Director of Asia Pacific operations and Executive
Producer, Niantic, Inc. creators of Pokémon GO and Ingress
Masa Kawashima began his career as a student at Waseda University. In
2000, he moved to Los Angeles and founded his first U.S. company. Masa
joined Google in 20017 where he led the Asia Pacific Webmaster team
and became the world’s first Japanese Google Doodle designer. Masa
grew to head up the global consumer product web design team as a
senior webmaster for Google. He is now the Director of Asia Pacific
Operations for Niantic, Inc., most notably known for the real-world AR
mobile experience, Pokémon GO. Masa will be presenting about
"Adventures on Foot."
ABOUT NIANTIC, INC.
Niantic, Inc., builds mobile real-world experiences that foster fun,
exploration, discovery and social interaction. Originally incubated
within Google, Niantic, Inc. spun out in 2015 with investments from
Google, The Pokémon Company, and Nintendo, and raised an additional
$200 million in financing in 2017 from Spark Capital, Founders Fund,
Meritech, Javelin Venture Partners, You & Mr. Jones and NetEase, Inc.
The company’s immersive Real World Platform powers the
ground-breaking augmented reality games Pokémon GO and Ingress Prime,
which are available on the App Store and Google Play. Harry Potter:
Wizard’s Unite is Niantic, Inc.’s third game and is being
co-developed with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. For more
information on Niantic, visit NianticLabs.com.
Panel Moderator: Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer/Executive
Officer, UCLA Facilities Management
UCLA’s first Chief Sustainability Officer, Nurit is working to
foster partnerships among academic, research, and operational
departments to create a world class living laboratory for
sustainability. Nurit also serves as Executive Officer for Facilities
Management, which provides a wide range of services including the
maintenance and renovation of building, grounds, and utility
infrastructure. Nurit is also an Instructor for UCLA Extension and
Lecturer for UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability.
Nurit holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, a
Masters in Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public
Affairs, and a BA in Environmental Education from Humboldt State
University.
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2019 IDEAS EVENT SERIES
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's IDEAS campus is an incubator for
collaborative, cross-disciplinary design research. Students and
faculty work with partners across entertainment, mobility, technology
and urban strategy applying the analytical and design processes of
architecture and urban design to emerging developments in these
industries. By engaging with experts from other fields, we expand
architecture’s field of influence and leverage design to propose
alternative, more intelligent futures.
The IDEAS Event Series looks beyond architecture’s traditional
boundaries to explore emerging trends in Los Angeles’ most creative
industries including technology, urbanism and entertainment. This
year’s events: “Wild in the Street” and “Spatial Computing”
will feature prominent academics and industry-leaders. As an
opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, speakers will present
cutting-edge research and engage in meaningful discussions about the
future of their fields and the roles they play in the evolution of
architecture and the urban environment.
The series will run from February 9 to May 11, 2019. Each event is
free to the public and will take place at the IDEAS CAMPUS. Can't
make our program on February 9? Check aud.ucla.edu
[http://www.aud.ucla.edu/] for updates on upcoming events in the 2019
IDEAS Event Series.
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