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For the critical practice track at the ICSA symposium in 2022 an installation was designed and built with dynamically bent thin glass. The installation served as a prototypical setup to investigate the potential use of thin glass in adaptive building facades.

An investigation into the theory of Material Engagement—proposed by the philosopher Lambros Malafouris at the University of Oxford—led to a rediscovery of sorts of the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht.

The built environment is increasingly reliant on information technology in all the stages of its life cycle. Design is informed by large data sets and conducted with digital design tools. Design documentation in Building Information Models is supporting construction and during the operational phase of buildings artificial intelligence in Building Management Systems optimises the building's performance. This infusion with information technology has led to notions of smart, intelligent and cognitive buildings that adapt to their users' needs and reduce overall energy consumption.