Meta Berghauser Pont

Full Professor at Urban Design and Planning. Chalmers University of Technology.

Meta Berghauser Pont is professor of urban morphology and urban design at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
She leads the research area SMoG (Spatial Morphology Group), which is engaged in research in the areas of urban morphology, space syntax and design theory.
Through primarily analytical and quantitative methods, properties of built form are described and its significance for people's (and other species') use and experience of the city is investigated.
Meta has published the book Spacematrix. Space, Density and Urban Form (2023) where the concept of density is critically examined.
The book specifies the relationship between density and urban form as well as the environmental, economic and social effects of density.
In addition to research, Meta teaches urban design.
She is also the Head of program for Architecture with responsibility for the educational development of architectural education at bachelor's and master's level.

Wassim Jabi

Professor and Chair of Computational Methods in Architecture.
Course Leader, MSc Computational Methods in Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

Wassim Jabi is the course director of the MSc Computational Methods in Architecture programme at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University in Wales.
His research interests are in digital design methods, in particular, the use of digital tools in the conception and representation of architectural space, parametric design investigations, building performance simulation, robotics, and fabrication.
His main expertise is in parametric design, algorithmic architecture, digital and robotic fabrication, digital lighting, and energy-building simulation.
He earned his MArch and PhD from the University of Michigan and taught at various universities in the USA before moving to the UK, in 2008.
While teaching in the USA, he secured a National Science Foundation grant as a Primary Investigator.
Professor Jabi has published widely on topics ranging from parametric and generative design to the role of light in architecture and building performance simulation.
He has authored a book titled “Parametric Design for Architecture” (Laurence King Publishing, London).
In 2013, Professor Jabi won funding from the university’s internal competitive funding scheme to purchase a large 6-axis high-accuracy industrial robot to investigate innovative digital fabrication processes.
His current research is at the intersection parametric design, the representation of space, building performance simulation, machine learning, and robotic fabrication in architecture.
Professor Jabi has recently concluded a grant from the Leverhulme Trust as Primary Investigator to study spatial topology in building information modeling (BIM), which resulted in a software library called Topologic.