COUNTDOWN: 5 DAYS TO GO 🌊🤖🌿
Contextual Intelligence: Biomimicry, AI, and the Land–Water Interface
Join us at the edge—where land meets water, and design meets ecology. This 4-day online workshop explores how AI-based ideation, biomimicry, and parametric tools can decode and reimagine coastal systems. Work in pairs across QGIS, Rhino + Grasshopper, and generative AI (Midjourney / xFigura) to produce your own “context-driven” architectural strategies.
Dates: 21, 22, 28 FEB & 1 MAR
Time: 6–9PM HKT (Zoom)
Level: Intermediate
The sessions combine mapping, modeling, and reflection—turning environmental intelligence into creative action.
🗺️ Decode data | 🌿 Translate biology | 💻 Design with AI
Instructors:
Nabi Agzamov | Carlos Rivera | Jing Chang | Provides
@nabiagzam@carlosrivsal@__cc__jj__@provides.ism
🔗 Register now: https://forms.gle/KvmVZHa36tGNZjxV7
@uabbhk Techformance at EKCC Now Open ｜登陸東九文化中心
The wait is over: Techformance has officially launched at East Kowloon Cultural Centre.
Wander through the light-filled concourse, explore large-scale structures, media installations, and AI-driven urban futures, and see how technology and architecture come together as a live performance.
Drop by EKCC and experience this new chapter of UABB 2025 in person.
#UABB2025 #Techformance #EKCC #NowOpen #HongKong @aroniib@jimmytwho@adelinechm@mrowenlam
《建科盛典── 2025 香港深圳城市\ 建築雙城雙年展》東九文化中心展場現已正式開幕。
走進高樓大堂之間，在光影與結構穿梭，感受大型裝置、媒體作品與AI城市想像如何把建築變成一場現場展演。歡迎親臨 EKCC一起見證 UABB 2025 展開全新篇章。
Presented by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation
“Techformance–2025 Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (UABB 2025)” Explore new ways of living where technology meets art
Now Opened at Oil Street Art Space and East Kowloon Cultural Centre till 24 Jan — join us on a futuristic journey through the city
香港建築師學會雙年展基金會主辦《建科盛典── 2025 香港深圳城市\ 建築雙城雙年展》
北角油街實現展場 (Oi!) 及東九文化中心(EKCC) 展場均已開幕，即日起登場至1月24日。
誠邀你一起於科技與藝術交織的城市裡，探索生活的新樣貌
One post before I fall asleep.
To what blessing do I owe this universe to have such a talented, passionate, supportive, caring, and responsible group of mentors, TSL, guests, judges, volunteers, social workers, and students contributing day and night to this non-profit initiative.
My gratefulness in beyond words and however the future of @digital_commons_ will go, I hope it can truly become a platform for everyone to shine.
My biggest thanks is to our organising team, as well to our media, creative, and operation team, without whom this would not be possible.
Last but not least, we were very lucky to have along the way sponsors, partners, and schools who really understand the significance and care about the project and I hope we can join forces to provide more interdisciplinary education as well as highlighting the importance of architectural knowledge for citizens in a high density, climatic future.
Team Terra - Bio Installation at Saisha, Hong Kong
Eco-tourism x Habitat Structural Complexity🪸🪸🌊🌊
Structural complexity is widely recognized as important for biodiversity because it creates shelter, surfaces for attachment, and microhabitats across scales.
Organisms like corals and mangroves provide structurally complex habitats that support many organisms and host rich species assemblages. Their intricate topologies provide living space, shelter, and ecological niches that sustain local food webs.
In contrast, conventional hard shoreline engineering often simplifies intertidal edges into flat, uniform surfaces, reducing habitat heterogeneity. Research on hardened shorelines also shows that artificial, smooth surfaces often provide less complexity than natural shores, and seawalls in particular can reduce biodiversity relative to natural shorelines.
In ecology research, biodiversity depends not just on surface area but on geometry, roughness, crevices, tidal niches, and connectivity among microhabitats.
Our participants explored how small, targeted interventions can reintroduce complexity—rebuilding surface area and ecological potential along intertidal zones.
@provides.ism@digital_commons_@ambrose.yuen@os0rrow
Count down 48 hours to our Design Scientist 2026 Incubation Program Spring Cohort Final Showcase! Our team is working hard to bring this to life.
Bio-material prototypes, kinetic installations, and 8 teams of nature based solutions proposal.
Come support our youth designers at CUHK Innoport UGA this Sunday at 2pm!
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Salute to our super team
@esthertingchan@notwendychoi@patpat.pmso@__cc__jj__@yin_weihao@hollis.hui
ReRoot incorporates bio-design and a circular approach to explore biodegradable infrastructures made with mycelium-based scaffolding, offering an innovative solution to direct tree root growth while attenuating, retaining, and filtering stormwater runoff.
Inspired by root networks, the system acts as adaptive infrastructure, slowing water, improving soil health, and responding to flood-prone landscapes. Terrain and hydrological data are translated into emergent, site-specific growth patterns that guide form rather than impose it.
As the scaffold naturally decomposes, it returns nutrients to degraded farmland, while crushed shells and soil amendments help neutralise the acidity of yellow soils, supporting long-term regeneration and ecological resilience. Designed for real-world application, ReRoot envisions porous biodegradable structures that can be buried within the soil to support plant growth and reduce stormwater runoff.
ReRoot V.2
@notwendychoi@provides.ism
Super happy to form a longer term collaboration with our bio-material partner MedPHA in 2026 🤝
MedPHA is an innovative developer and manufacturer of premium medical-grade PHA biomaterials, dedicated to advancing synthetic biology and fully biodegradable material solutions.
We hope to work together to promote the circular economy using renewable PHA bio-based material and drive sustainable innovation, low-carbon development, and plastic pollution reduction across industries 🌱♻️
#zero #carbon #future #sustainability
