Chris Speed:

Chris Speed is currently a Senior Lecturer, a Researcher in A∑Tec and a creative producer in i-DAT. Speed’s research focus is best characterised by his PhD activity which addresses the synthesis and tensions between Social Navigation, Digital Architecture and Human Geography.

Operating as a ‘maker’ he has recently returned from an artists residency programme at Unitec, Auckland, where the work ‘Reading Rooms’ (http://x.i-dat.org/speed/readingrooms) was developed to visualise how a building might look if its architecture reflected the books that its inhabitants were reading.

Operating in real-time the system combined social and architectural data with dynamic 3D computer modelling to generate a ‘social’ map of a place.