Karla Saldaña Ochoa is an Ecuadorian architect with a Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture from ETH Zurich. In June 2021, she finished her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, which investigated the integration of Artificial and Human Intelligence to have a precise and agile response to natural disasters. Since August 2021, Karla is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida; her teaching and research focus on investigating the interplay of Artificial and Human Intelligence in architectural practices at building and urban scale.

Karla is the leading researcher at SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing human-centered AI projects on design practices. The acronym SHARE stands for Spatial Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research & Experimentation. The research of the lab focuses on the relationship between human and artificial intelligence, knowing that one complements the other, with AI being able to augment human physical and intellectual capabilities. SHARE Lab work aims to address the following question: how architects might include such technologies in a design workflow while preserving their role as a creative entity?

+++more on Karla's work:
www.ai-share-lab.com

+++links to resources mentioned in the episode:
On Defining Artificial Intelligence
Beyond typologies, beyond optimization: Exploring novel structural forms at the interface of human and machine intelligence.
Atlas of AI.

///episode artwork details:
Beyond, courtesy of SHARE lab.

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