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16-12-2020

Online external critic, Final Reviews at the University of Pennsylvania / Weitzman School of Design, Philadelphia, USA. 
Host: Rob Stuart-Smith

5-6-11-2020
Presentation at Design with the Living Conference at the Design Museum, London UK. 
Organisers: Carole Collet; Bernard Hay; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Provocateurs: Emeka Okafor; Jeremy Till
Speakers: Jen Kaene; Phil Ayres; Yessica Mendez; Natalie Alima; Jenny Molloy; Jane Scott; Mitch Joachim; Claudia Pasquero; Paulo Bombelli; Sheila Cooke; Lucy Montgomery; Naomi Nakayama; Fernán Federici Noe; Nada Tarkhan; Irene Agrivina Widyanigrum; Flora Girard, Marcos Cruz



28-10-2020
INDUS v2.0 nominated for the Beasley Designs of the Year, in exhibition at the DESIGN MUSEUM, London.
Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Manufacturing: Richard Miller
Collaboration: Dali Al-Naeb, Tairan Lee
Team: Brenda Parker, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz



13-10-2020
Guest lecture 'Poikilohydric Design - Self-regulated growth in bio-integrated design' at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Host: Lucija Azman Momirski
Speakers: Andrew Witt, Molly Wright Steenson, Manuel Jimenez, Marcos Cruz


9-13-09-2020
Bio-ID 'Hyperobject' and 'Luminous Crust' as part of the London Garden of Heterotopias / Bartlett School of Architecture UCL at the Ars Electronica Festival (in Keplers Garden), Linz, Austria.
Bartlett curator: Fiona Zisch
Bio-ID Organiser: Nina Jotanovic
Bartlett Participants: Interactive Architecture Lab, Automated Architecture Ltd/Automated Architecture Labs, Bio-ID, Unit 24, Unit 9, RC14. In partnership with Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Jason Bruges Studio, ScanLAB Projects, and guests




22-07-2020
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for SPOSAD workshop, at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. 
Organiser: Shnee-Ren Liu



3-07-2020
Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 2, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube) 
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: ChingHwa Chang, Taipei; Carlos Hernandez Correa, Bogota; Natsai Chieza, London, Suzanne Lee, New York; Amy Congdon, New York; Cobus Bothma, London; Gary Lye, London; Andrew Porter, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz



2-07-2020
Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 1, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube)  
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Mitchel Joachim, New York; David Benjamin, New York; Jane Withers, London; George Katodrytis, Dubai; Claudia Pasquero, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz



22-06-2020
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz and Kunal Chadha Studio at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain. 
Students: Daria Ciobanu-Enescu; Hena Micoogullari; Pratik Girish Borse; Doruk Yildrim; Manan Jain; Logesh Mahalingam
Technical Support: Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Ana Goidea, Chiara Fariena, Nina Jotanovic, Areti Markopoulou; Alex Dubor, Raimund Krenmueller, Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda



12-06-2020
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) - London and New York offices 
Moderator: Cobus Bothma



11/12-06-2020
Bio-ID Year 1 CRIT, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK. 
Students: Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Bill Watts; Kunal Chadha; Carolina Ramirez; Barry Wark; Andreas Koerner; Iris Aquilina; Bogdan Zaha; Hina Lad; Damian Iliev; Deepak Rawat; Mauro Chiacchia; Gosia Pawlowska; Laura Stoffels; Bastian Bayer, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz




9-06-2020
Webinar presentation at the Concrete Futures, The Concrete Centre / Building Centre, London 
Speakers: Ciaran McNally, University College Dublin; Elizabeth Gilligan, Queen's University Belfast; Marcos Cruz, Bio-ID/UCL
Moderator/organiser: Elaine Toogood







22-05-2020
External Critic at CITA / Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), Copenhagen Denmark. 
Organiser: Paul Nicholas
Critics: Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, Marcos Cruz



27/28-05-2020
External Examiner at University College Cork (CCAE), Cork Ireland.
Head: Kevin McCartney
Examiners: Lorraine Farrelly, Reading University; John Parker, UCD; Marcos Cruz, Bartlett/UCL



26-04-2020
Poikilohydric Living Walls mentioned in the article 'Reasons to be cheerful: 11 great ideas from British universities that could change the world' by Rosie Kinchen and Katherine Forster, in THE SUNDAY TIMES, London UK. 
"All the externally exposed surfaces of buildings and urban infrastructures, from blank walls and facades to roofs, retaining barriers and fences, offer vast quantities of area to absorb and store water," says Marcos Cruz, Professor of Innovative Environments at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. The answer is "bio-integrated architecture", specifically walls friendly to poikilohydric plants - algae, mosses and lichens. These plants such up water and pollutants, pump out oxygen and, unlike traditional "green walls", can deal with lengthly dry spells. The team at UCL has developed a poikilohydric wall made of porous concrete, which is being tested in London at East Putney Tube station and a primary school in Lambeth.


Open until 31th July 2020
Bio-ID
Applications open for the MArch / MSc in Bio-Integrated Design, The Bartlett UCL,  London UK.
Instagram: Bio-ID

These two design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.



Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-ID combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.



Two distinct Bio-ID programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.

Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.



HIGHLIGHTS

•    Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design
•    Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication

•    Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications in architecture

KEY STAFF
•    Professor Marcos Cruz (Programme Director MArch and MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)
•    Dr Brenda Parker (Programme Director MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)
•    Javier Ruiz (Year 1/2 Tutor / Computation)
•    Nina Jotanovic (Year 1 tutor)
•    Shneel Malik (Year 1 tutor)
•    Anete Salmane (Bio-ID lab)
•    Dr Bastian Beyer (Year 2 tutor)
•    Dr Harry Watkins (Year 1 tutor / Thesis)
•    Shogo Suzuki (Year 1 computation)

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

•    Please check the Bartlett website for more information
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc


3/4/5-03-2020
Poikilohydric Living Wall panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2020, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - Concrete Futures / Remixed, London UK.
Organisation: The Concrete Centre
Venue: ExCeL centre, London
Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.
Biology: Alex Lacatusu, Giovanna Lanius-Pascuzzi
Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited
Speaker: Dr Brenda Parker
Photo credit: Brenda Parker

03-03-2020
Poikilohydric Living Walls published in Concrete Futures (cover and mentioned in article by Tony Whitehead), The Concrete Centre, London UK. 


23-02-2020
Bartlett Bio-ID and PhD candidate, Shneel Malik, presents INDUS project at TEDxGateway, Mumbai India. 
Photo credit: TEDxGatway


27-01-2019
Presentation at CNIE - advisory board conference, London UK. 
Venue: Prince Room, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP
Lead of CNIE/introduction: Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens (UCL Chemical Engineering)
Speakers: Prof Eugene Goldfield (Harvard); Prof Philip Treveaven (UCL Computer Science); Prof Richard Day (UCL Medical Sciences); Prof Marcos Cruz (UCL The Bartlett); Prof Hugh Stitt (Johnson Matthey); Dr Niall Kent; Malica Schmidt; Matthew Chin; Dr Nazanin Owji; Dr Ye Yang; Dr Yang Lan; Dr Jason Cho
Guest Speakers: Anna Liu (Tonkin Liu)


January 2020
Publication of Poikilohydric Living Walls / Marcos Cruz, in Étapes pp.168-170, Paris France. 
Text: Leo Bufi
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Photo credit (walls): Sarah Lever

10-01-2020
External Examination / PhD VIVA of Dr Areti Markopoulou - Design Behaviours / Programming the Material World for Resposnive Architecture (Cum Laude), at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAB), Barcelona Spain. 
Examiners: Marcos Cruz (Chair); Jose Ballesteros (deputy chair); Jaime Coll (secretary); Jaume Valor (deputy secretary); Lydia Kallipoloti; Javier Nieto; Ignacio Borrego; 
Supervisors: Eduardo Bru, Manuel Gausa
Photo credit: Mathilde Marengo