Dr Chris Speed is a Reader in Digital Architecture in the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art 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’ 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.
