Asad Khan, Teaching Fellow in Design Informatics
Dr Asad Khan is a design researcher and computational architect. He runs the Entropy Project, a transdisciplinary practice, that combines field research, remote sensing, data science, machine learning, and architectural simulations into an augmented interface, to develop forensic-grade, immersive informatics of territories exposed to slow-acting and oblique forms of existential risks, anthropogenic violence and ecological warfare.
He has developed research and creative work for organisations including Cyark Heritage, Oxford Futures of Humanity Institute, Forensic Architecture, Creative Informatics, and the National Library of Scotland. His work has been showcased at prestigious venues, including the Venice Biennale, Liste Fair, Future Lab, Ars Electronica, Talbot Rice, and the Pejman Foundation.
He co-leads the award-winning Radical Harvest architecture studio at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture with a focus on live-build projects using salvaged materials in collaboration with local charities and social enterprises. He is a guest lecturer and workshop organiser at the Pratt Institute, Bartlett UCL, and SCI-Arc amongst others.
He holds a practice-led PhD in Architecture (2021) from the University of Edinburgh.
Research interests:
- Existential risk design research
- Planetary-scale computational systems
- Field research and design in-situ
- Forensic-grade design for socio-environmental justice
- Data-driven immersive installations
- Human-AI-interaction design.