This blog has been really quiet, as I have been away for trips in October-November and writing papers in November-December.
Sometime in the middle of November, I receive two awards which are quite a nice surprise!
In short these were my activities in the past few months:
- 20-24 October 2010: Conference attendance and paper presentation at ACADIA 2010 held in the Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York. Hugo Mulder and I presented a paper written by the two of us and Przemek Jaworski about the outcomes of the Parametrics and Physical Interactions cluster we run earlier this year in SmartGeometry 2010. The paper is one of the 36 papers selected from 300 submissions.
- 28-31 October 2010: Giving invited talks at the Digital Fabrication workshop and conference in University of Malaga, Spain.
- 2-5 November 2010: Software development workshops at Brisbane for an ongoing ARC Linkage.
- 12-22 November 2010: Annual leave in Jakarta! Staying @ my parents’ while having a restful break.
- end of November – December: writing research papers and 3 weeks of summer teaching of FIT3128 at Monash in the evenings. Managed to be lead/co- authors of six full conference papers, three abstracts, and one journal article submitted during this period. My journal article submitted for ITCON a while ago was accepted for publication in January 2011. Yay!
Sometime in the middle of November, I was selected as a recipient of these awards (thank God!):
- IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Awards 2010 for the transdisciplinary project I’m leading: ”Two Cities as a Living Lab: Project-based and research-led teaching of socio-technical pedagogical approaches in designing for the cities’ wicked problems”, with team members: Susu Nousala, Margaret Hamilton, Marsha Berry, and Jane Burry.
- RMIT Ian Permezel Award 2010 for an Early Career Researcher to travel and present at an international conference.
I was receiving my award in RMIT Teaching and Research Awards Event 2010.
2010 has been a great year. Lots of writing, coding, publishing, travelling, failing, debugging, testing, and definitely lots of learning! It has been a year with a great learning curve and amazing experiences and I’m really grateful about it.
I’ll get back on full steam of posting to the blogs after Christmas!
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