ITA Open Talks restart
Professor Maria Yablonina opens the Spring Semester talks.
Every semester, ITA invites leading figures, practioners, academics, and researchers from the fields of architecture, engineering, design, or industry to contribute to interdisciplinary discussions on the future of the making of the built environment, and on related societal issues such as digitalisation, resource efficiency, and energy transition.
Our talks are open to our ITA community, the broader ETH community, as well as to the public - all those interested in the topics we engage in.
ITA Open Talks are organised by faculty, researchers, and students here at the Institute of Technology in Architecture - we thank everyone for their initiative.
The Spring Semester 2025 talks opened with external page Maria Yablonina, Assistant Professor at John H.Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. She is an architect, researcher, and artist working in the field of computational design and digital fabrication. Her work lies at the intersection of architecture and robotics, producing spaces and robotic systems that can construct themselves and change in real-time.
The inspirational talk entitled "Not not collaborating", allowed us to view a whole spectrum of her projects that principally focus on mobile, small-scale robots capable of inhabiting and responding to an architectural space and thereby altering it.
This talk was initiated by Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger with the MAS ETH DFAB programme team.