CARL Talk Series: Materials

Join us for the third iteration of our CARL Talk Series, where we invite leading academics and industry experts to present their work and research around a given theme, followed by an informal Q+A and refreshments. Talk_03: Materials: How new modes of making can support sustainability strategies in construction? Invited Speakers: A/Prof Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira Associate Professor in Interior Design, School of Architecture and Built Environment, QUT Associate Professor Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira is an award-winning researcher whose work explores how digital fabrication and biomaterials can reshape sustainable design. Her work focuses on adopting advanced manufacturing, experimentally investigating digital fabrication and circular materials using collaborative robots, and integrating AI into design and construction. Dr Ahmed Sakr Sessional Academic and practitioner, School of Architecture and Built Environment, QUT Ahmed Sakr is a sessional academic, researcher and practitioner whose work combines sustainable design, digital fabrication, and material reuse. His research explores the use of by-products and waste materials in additive manufacturing to create functional façade elements, directed toward reducing waste and improving environmental performance in the built environment. Adrian Taylor Regenerative Lead, BVN Architecture Adrian Taylor is the Regenerative Lead at BVN. Drawing on over a decade of applied research in architectural practice and academia, he connects designers with the tools and expertise to eliminate carbon, increase circularity, and restore habitat. Adrian believes the key to achieving regeneration is shifting our perspective on value, from sunk costs to intergenerational investments.