Urban Dystopias

Professor Jane Burry is the Dean of the School of Design in the Faculty of Health Arts and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, formerly Professor and Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University. Professor Burry is lead author of The New Mathematics of Architecture, T&H, 2010, editor of Designing the Dynamic, Melbourne Books, 2013 and coauthor of Prototyping for Architects, T&H 2016 and has over a hundred other publications. In 2020, she co-chaired and coedited Fabricate 2020, Making Resilient Architecture. She has practiced, taught, supervised and researched internationally, including many architectural projects and involvement as a project architect in the technical office at Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família church in Barcelona. Professor Marcus White is an award-winning architect and urban designer, Professor of Urban Design at Swinburne University of Technology, the director of the Spatio-Temporal Research Urban Design and Architecture Laboratory in the Centre for Design Innovation, and is a director of Harrison and White. His research focuses on designing for liveability using data and emerging technologies. Professor White is the creator of pedestrian network analysis tool www.pedestriancatch.com web platform. He recently led the City of Melbourne 3D Sunlight Study of Public Open Space study with interactive solar map, www.citiesofligh.xyz).