Encoding Experience in Boston and San Francisco

After posting several times about our recent trip to the US – with stops in Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco – it’s time to talk about the broader purpose of the tour.

My team has been organizing a series of evening events called “Encoding Experience”, with the primary goal of bringing together a community of interest around capturing the human experience of the built environment. We invited interesting people from academia and industry to come together and have a discussion about how we might start to quantify and simulate human experience.

Our first event was in Boston on April 26th. Prudence Robinson and team transformed the 2nd floor of the Technology Center. It looked amazing.

In addition to Pru, a number of Autodesk Research members were present. In this photo (left to right) you can see Dagmara Szkurlat, Ray Wang, me, Jacky Bibliowicz and Matthew Spremulli. Jiyoo Joe took most of the photos from Boston, including this one:

Waiting for people to arrive.

We’d met with a number of the guests…

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