{"id":1668,"date":"2021-12-25T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/?page_id=1668"},"modified":"2022-01-09T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T07:38:37","slug":"smuts-carson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/smuts-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Smuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover pt-70 pb-70 pt-xs-50 pb-xs-50 rella-no-margin    content-section-69e69b5ac7b5b\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-12\">[vc_empty_space]<section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover rella-no-padding rella-no-margin    content-section-69e69b5ac7f74\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-1\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-3\"><div  class=\"full-block align-left\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Carson_Smuts_cropped.jpg\"  width=\"502\" height=\"502\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-6\"><h1  class=\" special-text  custom-font-properties-69e69b5ac8771\">Carson Smuts<\/h1><h2  class=\"section-title  mb-70 mb-sm-40 font-alt align-left\" >Academic Staff + Board of Directors<\/h2>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" style=\"color:#000000;\"><p><b>Carson Smuts<\/b> is a South African-born architect and graduate of UCT and Columbia University (MSAAD &#8211; Masters of Science Advanced Architectural Design, 2011, New York). Both designer and researcher, his work focuses on the societal impact of technology.<\/p>\n<p>Currently a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Carson specializes in city science and the development of urban interventions and design instruments. He leads the development of the MIT\u2019s Environmental Sensor (TerMITes) project at MIT\u2019s CityScience lab. His recent work involves data analysis, embedded systems, desktop and mobile programming, computer vision, industrial design\/fabrication, interface design, and robotic architecture.<\/p>\n<p>His recent professional academic experience includes his time as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York, where he taught architectural studio with Mario Gooden and Mabel Wilson. Having learnt robotics and programming during his time at Columbia and MIT, his interests turned towards technologies applicable to the relationship between architectural space and body &#8211; specifically interfaces between users and machines in an urban context and the liminal spaces of society where equity, or lack thereof, in technological systems is often overlooked. This includes his PhD candidacy and work with Prof. No\u00ebleen Murray, chair in critical architecture and urbanism at the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>Carsons specializes in algorithmic architecture and the development of parametric software for the global architectural community. He brings an authentic approach to the design studio which combines analogue and digital processes to spatialize urban <span data-dobid=\"hdw\">phenomena. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-2\"><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Staff + Board of Directors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1668\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}