Karla Saldaña Ochoa is an Ecuadorian architect with a Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture from ETH Zurich. In June 2021, she finished her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, which investigated the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence to have a precise and agile response to natural disasters. Saldaña Ochoa is a tenure-track assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida where her teaching and research focus on investigating the interplay of AI and human intelligence in architectural practices at building and urban scales.

Saldaña Ochoa is the leading researcher at the Spatial Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research & Experimentation (SHARE) Lab, a research group focused on developing human-centered AI projects on design practices. The research of the lab focuses on the relationship between human intelligence and AI, knowing that one complements the other, with AI being able to augment human physical and intellectual capabilities. SHARE Lab work aims to address how architects might include such technologies in a design workflow while preserving their role as a creative entity.

+++more on Saldaña Ocho’s work:
www.ai-share-lab.com

+++links to resources mentioned in the episode:
*** On Defining Artificial Intelligence
*** Beyond typologies, beyond optimization: Exploring novel structural forms at the interface of human and machine intelligence.
*** Atlas of AI.

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