Hi, my name is Diogo Pereira Henriques, and I’m a creative technologist, designer, researcher, educator, and learner; between East and West, North and South: always looking forward to global positive change!

International experience: I have been working in several research, teaching, and project management positions in Europe and Asia, for example at: the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University (Denmark); the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR); the University of the West of England (UK); Barcelona Tech - UPC (Spain); Studio Fuksas - Rome (Italy); Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands); and the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

Programming/ software: Processing, Python, Java, C+, CSS, HTML; Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, XD); 3D modelling (Blender, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, SketchUp); Nvivo, Miro, Canva, Wordpress, GIS and developing open data tools.

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish (Professional proficiency); Dutch, Catalan, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese (Basic proficiency).

Email: < diogo_ph at proton dot me >

Selected Projects / Events

The Synthetic City conference 2023

As YECREA representative, co-organisation with Scott Rogers (Birbeck, University of London), Marcos Dias (Dublin City University), and Lou Therese Brandner (University of Tübingen), of the The Synthetic City international conference, hosted by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, at Dublin City University, Ireland, 2023.

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How can AI art enhance diversity and inclusion?

Invited talk in “AI art” event co-organised by the Turing Institute and City, University of London, UK, 2023.

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ECo-lab AI: Ethics and Climate Action with Artificial Intelligence

In the early stages of a collab project about the design of (hybrid) inclusive spaces, Inclusive Policy Lab, UNESCO, 2023.

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ATU Fokus Citizen Science, Open Day for High-School Students at Aarhus University, Denmark: Wikipedia as Citizen Science, 2023

Originally designed in 1975 by the Danish activist Anne Lund in collaboration with Søren Lisberg, in Aarhus, the logo of the “Smiling Sun” has been used for more than forty years now, and it has become a powerful visual symbol for the global anti-nuclear war and energy protest movement. Broadly reflecting on Wikipedia as open science and citizen science, we aim to co-create a Wikipedia page about Anne Lund. Similar to a hackathon, a Wiki edit-a-thon event tries to raise awareness of the importance of online references, here focusing on this anti-nuclear activist pioneer with a hands-on and citizen science approach at ATU Fokus Citizen Science 2023, online.

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1st prize winners in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN Webfest (hackathon), Geneva, Switzerland: Next-generation data visualization for climate action, 2022

Experimental, collaborative, and open source software project with data scientists Carlos Vivar Ríos (Université de Lausanne) and Colas Droin (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), aiming to save energy through open data and advance science towards collaboration and climate action, presented and awarded the 1st prize in the CERN Webfest 2022, online.

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3D Media Objects: Augmented reality on Aarhus University campus, Aarhus, Denmark, 2022-2023

This ongoing project creatively explores how advances in augmented reality (AR) can change the experience of news and media on the campus of Aarhus University, for students, staff, and visitors.

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Searching for Neon Templates in Asia and Europe, 2019-Present

This ongoing project examines how the creation and development of neon lighting have impacted the cultural, social, environmental, and future imaginaries of multicultural cities in Asia and Europe. It also creatively explores how advances in machine learning and AI can augment visual and hybrid templates of neon lighting with postcolonial visions. Presented at the 4S-ESOCITE conference 2022, at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, Mexico, December 7-10, 2022.

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Future Architecture Fellowship, 2021-2022

Selected to participate in the Creative Exchange 2021 Landscapes of Care, one of the first major events dedicated to conversations about the New European Bauhaus and the European Green Deal, under the European Architecture Program and co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Recently featured in the Future Architecture book, published by MAO Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (2021), and also financed by the European Union.

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Augmenting Photography with Digital Tools, 2019-Present

This ongoing project creatively explores how advances in machine learning and AI can influence photography and creativity, particularly elusive effects as night light and snow, lensflares, artificial light, etc.

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Nexus Network Journal: social media and website; Nexus Association new website and online strategy, 2019-Present

Since 2019, I have also been the social media editor and member of the Editorial Board of the Nexus Network Journal (NNJ), in the fields of architecture and mathematics. Published in print by Birkhäuser and online at Springer, the NNJ has been: (a) Q1 in Visual Arts by Scimago; (b) recognized for Editorial Excellence by Springer Nature; and (c) number 2 in the Springer Math journals catalog, for downloads in 2020; and (d) a top publication in Social Sciences / Architecture by Google Scholar.

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Visualizing Futures: UK Government Office for Science / Future of Cities Foresight Project, UK, 2015-1016

At the Faculty of Engineering, Northumbria University, I worked as a senior research assistant , winning a research grant to develop future scenario visualizations to support knowledge exchange and public engagement activities, with a team of 2 colleagues for this research project, commissioned by the UK Government Office for Science and Future of Cities Foresight Project.

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Graphic & Web Designer - Editorial and Communication Office, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2014

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Interactive Visualizer: National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012-2013

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Models Workshop, International Projects, Competitions: Fuksas Studio Rome, Italy, 2009-2010

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Interactive Tram with Data Visualization: Jose Adriao architects, Lisbon, Portugal 2008

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Models Workshop, On-site Management: Josep Mias Architects, Barcelona, Spain 2007

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Recent Webinars / Invited Talks

2023

WASP-HS “AI, Education and Children”, invited participant in the online event and roundtable “How Can We Ensure Algorithmic Fairness to Protect Children?”, organised by the Wallenberg Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, Umeå University, Sweden, April 19, 2023.

3rd Interoperable Europe SEMIC workshop on Personal Data Spaces, invited participant in the (in-person) workshop to co-create the vision and roadmap 2023-2025 for Interoperable Europe, organised by PwC and supported by the European Commission, Ghent, Belgium, March 31, 2023.

Bad Game Arcade: A Symposium all about Educational Games, invited panelist in the ‘Super-Effective Facilitation: How do we reach the right audience?’ hybrid panel, organised by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 23-27, 2023.

2022

Art Entangled, invited panelist in ‘World Quantum Day 2022 webinar’, initiated by CERN and locally co-organised by CONNECT Centre Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Center for Quantum Networks, University of Arizona, USA, April 14, 2022.

Creativity and Math as a Common Language, invited (online) talk in the Art and Math Seminar Spring 2022, organised by the Department of Mathematics at Kansas State University, USA, February 24, 2022.

2021

Participation, Participation, Participation, invited (online) talk in the Kosovo Architecture Festival (KAF) 2021, organised under the theme of Alter-Nation by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Future Architecture Platform, held online on September 28, 2021.

KAF is dedicated to conversations about the New European Bauhaus and the European Green Deal, under the European Architecture Programme and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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Key Publications and Conference Presentations

Henriques, D.P. (2023) “Envisioning a new synthetic city? A reflection on AI text-to-video generators, creativity, and our future urban visions” to be presented at The Synthetic City: Potentials, Politics and Everyday Life conference 2023. Dublin City University, Ireland, hosted by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, 6-7 Sep, 2023, and to be published in the post-conference proceedings. More info.

Henriques, D.P. (2023) “’Nuclear Power? No Thanks!’: the Smiling Sun logo and other graphic designs in the anti-nuclear global protests since the 1970s”, presented at the 2nd Colonial & Postcolonial Landscapes Congress, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, January 18-20, 2023. More info.

Henriques, D.P. (2022) “Searching for Neon Templates in Asia and Europe”, presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) / Associación Latino Americana de Estudios Sociales (ESOCITE) 2nd Joint Meeting 2022, with the theme ‘Reunion, recuperation, reconfiguration: Knowledges and technosciences for living together’, in Cholula/Puebla, México, December 7-10, 2022. Available online.

Raetzsch, C., Henriques, D.P., Hamm, A. and Shibuya, Y. (2022) ”Journalism and the Democratic Interface: From Data Dashboards to Participatory Infrastructures”, presented at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA 2022), 19-22 October 2022, Aarhus, Denmark.

Henriques, D.P. (2022) “Collide, Accelerate, and Invite Artists as Guests: 10 years of art and science collaborations at CERN”, in Book of Abstracts EASST 2022 Politics of Technoscientific Futures, Madrid, Spain, July 6-9, 2022. Madrid: European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, p. 359. Available online.

Rodgers, P.A., Innella, G., Bremner, C., Coxon, I., Cadamuro, A., Carleklev, S., Chan, K., Dilnot, C., Fathers, J., Fennell, J., Fremantle, C., French, T., Henriques, D.P., Jones, P.L., Kettley, R., Kettley, S., Khan, M., Logge, K., Archer-Martin, J., Pulley, R., Shahar, D., Tewari, S., Treadaway, C., Tsekleves, E., Valadkeshyaei, H.M., Ventura, J., Wiltse, H. and Winton, E. (2019) “The Lancaster Care Charter”, Design Issues, 35 (1), Winter 2019, pp. 73-77. Available online.

Henriques, D.P., Dalton, R. C. and Greenhalgh, P. (2017) “Measuring the impact of future visions through card sorting: from user experience to participatory planning (a pilot study)”, in J. Verbeke (ed.) Urban Living Labs for Public Space – A New Generation of Planning? Proceedings of the Incubators conference at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels 10-11 April 2017. Brussels: KU Leuven, pp. 121-128. Recently cited by another conference paper written by colleagues from NASA (Litaker and Howard, 2023).

Henriques, D.P. (2017) “Emerging patterns of change for tomorrow’s cities”, in M. Costa, F. Roseta, J. Lages and S. Costa (eds) Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges: Proceedings of the 10th EAAE ARCC International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-18 June 2016. London: CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 01, pp. 27-32. ISBN: 9781138029668. Available online.

Henriques, D.P. (2013) “Space time information on display: smart devices and spatial cognition”, in H. Bartolo et al. (eds) Green Design, Materials and Manufacturing Processes. London: CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 519-523. ISBN: 9781138000469. Available online.

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Teaching

Overall, I have significant experience in bridging teaching, research and practice, developed at internationally recognised universities in Europe and Asia. At Aarhus University, Denmark, I supported the evaluations and development of an innovative curriculum for a new ‘smart’ cities course at the Master’s level, and the development of materials for a new course for 2022-2023. Furthermore, I supervised Master’s and Undergraduate (international) students, with the ability to motivate them to publish and present their studies at international conferences. For example, with an undergraduate student from Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences (Aarhus BSS), we co-wrote a conference paper on start-ups developing games in Budapest and Copenhagen, presented at the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Moreover, at the University of the West of England (UWE), UK, I designed, developed and produced multiple learning and teaching materials, with a Linking Teaching & Research grant titled ‘Visualising Sustainability in Design Studios,’ for BSc Architecture, BEng Architecture and Environmental Engineering, and BA Architecture and Planning programmes. Furthermore, at the School of Creative Media, City University of Kong Kong, HK SAR, I launched an interdisciplinary research project linking art and artificial intelligence, including the development of curriculum for a new undergraduate course; with a grant from the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (ACIM). Finally, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, I conducted user analysis of a visualisation prototype software, alongside colleagues from the Faculty of Computer Science, through usability workshops with students and the integration of research in a course module ‘Computational Processes’ for 2nd-year undergraduate students in Design, Interior Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning, at the School of Architecture. Following this research, I would also be part of the supervision team support for one student with a mobility disability (i.e. using a wheelchair in his daily life), for his MSc dissertation in Computer Science, at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Invited Guest Lecture AI and Text to Image models in the course “Structures” led by Assistant Professor Markus Matthias Hudert Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark 2023

Participation as Critic in the Final Project Demos and Presentations of the course “Aesthetic Programming” led by Associate Professor Winnie Soon Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark 2022

Participation as Critic in the Final Project Presentations of the course “Smart Cities” led by Associate Professor Christoph Raetzsch Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark 2022

Linking Teaching & Research Grant “Visualizing Sustainability in Design Studios”, with BSc Architecture, BEng Architecture and Environmental Engineering, and BA Architecture and Planning Programmes Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England, United Kingdom 2020

Development of Curriculum for a New Undergraduate Course on AI and Art, as part of a research project in the same areas with a grant from the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (ACIM) School of Creative Media, City University of Kong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 2019

Invited Jury Member of the Committee for International MArch Programme Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven/Ghent, Belgium 2019

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Service

Media, Cities and Space section representative, Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA), since 2023

Social Media Editor and Corresponding Editor of the Nexus Network Journal (NNJ), since 2019

Developing strategies that support open access and broad dissemination of research articles in the field of mathematics and architecture, particularly through the website and social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram), with the following achievements since 2019: (a) recognized for editorial excellence by Springer Nature in 2024, 2023, and 2021; (b) ranked number 2 in the Springer Math journals catalog for downloads in 2020; (c) ranked Q1 in Visual Arts by Scimago; (d) ranked top publication in social sciences/ architecture by Google Scholar between 2019-2020. Also, developing and maintaining strong relationships with the editors in chief, corresponding editors, authors, prospective authors, and external partners/ publishers Springer Nature and Birkhäuser.

Scientific Reviewer for the Nexus Network Journal (Springer), Architectural Science Review and the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (Taylor & Francis), and Press Start (University of Glasgow) 2019-Present

Member of the Review Committee of the 42th Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) Conference 2024 University of Cyprus, Cyprus 2024

Member of the Review Committee of the 10th European Communication Conference (ECC), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) 2024 University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2024

Member of the Review Committee of the 41th Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) Conference 2023 TU Graz, Austria 2023

Member of the Review Committee of the CAAD Futures Conference 2023 TU Delft, the Netherlands 2023

Member of the Review Committee of the 40th Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) Conference 2022 KU Leuven/Ghent, Belgium 2022

Invited Member of the Review Committee of the 4th International Conference of Biodigital Architecture & Genetics (BIODIG) 2020 UIC, Barcelona 2019

Organising Committee Member for the Engineering & Environment Postgraduate Conference 2018 Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK 2018

Assistant of the Organising Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing (SIM) 2013 University of Lisbon, Portugal 2013

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