Design Thinking

Dr Ju Hyun Lee is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Computational Design at UNSW Sydney. He has published over 100 research papers and made significant contributions to the fields of design computing and design cognition. Ju Hyun is Co-Director of Advanced Architectural Analytics lab (A³LAB) and Chair of AKA.Network. He has held multiple academic roles in Australia and South Korea. As a Senior Lecturer, he completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Newcastle and a Senior Research Fellowship at the University of South Australia. He is co-author, with Michael J. Ostwald, of Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture (IGI Global 2020), and co-author, with Michael J. Ostwald and Michael J. Dawes, of Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture (Birkhäuser 2025).

Dr Michael J. Ostwald is Scientia Professor of Architectural Analytics at UNSW Sydney. He has previously been a Distinguished EU Professor, a Professorial Fellow at Victoria University Wellington (New Zealand), an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at Newcastle and a Visiting Fellow at ANU, MIT, HKU and UCLA. He holds adjunct Professorial positions at XJTLU (China) and the University of Liverpool (UK). Michael has a PhD in architectural history and theory and a DSc in design mathematics and computing. He completed postdoctoral research on geometry at the CCA (Canada), UCLA (USA) and Harvard (USA). Michael is Editor-in-Chief of the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics (Springer) and on the editorial boards of ARQ (Cambridge) and Architectural Theory Review (Taylor and Francis). He has authored 19 books and more than 300 research articles and chapters.

Dr Ning Gu is a Professor in Architecture at Adelaide University (anteceded by the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide). He has been a visiting scholar/professor at Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Tianjin University. Professor Gu’s most significant contributions have been to research in design computing and cognition. The outcomes of his research have been documented in over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He has been supported by prestigious Australian research funding schemes from the Australian Research Council, Department of Education, and Cooperative Research Centres. He is an Associate Editor of Architectural Science Review (Taylor & Francis) and has guest edited/chaired major international journals/conferences in the field.