Dr Ivana Kuzmanovska is Manager of the ARC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing (Arch_Manu). With extensive experience leading interdisciplinary research teams in university settings, Ivana has a strong track record of industry collaboration in applied research. Ivana’s expertise lies in designing for prefabrication and mass timber construction, with a focus on feedback loops between building design and production to drive more sustainable, efficient, and integrated outcomes. She has explored this relationship through architectural research, practice, and teaching, earning recognition for her contributions. In 2020, Ivana was awarded the Mollie Holman Medal for her PhD thesis on DfMA for building design.
Digital is not tools but strategy, organisational and cultural change. As a socio-techno system the adaptation of new tools requires any architecture, design or engineering (ADE) firm to consider a change management system to emphasizes that technology is embedded within and shapes social structures and human behaviour. It is more then simply transition from an incumbent software vendor to another. In our research we work in an industry academic nexus on a comprehensive approach to assist firms in their transition to a future AEC software ecosystem.
(with M. Hank Haeusler)