Professor M. Hank Haeusler (PhD) is ARC ITTC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing (Arch_Manu) Director, Lead CI of a CRC-P grant on 3D printing, and Deputy Director UNSW AI Institute. Haeusler was Founding Director of the Computational Design degree at the UNSW Sydney, the world’s first Computational Design bachelor’s degree. As a researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and designer in computational design he authored of 150+ academic publications and raised over A$16M research funding. He also is Head of Research, Foresight and Innovation at Giraffe Technology, a platform for the AEC sectorand has lectured internationally at several universities.
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 Dr Ivana Kuzmanovska)