The Midday Talks lecture series is coordinated by Assistant Professor Wei-Han Vivian Lee and is part of the Exploring Design Practice undergraduate course. These lectures are open to the public and registration is not required.

In this talk, Aidan Ackerman will share digital media tools for visualizing and simulating natural systems. Focusing on temporal elements of plant growth, shifting terrain, and the flow of water, he will share professional and academic projects which apply computational principles to the landscape architecture design process.

Aidan's professional and academic work has focused on the intersection of computer technology and landscape architecture design process. He is a faculty member at The Boston Architectural College, where he is the Director of Digital Media and Faculty in the School of Landscape Architecture. Prior to joining the faculty at The Boston Architectural College, Aidan worked with ArtScience Labs as a design mentor. He has worked as part of the Research Computing Environment at The Harvard/MIT Data Center, has been named a research fellow by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and was a teaching fellow at Harvard University. His love of computing is built on six years of experience in information technology, beginning as a hardware technician and advancing over several years to become a senior systems engineer. Aidan maintains an independent computation design and visualization practice, developing models and graphics for international firms within the disciplines of landscape architecture, architecture, interior design, and graphic and industrial design. He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from The Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University.